2025 Year in Review: Best of ‘Design Details’

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In 2025, some of the most memorable coffee-centered design projects were clearly built around the feelings designers wanted to inspire among guests — comfort and belonging, wonder and spectacle, clarity…

Roasting
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2025 Year In Review: New Coffee Roasting Equipment and Tech

Roasteries large and small grew increasingly full of hot air this year, with multiple innovations emerging from makers of fluid-bed coffee roasting equipment. Artificial intelligence also continued its unrelenting flood…

Roasting
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Here Are 26 New Roasters to Support in 2026

2025 was an exceptionally weird year to start a coffee roasting business in the United States.  Coffee prices were already elevated, pushed by climate change, labor constraints, higher production costs…

Roasting
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2025 Year in Review: Coffee Business News

Underneath the dark cloud of tariffs that hung over the coffee industry for much of the year, the business of specialty coffee carried on at a breakneck pace.  Among the…

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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the Midwest

The Midwest showed up in 2025 with new coffee shops blending menu inventiveness and creative programming with earnest and sincere service. The openings in this list include roasters expanding into…

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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the US Northeast

From an Art Deco icon in Manhattan to a comedy club doorstep in Brooklyn, this year’s Northeast coffee shop openings reminded us that great coffee is a welcome luxury anywhere. …

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Coffee From Burundi Finds a Welcoming Home in Detroit at Soko by Baobab Fare

  Former asylum seekers turned restaurateurs are extending a Burundi-to-Detroit pipeline of food, culture and coffee through Soko by Baobab Fare. Hamissi Mamba and his wife, Nadia Nijimbere, arri

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Reflections on 1 Million Coffee Farmers Trained with TechnoServe Coffee Head Paul Stewart (Part 2)

  This is part two of a two-part interview with Paul Stewart, the global coffee director for TechnoServe. The nonprofit recently announced it has helped train more than 1 million smallholder

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Coffee From Burundi Finds a Welcoming Home in Detroit at Soko by Baobab Fare

  Former asylum seekers turned restaurateurs are extending a Burundi-to-Detroit pipeline of food, culture and coffee through Soko by Baobab Fare. Hamissi Mamba and his wife, Nadia Nijimbere, arrived in…

Roasting
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Reflections on 1 Million Coffee Farmers Trained with TechnoServe Coffee Head Paul Stewart (Part 1)

  TechnoServe, one of the longest-running and farthest-reaching nonprofits operating in the coffee sector, recently announced it has helped train more than 1 million smallholder coffee farmers.&#

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