Comments on: La Prima Espresso

By: peterb

peterb — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:34:57 +0000

Buon Giorno is still there, and in fact they’ve opened two other storefronts, one in the Strip District and one in Market Square. Their coffee has gone downhill since you were in town, for some reason I can’t quite quantify, but they have continued their fine tradition of having really yummy if mildly overpriced food served by incredibly hot waitresses with foreign accents.

Come visit Pittsburgh. We’ll find old Italian guys to hit on you. (Hmmm, I sense a new city motto….! Maybe this is why I’m not in marketing).

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:05:49 +0000

I don’t know if it’s still there, but 7 or 8 years ago there was an Italian cafe called Buon Giorno on Smithfield Street, about a half a block from the Smithfield Street bridge. I wasn’t an Italian teacher but the old Italian guys used to hit on me anyway. And they did a proper espresso and fabulous cappucino. And had great sweets and wonderful lunches, too. I miss that place! Tokyo’s got nothing like it.

By: JonathanH

JonathanH — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 06:02:05 +0000

Yes, but it’s worse than that – you’ve got to find a morning person who *also* pulls a good espresso!

It sort of explains why everyone’s buying super-automatic espresso machines…

By: StewartC

StewartC — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:56:48 +0000

You’re touching on what I call the Morning Coffee Paradox: how to make/acquire that first coffee you need to wake you up if you’re not already awake?

Living with a morning person is probably the best way.

By: JonathanH

JonathanH — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:00:08 +0000

The perfect cup of coffee is the first of the morning, ten minutes after you wake up.

Now, you can be like psu and spend those 10 minutes driving madly into town to reach La Prima, or you can be like me and spend those 10 minutes in silent contemplation of your Rancilio Silvia, begging it to heat up just that little bit faster.