Coffee & Reading the morning paper

• Local/DC: This Sunday, take a Virtual Embassy Row Chocolate tour!
• Local/DC: Did you hear? Laderach Swiss chocolatier is coming to Union Station in 2021 🙂
• Local/DC/Trending: “No amount of powdered sugar can hide the disappointment of Popeyes’ chocolate beignets“… by The Washington Post
• Wanderlust/Trending: King koi coffee gardens are trending. These are coffee shops that also have koi ponds. Look at the pictures of these koi cafe spaces in Saigon, Vietnam. #wanderlust
• Looking for another coffee podcast?: Try COFFEA. We just listened to this episode.

Quote for the weekend

“Resist the need to worry, robbing everything of immediacy and peace.

Resist traveling except where you want to go. Resist seeing yourself in others or them in you. Nothing, everything, is personal.”

Louise Erdrich

Some chocolate dessert

• Looking for some holiday decor or recipe inspiration? We had fun making this Pinterest board, “winter holiday coffee/cocoa vibes” (click below)

• Holiday-related recipe: How to make the perfect English tea scone!! 🙂
• Holiday-related recipe: Just looking at these s’mores muddy buddies is making me hungry.
• Holiday shopping ideas: “Merry chocolate!” Still need some holiday gift ideas? Have you seen this tiny book of chocolate (yum)! How about this cozy throw? Or his triple moon choker necklace?

your Coffee shop outfit

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Have a lovely weekend.

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