I love it. I love what we've done. I love that I can go to Korea, Russia, Brazil, Germany, Ukraine, Canada, Kyrgyzstan, and more and find awesome 3rd wave American style coffee shops. You may hate America but come on... give us fucking credit. These places are awesome.
>>214574465Starbucks is overpriced swill instead of real coffee.
>>214574578I agree. I haven't been to a Starbucks in YEARS besides if I need to at an airport or a rest stop on a road trip. Anyway, starbucks is 2nd wave and was revolutionary when it was founded but quickly became souless and was outpaced by local shops that sprung up in the 2nd wave revolution
>>214574465This is me officially giving you an official credit for officially inventing the official modern coffee shop culture. Officially thank you official Americans.
ottoman era hookah lounges were better
>>214574799Thank you, I appreciate that. Lots of people are afraid to give credit where it's due. I accept your thanks and am forever indebted to Austrians for your contributions to coffee ship culture. The Viennese coffee shop was a great inspiration!The GOATs of Cafe culture:France, Austria, USA, Turkey
>>214574465this looks like someone's house.
id rather go to a tearoom
>>214574876Funny you should mention that... I love Turkish coffee (pic related yesterday)Also, the best place to have Turkish coffee in Europe is Lviv. It's so good and so underrated.
This was my go to in Lviv >>214574903Correct, that's actually very common in a lot of Brazilian 3rd waves. It's either minimalistic/sleek or it feels like you're in some grandma's house in Minas Gerais. Next pic I post I can show you an example.Also, I noticed in Brazil lots would have like a sleek modern half then a second room that felt like a house
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>>214574465If someone burned all of these establishment down with their patrons still in them I would enjoy that very much
>>214574465So, what is the difference between a generic cafe and a "3rd wave American style coffee shop"?
>>214574465Ugly people like me can't even go to Starbucks. All the Starbucks staff are good-looking.so i hate em..
>>214575337Wow... why are you like that?>>214575387Basically any of those sleek modern minimal cafes you see in Sweden are 3rd wave American cafes. European coffee shop culture was very French and Austrian until the 90s when it became Americanized. If they're selling cold brews and shit like that it's american 3rd wave. If the beans have tasting notes or come from specialty farms it's 3rd wave. 2nd wave would be the kind of mass roasted coffee slop you get BUT the ambience tries to be a bit more sophisticated and you get more choices than you would in road stop 1st wave coffee shops or "diner" coffee
>>214575470Fair enough, don't think I've ever been in 3rd wave cafe.Then again I barely visit any cafes to begin with since they are all so utterly pointless.
>>214575438based spiteful uggo
>>214575438Starbucks is shit anyway. Tokyo and Seoul are both coffee shop meccas why go to starbucks?
>>214575542It's a good place to go read, work, and meet people. Some have the atmosphere of everybody off in their own world. But some of the smaller ones remind me of a pub where everybody knows everybody and we talk and play chess or poker etc. But it's going to depend and maybe in Sweden that's less the case and it's more of a "go study on your own" which are also nice at times.Yes even in small towns deep in South America the coffee shop revolution is happening. There's no point in fighting it.
>>214575674What's your opinion on Aussie coffee culture burger coffeeautist anon?
>>214576862Never been :( But I imagine it is pretty similar to the US/Canada which is to say I bet it's pretty good with every small town having at least one cozy coffee shop and the cities having tons of options
>>214574465>>214574634>>214574896>>214574985All of that seems a bit inauthentic, almost a themed café... they are themed cafés: generic and disposable eclectic style, poorly executed from upper-class neighborhoods, lacking personality. I'm not saying it's wrong (business is business) but it lacks soul.Come to Valpo, in Chile (pic)
>>214578860>Chilean coffee shopsLast time I went to a Chilean coffee shop I ended up with a lapdance and a girl asking me to go to the back room with her lmfao not even kidding
>>214578860true. it looks like something that could be designed by a consultant in a week following a manual. it's all about being trendy, and it could probably be closed in a few years and replaced by other theme cafe.
