Soho Cafe

Corner P and 23rd St

Washington DC

If you were a gambler, and had the ability to predict the future, think of the possibilities. You could essentially avoid bad circumstance. Therefore I’m blaming my current coffee “losing streak”, to borrow from sporting parlance, on the sheer lack of a crystal ball. Unfortunately even the CaFFeind can’t provide any Oracle like guidance how to get out of my current sad-state of coffee affairs. With that lead in, you’d already be guessing that my recent trip to Soho Cafe was not a great coffee experience. While 2008 was the year of surprised caffeine promise, 2009 is proving to be the year of the broken coffee heart.

I hesitate to ever use the word swill. It’s far too strongly denouncing of a beverage and has implications of a piggery that typically doesn’t fit the atmosphere of a cafe, particularly this one. However, what I can I say is that the “espresso” I received was a sloppy, watery, half-cup of nasty sour coffee. Frankly, I would have preferred to consume a cup of white vinegar. Despite plenty of notable exceptions in Washington, I’m not sure if the general lack of espresso ability I encounter on a day to day basis is because Americans prefer brewed coffee, or the reason they do. Either way, I’m seriously considering joining the ranks of Atomic owners…..

No beans