Finally! The Coffee Disappoint Tour de Boise has ended. It took some searching. This place is new and has no web page and no twitter, but as soon as we walked in and ordered, I knew we were going to get too coffee.
The Crux opened in January, serves Stumptown beans, has been trained by Stumptown people and, by far, has the best coffee in Boise (that we have found). The Baristas do it “by the book”- weigh the amount of ground coffee, purge the machine, pull 25 sec shots that equal 2 oz, and taste the coffee they make. Not one place in Boise, that we have visited, has done either of these steps.
The only thing that would make Crux better, in the espresso department, is if they used different espresso–the Hairbender is a little too citrus-y for me (I don’t like fruit in my espresso). I’ve been to The Crux two days in a row and I’ll be back.
Crema Espresso 