The Thinking Cup Blog — Boston

If you’re hoping to find one of the best coffee shops in Boston, but aren’t sure where to start, we’ve created a quick guide discussing things you should look for. Do you hear a grinder running? If you don’t hear a grinder running for each drinking, especially if the majority of drinks on the menu are espressos, it’s a bad sign. A barista that doesn’t ground fresh coffee for each cup is likely brewing stale grounds for their espressos, which is not something you want to drink. Does the coffee shop strive to promote coffee education to those who want...

Thinking Cup is pleased to be the first coffee shop in Downtown Boston to serve "Stumptown Coffee" exclusively. Stumptown, originating in Portland Oregon had been named "Best Coffee in the World" by NPR, The New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine, and USA Today. To ensure exceptional quality and freshness we obtain our beans directly from Stumptown's roasting facility in Brooklyn, New York.

Boston is home to a plethora of coffee shops, varying from chains to artisanal, but if you’ve ever gone on the hunt for a truly phenomenal cup of coffee you know that not all coffee shops are created equal. What distinguishes the top coffee shops in Boston from the rest? Thinking Cup has put a lot of time and energy into determining what makes a top coffee shop better than the rest, striving to remain worthy of this distinction. Having continually been voted one of the top coffee shops in Boston, we’re happy to share what we think those looking...

Boston loves its coffee, but unfortunately it hasn’t always been easy to find a truly wonderful cup of coffee in the city. That all changed in 2010 when Thinking Cup opened its doors and coffee lovers around the city of Boston sighed with relief after visiting what is arguably the best coffee shop in Boston. From hundreds of positive yelp reviews brimming with enthusiasm to the many articles and blog posts published to celebrate its impressive offerings, it’s obvious that Thinking Cup has made a special place for itself in the hearts of Boston coffee lovers across the city. While...

For those new to the concept of Third Wave Coffee, you may wonder what it really means. Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold said the following on this subject back in March of 2008, “The first wave of American coffee culture was probably the 19th-century surge that put Folgers on every table, and the second was the proliferation, starting in the 1960s at Peet's and moving smartly through the Starbucks grande decaf latte, of espresso drinks and regionally labeled coffee. We are now in the third wave of coffee connoisseur-ship, where beans are sourced from farms instead of countries, roasting is about bringing out rather than incinerating the unique characteristics of each bean, and the flavor is clean and hard and pure.