Foodie Fridays — 12 Onzas Coffee House
12 Onzas is the newest specialty coffee shop in Antigua Guatemala. They only serve coffee from their family coffee plantation Concepción Buena …
Guatemalan Tamales for Christmas
In Guatemala, Christmas is a family day; an occasion for strengthening the family bonds. Christmas is also a feast day full of …
Coffee harvesting season is fast approaching to Antigua Guatemala
Would you like to see more coffee photos and learn more about the coffee from Guatemala? Take a photographic tour through these …
Caffè Mocha with Cardamom now available in Antigua Guatemala
Just as 4a calle poniente has turned into fast-food alley, Alameda Santa Lucía is becoming the coffee shop boulevard. Aria Coffee Shop …
Co-Working Spaces in Antigua Guatemala
Even though there’s one co-working space company in Antigua Guatemala, many people still prefer to use coffee shops and restaurants as co-working …
Street Photography in Antigua Guatemala — Coffee Lovers
Let’s begin the 5-day countdown to the 11th anniversary of AntiguaDailyPhoto with a miniseries of street photography slices of daily life through …
Indiscreet Window — Coffee Makes Us Happy
La Antigua Guatemala is so full with quaint cafes and restaurants where one can enjoy the company of friends and a cup …
Indiscreet Window — The Reader’s Refuge
Cafes have always been a great location for reading, especially if you’re sitting a window with lots of natural light or in …
Maya Portraits — Maya Woman Harvesting Coffee
This is a behind the scenes picture of a recent photo session I helped to set up for a photographer from abroad. …
Meet The Antigua Guatemala Baristas
Through the Antigua Coffee Tasting tours I hope to introduce passionate baristas of Antigua Guatemala and what their strong coffee preparation methods …
Antigua Coffee Tasting Tours FTW!
At the Antigua Coffee Tasting tours we will learn and taste what are the best coffee preparation methods according to the coffee …
Tasting The Best Guatemalan Coffees
What’s the best method to enjoy the premium Guatemalan coffees? Should you go for an espresso shot or a French pressed cup …
Antigua Guatemala Coffee Houses
We are so fortunate to have over a dozen delightful coffee houses in La Antigua Guatemala; each with its own flare and …
Coffee Shops Are The Original Co-Working Spaces
Coffee houses had been and still are the premier co-working spaces in Antigua Guatemala, especially when there’s a plentiful supply of delicious …
Coffee Makes Me Happy
If coffee makes you happy, you must move to Antigua Guatemala where you can enjoy all aspects of coffee-rich life, from the …
Coffee Culture in Antigua Guatemala
We’re fortune to have a rich and abundant coffee culture in Antigua Guatemala, don’t you agree? Follow the white rabbit to » …
Coffee + WiFi in Antigua Guatemala
Back in the day when cyber cafes started back in the U.S., I always wondered why they were called cyber cafes when …
Bella Vista Baristas
Well well, well if you think baristas are all men, then you got it wrong. As you can see here, the baristas …
Coffee Refugees Here’s Your Refuge
Those coffee refugees looking for shelter from bad coffee, look no more, Antigua Guatemala is the coffee lovers refuge with its many …
Irish Coffee from Fat Cat Coffee House
If you prefer prepared fancy coffees, such as mochaccinos, Irish coffee, Lattés, et cetera, we have that too in many cafes in …
Coffee plus Dessert, Anyone, Anyone?
Of course, sometimes one craves dessert to go along with coffee, right? How about a slice of mango pie with coffee from …
Coffee Trivia from Guatemala
The first time we “officially” drunk coffee in Guatemala was in 1743 for the celebration of the conversion of the Catedral de …
Antigua Guatemala’s Passionate Baristas
We are so fortunate in Antigua Guatemala to have so many dedicated and passionate baristas who are committed to serve the best …
Barista Coffee Culture in Antigua Guatemala
Okay, there are three different kinds of venues where to get coffee in Antigua Guatemala. The first coffee venue type, you order …
Coffee and Wi-Fi Are Us
I don’t know if you can find another place on Earth that has more coffee shops and public access Wi-Fi hotspots per …
Coffee Props
I really like all the coffee props or decoration found in the many coffee houses in Antigua Guatemala. This antique weight scale …
Visiting the Motherland never gets old
The recently anointed “abuelito” to my first born, took us three (my girlfriend, my daughter, and I) to Finca Filadelfia where we …
How would you like your W.B.C. Guatemalan coffee prepared?
I don’t know if this is old news to you, but I will share it anyway just in case some of you …
What Makes Coffee from Antigua Guatemala So Incredible
Volcanic soil, the perfect amount rain and sunshine and shadow, temperate weather, 5,000 to 6,500 feet altitude above sea level and to …
Coffee and Cupolas
If you live in or around Antigua Guatemala you get used to coffee farms, coffee lots and coffee orchards and cupolas very …
The Best Cup of Coffee in Antigua Guatemala
Interesting enough I had visited Hector’s and Tretto Caffé within the last week and I had uploaded yesterday’s and today’s photos to …
Guatemalan Christmas Food
Among the most popular foods found for dinner in Christmas Eve and during Christmas are tamales colorados (red tamales), tamales negros (black …
Coffee and Post Card Writing Time
This was the very first time I became aware of the location of the table with the antique map on top. The …
Breakfasts At Sabe Rico
Sabe Rico Restaurant, Chocolatería & Delicatessen is a great place to have delicious and nutritious breakfasts in La Antigua Guatemala. The range …
Coffee Tours in Antigua Guatemala
Coffee spawns a new industry around Antigua Guatemala: Coffee tours. It was only a matter of time before the coffee plantations open …
Coffee and Volcanoes Around Antigua Guatemala
On the road to San Juan del Obispo you can find this view, where you can see a coffee plantation in the …
Sunday Mornings Begin with Coffee and Online Newspapers
Oh there’s nothing better than a great cup of Guatemalan coffee and the online newspapers to begin a Sunday Morning. I normally …
Guatemalan Coffees Are Truly Green
Today, I continue learning about the Guatemalan coffees. In the past I have mention how I thought coffee plantations were beneficial for …
The Hands That Rock the Coffee
These are the hands the rock the coffee berries off the branches swiftly, almost effortlessly it seemed. There’s something about these hands …
Coffee Colors
In Spanish we use the word café to mean coffee and brown. Coffee berries, however, begin their color palette lifecycle as green …
Guatemalan Weekend Tamal Breakfast
Here’s what a typical Sunday morning Guatemalan breakfast may look like. I say Sunday morning breakfast because normally one can only find …
Coffee, Bagels and Free Wifi
The Bagel Barn is a popular venue in La Antigua Guatemala for getting a bagel sandwich, great coffee and checking your email. …
Coffee Field Behind the San Lazaro Cemetery
Come on, just because you’re dead it doesn’t mean you can not have access to good coffee. This coffee field is right …
Time to harvest the coffee in La Antigua Guatemala
So what makes La Antigua Guatemala the best coffee in the world? To get the best cup of coffee of the world, one must start with the right altitude; somewhere above 1,500 meters above the sea level; add lots of fertile volcanic soil; mix in plenty of rain (about six months); stable temperate weather (about 75˚ F / 25˚ C); once you have the above, make sure you plant the best possible Arabica coffee.
Coffee Harvest Time in Guatemala
Yesterday’s photo was a close-up of the coffee bush in the lower left corner of today’s photo. If you click on the image above you can the coffee bushes (the small trees) being harvested under the shadows of the Gravilea trees in San Pedro Las Huertas, La Antigua Guatemala. Around La Antigua Guatemala you can find coffee bushes everywhere, including as part of the hedges of La Compañía de Jesús ruins.
The Coffee Colors
The other day we heard many voices on the other side of the fence; voices of children and women just talking and laughing. We approached the windows on the second floor to see what was all the commotion; then we saw men, women and children harvesting the coffee. At this moment, you can see the turning point of coffee from green to golden yellow and finally cherry red.
Guateflora: Coffee Bushes used as Hedge
We continue our Guateflora series with the omnipresent coffee bush or tree, which has manage to leave the coffee plantation to become a hedge. The coffee bush is one the most often seen plants around La Antigua Guatemala, but not often I’ve seen it used as hedge. The above photograph was taken at the Compañía de Jesús building, with the ruins in the background.