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Pre-Starbucks - Tiger46 - 05-29-2014 01:59 PM

What was the best coffee shop in Memphis?

I'm not endorsing Starbucks as the best, but you get the picture.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - JTiger - 05-29-2014 02:31 PM

Deliberate Literate on Union was my favorite

RE: Pre-Starbucks - oldmangrizz - 05-29-2014 03:29 PM

Dobb's House (later CK's) on Quince at Perkins

RE: Pre-Starbucks - fsquid - 05-29-2014 04:03 PM

you mean there was a time before Starbucks?

RE: Pre-Starbucks - Tiger46 - 05-29-2014 04:26 PM

(05-29-2014 04:03 PM)fsquid Wrote: you mean there was a time before Starbucks?

in a galaxy far, far away

RE: Pre-Starbucks - Tiger46 - 05-29-2014 04:26 PM

(05-29-2014 03:29 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote: Dobb's House (later CK's) on Quince at Perkins

Exactly the one I had in mind. Second was the one in Germantown.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - oldmangrizz - 05-30-2014 06:29 AM

(05-29-2014 04:26 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:
(05-29-2014 03:29 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote: Dobb's House (later CK's) on Quince at Perkins

Exactly the one I had in mind. Second was the one in Germantown.

That's scary.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - BinghamptonNed - 05-30-2014 08:22 AM

(05-29-2014 04:03 PM)fsquid Wrote: you mean there was a time before Starbucks?

Of course there was .. Starbucks did not invent time , they only invented coffee.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - Tiger46 - 05-30-2014 08:58 AM

(05-30-2014 06:29 AM)oldmangrizz Wrote:
(05-29-2014 04:26 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:
(05-29-2014 03:29 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote: Dobb's House (later CK's) on Quince at Perkins

Exactly the one I had in mind. Second was the one in Germantown.

That's scary.

My bad, I was actually thinking about the one near Eastgate.

Our office used to be in the Quince/Perkins area and I'm sure I was in that one a time or two.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - Cletus - 05-31-2014 01:45 PM

(05-29-2014 04:26 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:
(05-29-2014 04:03 PM)fsquid Wrote: you mean there was a time before Starbucks?

in a galaxy far, far away

RE: Pre-Starbucks - supertiger - 05-31-2014 03:51 PM

Republic is the best in town now. I'll admit I haven't tried Cafe Eclectic so I might be wrong.

High Point was pretty good. I usually swing by when I'm in Oxford.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - JTiger - 06-02-2014 07:17 AM

(05-31-2014 03:51 PM)supertiger Wrote: Republic is the best in town now. I'll admit I haven't tried Cafe Eclectic so I might be wrong.

High Point was pretty good. I usually swing by when I'm in Oxford.

I love Republic but the next time you are on South Main downtown try Bluff City Coffee. It's all espresso based and really good.

More really good ones downtown are Tamp & Tap and Cafe Keough.

Lots of good choices for the caffeine addicted who live or work downtown.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - MemphisNate - 06-02-2014 10:23 AM

Ugly Mug at Poplar&Highland was good in the late 90s/early 00s.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - ksigtigerdood - 06-02-2014 12:17 PM

(05-31-2014 01:45 PM)Cletus Wrote:
(05-29-2014 04:26 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:
(05-29-2014 04:03 PM)fsquid Wrote: you mean there was a time before Starbucks?

in a galaxy far, far away

That might be my new favorite GIF

RE: Pre-Starbucks - yakko - 06-02-2014 01:15 PM

(06-02-2014 10:23 AM)MemphisNate Wrote: Ugly Mug at Poplar&Highland was good in the late 90s/early 00s.

Seconded. I really miss that place.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - poppaslaw - 06-03-2014 09:25 AM

Shoney's.

#nuffsaid

RE: Pre-Starbucks - Tiger46 - 06-03-2014 10:16 AM

(06-03-2014 09:25 AM)poppaslaw Wrote: Shoney's.

#nuffsaid

I worked for Shoney's for about four years, and it was a great coffee hang out. Lots of regulars.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - Chi-Town - 06-03-2014 08:53 PM

(05-29-2014 03:29 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote: Dobb's House (later CK's) on Quince at Perkins

Wasn't that place Steak and Egg back when? I know we visited whatever it was called back then very often in the early to mid-eighties....if we didn't go to Krystal on Getwell....

RE: Pre-Starbucks - oldmangrizz - 06-04-2014 06:34 AM

(06-03-2014 08:53 PM)Chi-Town Wrote:
(05-29-2014 03:29 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote: Dobb's House (later CK's) on Quince at Perkins

Wasn't that place Steak and Egg back when? I know we visited whatever it was called back then very often in the early to mid-eighties....if we didn't go to Krystal on Getwell....

That's it too. I think it was Steak and Egg after Dobb's House and then CK's.

RE: Pre-Starbucks - Tiger46 - 06-05-2014 09:09 AM

(06-04-2014 06:34 AM)oldmangrizz Wrote:
(06-03-2014 08:53 PM)Chi-Town Wrote:
(05-29-2014 03:29 PM)oldmangrizz Wrote: Dobb's House (later CK's) on Quince at Perkins

Wasn't that place Steak and Egg back when? I know we visited whatever it was called back then very often in the early to mid-eighties....if we didn't go to Krystal on Getwell....

That's it too. I think it was Steak and Egg after Dobb's House and then CK's.

Dobbs and Steak & Egg evolved from Fred Smith's father and Toddle House.