Cofffee with siphon

Can anyone recommend restaurants that serve coffee with the Siphon method? Basically it's brewing coffee with a vacuum. The device has two glass globes and water is heated in the bottom globe and forced up into the grounds which sit in the top globe. The brew then descends back to the first globe. I've had coffee this way in Japan, Taiwan, and China. The result is a strong delicious relatively sediment-free brew. And watching the coffee brew is fun too! Like a chemistry experiment.

[GoodEatz]

Here's a place that recently opened. All coffee is siphoned and you can choose which bean you want all the way up to the expensive Jamaica's Blue Mountain.

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UCC Coffee Shop
1569 Fairway Dr, Walnut, CA 91789

[Akitist]

UCC's a big coffee company in Japan. There might be a connection. Some years back I heard the all the Blue Mountain was sold to the Japanese, so it may be so.

[hoops225]

Cafe Balcony in West LA serves siphon coffee.

http://www.cafebalcony.com/

[peanut112]

I can't be sure but I would check out both Intelligentsia in Silverlake and the soon to open Lamill Coffee in Silverlake. I'm absolutely sure at least one of them will/do use the siphon method.

[jgomer]

Funnel Mill in Santa Monica does it this way. http://www.funnelmill.com/coffee.html

[ristretto]

Thanks jgomer! Never knew this place existed. Reminds me of my time in Taiwan where I visited coffeehouses with vacuum brewing and teahouses in the northern mountains. A trip is imminent!

BTW, Intelligentsia does not vacuum brew - it's too labor intensive and they are busy enough with the Clover and espresso.

I know one can purchase coffee siphons either on-line or at Sur La Table. There they sell a stove-top Bodum Santos for reasonable price (about $40). And you can also purchase a spirit burner lamp if you want to do it tableside. I'm thinking of buying one of these and if I do, will let you all know how it works. Restaurants though? I don't know.

Too bad no one knows about siphon coffee--I miss it, too but don't know where to go, either.