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Popular North End gourmet shop carries dozens of international coffees, plus hundreds of teas, spices, extracts and garden seeds.
Posted by Contributor
on April 21, 2009, (Edited November 29, 2005)
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love this place. unfortunately most the time i go to north end on sunday and they are closed. but this place is a rare gem and one of the many reasons i love the north end so very much. very old school, nice guys in a top of the line coffee shop. the espresso i always get here cannot be beat!
Pros
+ fantastic
Cons
- closed sunday
Posted by gambino
on November 04, 2009
Do yourself a favor and go see Bobby at Polcari's. I live in California and have expresso beans shipped cross country or pick up them up myself on my frequent visits to Boston.
Pros
+ great high-quality coffee beans, friendly, NOT Starbucks
Posted by ScubaJohnHB
on April 21, 2009, (Edited January 03, 2009)
Polcari's feels as though it belongs to another time, when people headed down to the corner shop to pick up their dry goods and shoot the breeze with their neighbors, rather than jumping into the Land Rover and heading to Whole Foods. At Polcari's, you can find almost every kind of spice, loose teas, coffee beans and dried fruit, and so of course it smells wonderful inside. The prices are also...
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Posted by RyanRose
on April 21, 2009, (Edited December 20, 2008)