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[paperbag princess]

for anyone who appreciates the fine coffee at second cup when at home, you'll be happy find out that you can get it here!!!! i freaked out when i found this out. it's not at a second cup, it's in a cafe called "gloria jeans". i went there last week and noticed that they have paridso noir in grains and so a asked the manager if they had stores in canada and she said, "yes, but we have a different name there, it's called second cup." they use the same espresso as well! yayayayayayayay!!!!!!! if you want to buy coffee in grains it's terribly expensive (26,000 for 226g), but the espressos based drinks are the same price as home.

go to gagnam station and go out exit 3. walk to the coffee bean and tea leaf and then cross the street. walk up the street in the same direction you were going and it's on the left in about 5-7 minutes. you could go out the exit opposite exit 3, but i always forget what number it is. i'll check the next time i go.

[Swiss James]

hmm there's a Gloria Jean's at the airport too- I don't know why people get so excited about specific coffee chains, but yeah it tastes pretty good!

[paperbag princess]

second cup is the best! i love it and miss it so much!

[mindmetoo]

Wow. Who knew? Wonder why they didn't use the Second Cup name in Korea? Someone copyrighted it already? I wonder why too they don't use www.starbucks.co.kr. But that's another topic.

I worked at a Second Cup for a few years. All I want to know is do they serve flavored coffee? I miss my chocolate raspberry coffee...

[redbird]

I work in Chicago and we have this one cup at a time coffeemaker at work that lets us choose from among quite a few flavors of coffee. Gloria Jeans' Mudslide flavor is my favorite.

[paperbag princess]

sadly enough, they don't have the chocolate raspberry, but they have irish cream, hazelnut and a few other flavours.
i'm not sure why no branding, i'm going to write them and ask.

[Dawn]

The Gloria Jean's in the basement of Lotte Department Store in Myeong-dong had chocolate raspberry coffee beans last time I was there. Also had butter toffee, caramel cream, and a host of other hard-to-find flavors.

By the way, Gloria Jean's is the name Second Cup uses in the U.S. Why they picked the American name over the Canadian name here is anybody's guess.

[desultude]

Argh! I hate flavored coffee. The worst thing about places like Gloria Jeans is that it doesn't even smell like coffee- it smells like synthetic hazelnut and other artificial "flavors".

Great coffee is like great scotch- don't fudge it up! On the other hand, if the coffee is not so great to begin with, you can always disguise the lack of flavor with fake flavorings.

IMHO

[desultude]

[Dawn]

Gloria Jean's actually sells the only flavored coffees I will drink. Cheap unadulterated coffee is bad enough, but add artificial hazelnut flavoring, and you've got an end product only slightly less palatable than toxic waste.

[drgoo]

Coffee flavored coffee, beer flavored beer, and water flavored water is the only way to go.

[paperbag princess]

while i do prefer a nice dark roast over a flavoured coffee, second cup/gloria jeans has super flavoured coffees. second cup roasts the colombian supremo to a light roast (a 2 roast if that means anything to you). flavoured coffee actually has more caffiene becuase it is roasted shorter and there is more caffiene left in the beans.

i went to the gloria jeans in the hyundia dept store in the coex mall and the gloria jeans is having a coffee sale! i got some para noir for 20,000KRW. yay!

[Homer]

Fine coffee...Second Cup??!!!


Anyone who equates fine coffee with Second Cup needs to take a seminar on what coffee is!

Dishwater perhaps.

Good coffee...not on your life.

[mindmetoo]

[Homer]

If I have to drink coffee from a chain store back home, I would say Starbucks is the least horrible.