HAMPTON Blue Harbor Coffee will be in a informal spotlight on NESN’s Wicked Bites in a entrance weeks after being named second-best coffee in New Hampshire.
Blue Harbor owners Coskun Yazgan, of Stratham, pronounced he got a call about appearing on a uncover shortly after his emporium was voted second in WMUR’s annual Viewers’ Choice foe in a difficulty for best coffee. The formula were announced Feb. 13, and a emporium will now seem in a Wicked Bites shred in a subsequent 3 weeks. The uncover facilities a best places for food and splash opposite New England.
“We are really appreciative,” pronounced Yazgan, who non-stop his emporium in downtown Hampton around Thanksgiving. He pronounced he felt propitious that Wicked Bites, that mostly facilities bars and restaurants, was meddlesome in entrance to a coffee shop.
Show creator and horde Scott Whitley visited Blue Harbor a week ago to talk Yazgan and learn about his in-house roasting process, that Yazgan pronounced is a pivotal to portion peculiarity coffee. They shot footage of Yazgan roasting beans alien from places like Ethiopia, Peru and Papua New Guinea, as good as Blue Harbor barista Maddie Perrow creation lattes behind a counter.
Yazgun feels advantageous to get New England-wide courtesy in reduction than 3 months of being open. Earlier in February, he put a pointer on his opposite enlivening congregation to opinion for his emporium in a WMUR contest. They placed Blue Harbor second usually to Lucas Roasting Co. in Wolfeboro, a list also including Flight Coffee Co. of Dover and Bedford in fourth place.
“Our viewers adore all a choices of creatively roasted coffee accessible during Blue Harbor Coffee,” WMUR wrote in a online essay announcing a winners.
Yazgun comes from a prolonged line of coffee emporium owners that goes behind roughly 100 years to Istanbul, Turkey, where he was born. His hermit Yalcin has been using Caffe Kilim in Portsmouth given 1993.
Yazgun is a initial in his family to indeed fry his possess beans, a routine he pronounced requires attentiveness and patience. He stands during his spit in a behind of a store as a beans prepare inside, spasmodic sketch out a few to smell and examine. Letting them fry too prolonged or during a wrong heat will leave them tasting bitter, he said.
Yazgun is now operative on removing his coffee sole in stores around a Seacoast, as good as removing to a indicate where his emporium can run but him being there each singular day. While he is vehement to get into a indiscriminate market,Yazgun pronounced his emporium will sojourn his priority and passion. He believes his niche has turn portion workman coffee in a relaxing cafeteria where people accumulate possibly for waste or socialization.
“Everyone comes and enjoys assent and quiet, a small cafeteria music,” pronounced Yazgun. “There is a sorcery to it.”