Cafe Unido sells great coffee. But the Panamanian food is spectacular.

Given the job of creating a breakfast menu for the hungry, harried D.C. customer, Jovana Urriola could have thrown bacon, eggs and cheese into a tortilla and called it a wrap. But at Cafe Unido in Shaw, the industrious Panamanian chef is brimming with bigger ideas. Urriola’s version tucks in a sofrito aioli, mashed avocado, […]

Nescafé con grano panameño

The Nescafé brand presents a coffee bean from Piedra Candela, Renacimiento – Chiriquí, directly from the Eleta coffee plantation.

Un fenómeno cafetero: cómo un hombre encuentra (y vende) los mejores granos de café del mundo.

FROM OUR HILLTOP vantage point in northern Panama, Costa Rica is visible to the west and Volcán Barú, Panama’s tallest mountain, to the east. A canopy of rain forest stretches to the horizon, and it feels as if we’re walking through untamed wilderness. The only hint otherwise is a gang of coffee pickers in rubber boots, huddled together and sifting through the day’s harvest. “You can’t know this place until you know the forest,” says the farm’s founder, Joseph Brodsky, gesturing at the view before us. “This is where the flavor comes from.”