It’s that time of year: Cityview’s annual Best Of Des Moines survey!
Please take a moment to show your support of your favorite local coffee shop. Vote Mars Cafe for Best Coffee, Best Coffeehouse and for any other categories you feel applicable.
Here’s the link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/bestofdsm2011
Or find it on: dmcityview.com
Thanks for your ever-loyal support and love,
~M
It’s coming…
We’re doing it again! And thank GAWD! We have had so much fun at the previous Des Moines Cranksgiving events that we had to bring it back.
You bring a fun attitude and your bike (road, cross, hybrid, or mountain) and we’ll provide you with a map of local stores and a list of 12 items to buy around the Des Moines area (one item per store).
All products purchased for the event will be donated to DMARC and The Pet Project. There will be top prizes, such as a gift certificate to Yankee Doodle Tattoo, as well as a raffle for a new bike! If you have any questions, please email Sara Broek at blondie2950@gmail.com.
We hope to see your happy holiday faces!
November 21, 2010
1 p.m.
Mars Cafe
Be there or be square
Join YPC for its monthly get together where there will be social networking and complimentary appetizers.
We’ll be visiting a great Drake neighborhood location: Mars Cafe. Appetizers will be provided from nearby Jethro’s BBQ!
Featured organizations: Drake Connect and a food drive! (more details to come)
For more information, please click here.
Join Mars Baristas Matt & Dan as they taste coffees from all over the world using a variety of brewing methods. Plus the tasting is totally free!
We’ll sample coffees using alternate brewing methods that you can use at home: everything from auto-drip to pour-over to french press.
Coffee tastings are every Saturday at 9am.
Facebook event: here
The last days of summer 2010 are upon us. And although the tomatoes and fresh produce from the spring and summer have been fantastic, we are gearing up for the hearty foods and earthy produce (onion, squash, etc) of the late summer and fall. We’re also enjoying the last stock of summery beers – so stop in after work and grab one before they’re gone.
Stop in to grab the last stock of New Belgium’s Skinny Dip summer ale or Summit Brewery’s Hefe-Weizen for $3 any time of day.
If you love Mars, share your thoughts with the Des Moines Register for their upcoming “Insider’s Guide to Des Moines.”
Simply visit www.DesMoinesRegister.com/insidersguide to submit your “insider” tip online.
Hello All,
My name is Sam and I will be your narrator and guide for a little coffee education and cycling discussion here on the Mars Cafe site. I work in a local kitchen and do a little food blog and a cycling blog, but sometimes I really want to branch out and do something different so last week I threw a tweet out on um…Twitter asking if anyone would like me to guest post on their blogs and LJ heeded the call. We met for lunch along with the Matt S and hammered out this idea:
You see, I am by trade a chef/cook type worker and I have accumulated a pretty large knowledge base in the food-ular and wine-ular areas, but my coffee knowledge is right up there with many line cooks. In the kitchen, coffee is what gets the day started and keeps you firing on at least most cylinders as the work piles up and orders roll in. In this arena just about any coffee will do, and I have even seen some of my more out of control co-homies mix their coffee with ENERGY DRINKS in the SAME CUP. And somehow they are still alive…
So it was decided that I will be learning about the finer points and intricacies of Coffee and Coffee Culture then conveying my experience to you, the tens of readers out there. Oh, and the biking… the biking…
Mars has some rather rabid cyclists/cycling fans in their employ and coffee customer crowd. Mars has also hosted Cranksgiving, an “alleycat” race to fight hunger, for three years and recently Jameson um…I mean Graham (so sorry guys, I always seem to mix you up, even in the enchanted land of the Inderwebs) of Mars Cafe organized another benefit Caffeine Crawl. These guys have some fun and interesting bike stuff coming up and I look forward to bringing you said cycling news.
I might even try to make it funny or entertaining. hmmm…..
Sam
Turncoat Puppeteering. A collection of works by JPLAYY (Jonathan Pearson) and Ragz (Rachel Vorm).
These two locally grown artists will be showing a collection of their works July 1 through August 31.
Come check out their opening show on July 24th at 7pm.
Thursday, June 3, 2020
7:00 – 9:30 pm
Mars Cafe
Records and fun with David Bess of Public Property. Come in for a special Scented Vinyl at 7pm, Thursday June 3rd.
“Public Property has a sound that is full-tilt reggae even though they don’t try to sing in fake patois and write original material that actually sounds original. Lots of syncopated rhythm breaks, bursts of pure groove and passionate musical interludes flesh out songs written by various band members…” -The Beat Magazine
The DMMC’s free music business education series, Music University will hold a session on Making Money in the Music Industry on Wednesday, June 2 at 6:30pm at Mars Café.
The session will discuss how artists, bands, and labels can leverage the new music business model to make money. Various strategies will be discussed including creative product offerings, providing merch options for multiple levels of fans, finding success with crowdfunding, garnering worthwhile sponsorships, developing licensing opportunities, and many more. Come to network and share ideas!
Panelists:
Sleep on the Floor, Austin Semerad and Cassie Semerad
On Pitch, Jill Haverkamp and Hillary Brown
Music University is a free music business education series designed to provide artists and industry professionals advice on making a living through music in Central Iowa. Local and regional experts lead panel discussions covering a wide variety of topics of interest to anyone trying to move ahead in the music industry.
