CoffeeRatings.com in this month’s San Francisco magazine
Posted by TheShot on 25 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Local Brew
A shout out to CoffeeRatings.com in the March 2006 issue of San Francisco magazine (page 40): THE HOT SPOTS – One-shot wonders – San Francisco magazine. (Update: someone thankfully posted a graphical version of the print story as well.)
Friends in the area have asked me since this article was published, “Did you really walk 500 miles?” What? And take MUNI instead? Even after then-mayor Willie Brown proved that it is about as fast as walking … and yet far more dangerous?
Truth be known, I have a collection of used Fast Passes dating back to 2000. (Hey, it’s not garbage — I’m supporting The Arts.) So I am no stranger to MUNI — even in its worst days of the late 1990s. (I am still haunted by nightmares of the regular hour-plus no shows of the J Church during rush hour.) But the best way to really get the lay of the land and uncover espresso shops in every dark corner of the city is to do so on foot.
Average a mile every other day for almost three years, and it adds up. Even if I don’t have the pedometer to prove it. Though the permanent damage that many of these cafés did to my taste buds and central nervous system is a different story…
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on 13 Mar 2006 at 6:58 pm +00:00T 1.TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Trip Report: Coffee to the People said …
[...] I was thwarted again, as it was closed with signs saying “We are training hard for the U.S. Barista Competition — wish us luck!” Almost as strange was seeing CoffeeRatings.com posted in every window on print-outs of this month’s San Francisco magazine article. [...]
on 06 Jan 2007 at 2:25 pm +00:00T 2.Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Personal History: My Two-Year Journey Into the Caffeine Desert said …
[...] In the end, the caffeine angle is an amusing one — given that espresso, my coffee beverage of choice, is one of your better options. Culturally, at least in America, we errantly behold espresso as if it were an intravenous drip of pure caffeine. Writers and editors constantly riff on espresso as a euphemism for the most potent infusion of caffeine your veins can handle. Pulling an all-nighter? Six cups of coffee won’t do, but six espressos will keep you awake from now until Christ’s second coming. (For example, last year, San Francisco magazine even resorted to calling me a “caffeinista”.) Yet if made properly — i.e., without all the water-soluble muck that comes tumbling out into your typical over-extracted American espresso — it has less caffeine than your average drip coffee. [...]