Trip Report: Bittersweet – The Chocolate Café @ Oakland
Posted by TheShot on 17 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew
This Oakland/Rockridge outlet of the small chain is a little smaller than its SF Fillmore District counterpart, but the standards are the same. Outside there’s a sidewalk bench and a couple of chairs; inside there are four beat-up wooden tables and a tendency for houseflies to gather (just something odd about the building dynamics, location, and air flow here). Plus the requisite wall o’ chocolate, of course.
All of their espresso shots are short doubles by default. And using a older, three-group La Marzocco, they pull espresso shots that are potent but not syrupy in consistency. It has a sweet tobacco aroma and a medium brown, even layer of average thickness crema. Flavorwise, there’s honey and tobacco served in their brown ACF cups. A good, Blue Bottle effort.
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