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		<title>Trip Report: Mercury Cafe</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/02/mercury-cafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This corner café looks more at home in Tucson than SF: it&#8217;s akin to adobe construction. To think this was the former home of the Octavia Lounge piano bar/cabaret.
Past a heavy wooden door and faux totem pole on entry, it has beat up, reddish wooden floors, white stone walls, beat up tables that look like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver&#8217;s Caffè Artigiano tackles expansion conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s The Globe and Mail (Toronto) featured an article on the coming growing pains for Vancouver&#8217;s Caffè Artigiano: Coffee chain tackles expansion conundrum &#8211; The Globe and Mail.
For those unfamiliar, Caffè Artigiano still represents the best espresso shot we&#8217;ve ever had &#8212; produced by the hands of barista savant, Sammy Piccolo. Pulled in 2003, years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expansionist Consumer Reports again raids the ghetto coffee market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the headlines today, Consumer Reports continues to explore the merits of ghetto coffee: Lack of excellent coffee blends: Consumer Reports &#124; Reuters. Whereas before they chimed in on the McDonald&#8217;s vs. Starbucks debate &#8212; something we&#8217;ve always likened to a beauty contest between Courtney Love and Joan Rivers &#8212; this time their &#8220;expert&#8221; taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unclear on the concept: International Paper&#8217;s Tuscany cups</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we simply cannot believe our eyes. Today we were browsing through the coffee industry trade rag, Coffee Talk, and we stumbled across this advertisement from International Paper. Could there be anything more wrong with this photo?

We can only guess that the marketing executives that approved this ad haven&#8217;t been any closer to Tuscany than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT Magazine&#8217;s Nifty 50 &#124; James Freeman, Coffee Maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the New York Times Magazine blog posted a mini bio-piece on James Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee fame: The Nifty 50 &#124; James Freeman, Coffee Maker &#8211; T Magazine Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com. The story behind their &#8220;Nifty 50&#8243; (did they hire a former 1960&#8217;s editor from Tiger Beat for that?) is to highlight &#8220;America’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Coffee (&#8230;is a lot like its past)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was approached by a writer exploring ideas for an article to be published by Wired in the UK. (This wouldn&#8217;t be the first time.) The subject line of his e-mail? &#8220;The Future of Coffee.&#8221; His goal was to put together a piece about the &#8220;vanguard of the coffee industry,&#8221; featuring &#8220;new and disruptive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-quality espresso from low-end machines?</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/01/espresso-from-cheap-machines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe published an article today (OK, technically tomorrow) about making great espresso with cheap home equipment: High-quality espresso from low-end machines &#8211; The Boston Globe. The author experimented by buying cheaper, used home espresso machines, and he claims to have achieved decent results. The key to his results were a good grind, good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Report: Haus</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/01/haus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mission is one of SF&#8217;s best neighborhoods. We don&#8217;t necessarily mean Mission Street, however: home to BART&#8217;s Plasticuffs Station and a decent assortment of angry heroin addicts. We&#8217;re talking about 24th Street &#8212; a working class neighborhood with a strong immigrant community, but without many of Mission Street&#8217;s rougher edges.
Decent coffee is now on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Report: Matching Half Cafe</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/01/matching-half-cafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former One World Cafe needed a serious upgrade, and this is it. Gone are the beat-up furniture and odd house plants that made this space look like a medical marijuana co-op in aging neglect. The place now looks more like a sushi bar, with clean, angular lines, dark and solid colors, nicer wood floors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Report: Taste of Rome (Sausalito, CA)</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2010/01/taste-of-rome-sausalito/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sausalito location of a two-café chain in Marin (the other location is in San Rafael) looks almost identical to the Caffé Trieste that once stood at this exact same location before the ownership changed. Any ownership change seems to have come from an insider to Caffé Trieste, as it&#8217;s more than just the outdoor [...]]]></description>
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