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		<title>Trip Report: Sightglass Coffee, Version 0.3</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/07/sightglass-coffee-kiosk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a reader tip (which are always welcome and encouraged, btw), we were alerted to the opening this week of Sightglass Coffee in one of the danker parts of SOMA. Note that by &#8220;opening&#8221; we mean &#8220;unlocked&#8221; &#8212; and not much more than that.
If this sounds a lot like the &#8220;modest&#8221; opening of Four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate the Bauer, love the coffee</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/06/bauer-hating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s tough to be a newspaper man these days. Having run out of tiresome video game and comic book themes, they&#8217;re now making Hollywood movies out of bloggers. It seems that anyone with a Twitter account can also get a book deal &#8212; ironically celebrating the very media format it supposedly deems irrelevant. So we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fables of the Reconstruction: New Yorkers say their coffee has finally arrived</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/06/new-york-coffee-redemption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, we&#8217;ve dropped notes about New York City&#8217;s coffee culture: from its origins as a desolate wasteland through its more recent redemption. Like the awkward and homely tomboy who first gussies herself up for the debutant ball, in the past year New York City has been running a major publicity campaign to promote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fool&#8217;s Cappuccino Redux?: Blue Bottle&#8217;s SG-120</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/06/blue-bottle-sg-120/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=3370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago, we kicked up a bit of dust when we dressed down the Gibraltar, an espresso beverage created by accident when Blue Bottle Coffee Co. was opening their first SF café in 2005. We called it the fool&#8217;s cappuccino &#8212; essentially the same beverage, but poured in a cheap restaurant supply glass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A neighborhood coffee roll call</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/06/local-best-coffee-battles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is really a series of news citations where coffee-making rivals duke it out in various venues.
First we have New York City-based BlackBook praising a rather healthy list of cafés to check out in Vancouver, BC: Vancouver: Top 10 Cups of Coffee &#8211; BlackBook. Sure, they seem to say more about waffles and string-wrapped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area restaurants still struggle with &#8220;the coffee thing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/05/coffee-roasting-co-emeryville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are not the only ones who have lamented the sorry state of restaurant coffee &#8212; particularly at some of the Bay Area&#8217;s finest restaurants. The San Francisco Chronicle made poor restaurant coffee a front-page headline as early as 1963.
 In some ways, the elevated coffee standards that exist outside of the restaurant world are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tyrrany of Forced Rankings, or: The Annual Esmeralda Watch</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/05/panama-la-esmeralda-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because it is patently uncool for legitimate coffee professionals to gush over gag novelties for coffee tourists &#8212; i.e., kopi luwak &#8212; the media needs an alternative outlet to feed its overly simplistic &#8220;since it&#8217;s the most expensive, it must be the best&#8221; obsession. This is what we once called the nouveau riche stereotype: knowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Report: Napa Valley Coffee Roasting Co. (St. Helena, CA)</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/05/napa-valley-coffee-st-helena/</link>
		<comments>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/05/napa-valley-coffee-st-helena/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 16:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This St. Helena outlet of a two-location Napa coffeehouse and roaster routinely receives &#8220;best coffeehouse&#8221; awards in the area. Given how they handle roasted beans, consumer coffee education, and filter coffee, this isn&#8217;t much of a surprise &#8212; particularly given their general lack of legitimate competition in the region. But from what we can tell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Report: L.A. Café</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/05/la-cafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 15:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=3243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we have been thinking about all the great, Top-20-caliber SF coffee bars that have opened up in recent years. So much so that the news of a great new espresso bar opening in town is thankfully becoming a little monotonous. With all the great coffee now available, we thought we could all use a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Report: Farm:Table</title>
		<link>http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2009/05/farm-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheShot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening just a week ago &#8212; in the space previously occupied by the Illy shop, Caffé Il Latte &#8212; this tiny café is the first in San Francisco to use beans from Santa Cruz-based Verve Coffee Roasters.
The tiny space relies on mirrored walls to add depth, and there is a little bit of a kitchen [...]]]></description>
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