Tag Archive 'acf_cups'
Posted by TheShot on 15 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine, Roasting
As we last left our story, SOMA‘s ever-morphing Sightglass Coffee was glacially executing on its grand designs to become a major SF roastery and a spacious coffee destination. It had been over a year since we last walked among the spent heroin needles of nearby 6th Street, so much of our new Sightglass experience had [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, barefoot_roasters, brightness_bomb, coffee_roasting, espresso_review, four_barrel, laptop_zombies, probat, sightglass, soma, supermodel_cappuccino, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 10 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
Ever eat a hamburger at a 1950s-themed American diner? In Hong Kong? Maybe their waffles didn’t taste like fish sauce, but it’s not uncommon to discover something lost in translation. (E.g., “Why does my hamburger bun taste like rice vinegar?”) On the spectrum of authenticity, this is the culinary equivalent to finding luxury handbags in [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, coffee_chains, espresso_review, french_coffee, hario_v60_dripper, la_marzocco, ritual_roasters, Starbucks
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Posted by TheShot on 29 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Machine, Roasting
Shockingly, it’s taken us this long to make it to Portland, Oregon — considered by many to be ground zero (no café name pun intended) of American coffee culture. And if you’re going to start sampling the offerings in Portland, it only makes sense that you start with the legendary Stumptown Coffee Roasters. This despite [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, cafe_society, chemex, espresso_review, la_marzocco, mistral, portland_cafes, portland_coffee, strada, stumptown
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Posted by TheShot on 24 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
California’s Santa Barbara County is a lot like the rest of America when it comes to coffee: it should face a tribunal for atrocities committed against the human taste bud. What makes these many crimes particularly heinous are the various local media outlets in these communities that celebrate certain local coffeehouses as some of the [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, espresso_review, la_marzocco, mazzer, quality_standards, santa_barbara_cafes, santa_barbara_coffee, Starbucks, verve
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Posted by TheShot on 21 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Quality Issues
The story of coffee at Specialty’s Café & Bakery reflects the story of San Francisco’s consumer tastes for retail coffee. In the beginning, there was Faema + Prebica — and it was weak A decade ago, Specialty’s ran a small chain of bakery/cafés with coffee service areas. Some locations, like this one on Pine St., [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, big_four_coffee, blue_bottle, caffe_artigiano, espresso_review, faema, financial_district, franke, frog_hollow_farm, hario_v60_dripper, intelligentsia, la_marzocco, Starbucks, superautomatic_espresso_machines
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Posted by TheShot on 29 Jun 2011 | Tagged as: Local Brew
With a name that sounds a lot naughtier for the neighborhood standard, Hooker’s Sweet Treats has probably disappointed more than a few thrill-seeking passersby in the Upper Tenderloin/Lower Nob Hill area. (What some realtor wannabes call the “Tendernob”.) But for those who venture here for coffee and confections, it’s something of a destination. Opening almost [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, civic_center, espresso_review, la_marzocco, sightglass
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Posted by TheShot on 20 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Local Brew, Roasting
Good coffee is not only a rare treat in the Outer Sunset, but it is often a rather uplifting social experience. (Though some will call this neighborhood “Central Sunset” or “Parkside”.) This adage remains true at this tiny coffee shop, which looks more like an old barber shop from the outside — save for the [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, clever_dripper, coffee_roasters, espresso_review, hearth_coffee, home_roasting, la_marzocco, outer_sunset
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Posted by TheShot on 18 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee, Starbucks
Let’s hear it for counter-programming. Starbucks made good on last year’s Plenta threat this week, announcing a new beverage size that targets the gluttony market, called the Trenta. As in Godzilla vs. the Trenta. Taking advantage of a news lull, Starbucks’ press onslaught has the media lapping it up. So naturally, we’re going to talk [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, coffee_sizes, equator_estate, espresso_review, fillmore, restaurant_espresso, Starbucks, UNIC
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Posted by TheShot on 14 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Roasting
In 2009, the Italy-based Caffè Pascucci chain (including its espresso school, etc.) turned over its financial management to a group that has since favored more aggressive global expansion plans. These expansion plans included bringing their first non-Italian café chain store on this spot, across of AT&T Park in a modern brick commercial complex. The Italian [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, caffe_del_doge, china_basin, coffee_milkshakes, espresso_review, fiorenzato, gambero_rosso, italy_cafes, segafredo_zanetti, Starbucks
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Posted by TheShot on 11 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine
The name is “Ma’velous”. We’re not sure if this is a New Yorker thing — like when Monday Night Football legend, Al Michaels, tries to pronounce the ‘h’ in the word “huge.” But the owner, Phillip Ma, is a self-fashioned coffee geek with apparently enough money for high-end coffeemaking toys but no real prior training [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, blue_bottle, cafe_organica, chemex, civic_center, coffee_choices, ecco_caffe, espresso_choices, espresso_review, hario_v60_dripper, intelligentsia, james_freeman, la_marzocco, pour_over_coffee, siphon_bars, wendelboe
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