Posted by TheShot on 06 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Quality Issues
This café isn’t easy to stumble upon, even if its signature is a rather large Art Nouveau café sign in lights. You have to enter the One Jackson Place center to reach this café, adorned with a miniature zinc bar and zinc-plating decorating its small kiosk.
Located in a quiet courtyard surrounded by multiple stories of [...]
Posted by TheShot on 25 May 2008 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Who doesn’t love a great cup of airport espresso? We sure do — but in extra measure because such a thing simply does not exist. Sure, things have improved since the era of $4 cups of rancid airport coffee, unburdened by quality concerns. But airport coffee today is still characterized by inflated prices, poor quality [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 02 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Local Brew, Roasting
One of the odder, and better, espresso adventures in San Francisco is the outdoor Blue Bottle Coffee tent that descends on the Ferry Building Marketplace every week like a traveling Burning Man exhibition. Starting in 2004, East Bay artisan roaster James Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee brought his coffee cart out to the weekend farmers’ [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 12 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
Farley’s Coffeehouse benefits from coffee-obsessed local clientele and a community that’s largely closed off from the rest of the city in Portero Hill. As a result, Farley’s boasts many loyal patrons who helped vote it into third place in CitySearch.com’s 2005 Best San Francisco Coffee. Farley’s is clearly a decent place for a shot of [...]
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