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Trip Report: Caffè Amici Espresso @ Montgomery St.

Posted by TheShot on 04 May 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew

This is the sister café to the one on 15th Street in Potrero Hill by the same name. It just barely opened this week on the former site of a shut down Torrefazione Italia. It’s so new, the cash register wasn’t working when I visited, and the staff were making receipts with pencil and paper.
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Trip Report: Cafe Algiers

Posted by TheShot on 29 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew

This small Middle Eastern café near the TransBay Terminal (technically in the Bechtel Building) is easy to overlook. But that’s where I hope Web sites like this one come in.
In addition to their espresso bar, they have a full-service deli … and they also offer one of the few decent falafel sandwiches in the area. [...]

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Trip Report: Tassili Caffé

Posted by TheShot on 24 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew

Errantly called ‘Tasili Coffee’ in most phone books and directories, this is a business lunch spot tucked away in the Hills Plaza brick office park, within a courtyard in the shadow of the Bay Bridge featuring a statue of the old Hills Bros. Coffee trademark: the turbaned Arab drinking coffee. Yes, this location was once [...]

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