Posted by TheShot on 24 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Machine, Restaurant Coffee
Last month — after publishing a few trip reports of nearby Cole Coffee, the Spasso Coffeehouse, and Peaberry’s Coffee & Tea — Luigi DiRuocco of Mr. Espresso asked if we tried the espresso at Oliveto. We last updated our review of Oliveto a couple years prior, so the focus of our most recent Rockridge tour [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 02 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Fair Trade
As one of the final events of Slow Food Nation ’08, we attended The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity Coffee Presidia tasting at Coffee Bar. It is quite a mouthful of nouns. But the key points are that Slow Food is a non-profit, its Foundation for Biodiversity is a countermeasure effort to the dwindling food [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 24 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
Regular readers here are familiar with our squawking about Slow Food in this blog for almost three years now. You might even recall our pilgrimage to the Slow Food mothership in Bra, Italy last October. But in case you haven’t seen the orange and black posters everywhere, next weekend Slow Food comes to America for [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, CoffeeRatings.com, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
As we mentioned in our last post a couple days ago, being popular and being good can be two very things. There are few places where this is more apparent than on Web sites that thrive on aggregate public user ratings and reviews. We had intended this article to be about Yelp’s top SF coffee [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
As we hinted in a previous post, San Francisco magazine just published Josh Sens’ story on the more recent evolution of San Francisco’s local coffee scene in its most recent issue: A new buzz | San Francisco online. (There’s even an article featuring CoffeeRatings.com on the back page: The coffee bard | San Francisco online.) [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, CoffeeRatings.com, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Starbucks
Dealing with the media can often feel like waiting for a Muni bus. Just when it’s been so long that you forgot that they exist, suddenly three pull up in a row over the span of a few minutes. This time the media frenzy surrounded the recent openings of Blue Bottle Cafe and Coffee Bar [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 24 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Local Brew
This week the The San Francisco Chronicle published a piece on the anticipated October opening of Coffee Bar, located at at 1890 Bryant St., which is really on the NE corner of Mariposa & Florida Sts. — just west of Potrero Hill: The Inside Scoop / Restaurants retooling decor, menus, concepts. As it so happened, [...]
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