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 01 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew
Right off BART’s Plasticuffs Station (Mission & 16th Sts.), across of Cafe Los Olvidados, this has never been an attractive part of the city — though mostly because of who might accost you on the sidewalk. (I’ve long called it Plasticuffs Station because of the frequency of finding perps face down on the plaza in [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Beans
Last year I asked the question, “Where are all my coffee varieties?”. Today a press release from a Florida roaster picked up where I left off: Espresso like no Other and perhaps a little like Wine.
The broken English is pretty amusing for a press release — even if they make an obligatory wine comparison (yes, [...]
Posted by TheShot on 17 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew
This newer café/pizza place lies in the little-known neighborhood of Dogpatch, just off the new SF Muni T line. It’s a small space with a couple of indoor tables and a few out front on the corner sidewalk. Just inside the door on the left is a small espresso bar: home to a two-group La [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Restaurant Coffee
The Staten Island Advance (Staten Island has news?!) published an article today that heralds the arrival of tea as America’s new hot beverage of choice over coffee: Tea time. For all the Oolong Frappucino and Chai Latte lovers out there, hey — more power to you. These are good times with more options. But before [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 28 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
With my kitchen currently getting the bulldozer (i.e., reconstruction) treatment, home espresso operations have come to a screeching halt. What better time to forage for espresso? Last week I reported that Caffé del Doge opens in Palo Alto, and this morning I decided to pay a visit.
This chain of Venetian cafés opened in 2003 (thanks [...]
Posted by TheShot on 18 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Local Brew
I’ve always said that Eton Tsuno of Café Organica is an espresso visionary. Now his, along with Santa Clara’s Barefoot Coffee Roasters, aren’t the only Bay Area cafés to be famous for offering a choice of coffee bean blends for your espresso.
As reported in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (Cetrella owner to bring chowder house to [...]
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