Tag Archive 'ferry_building'

Trip Report: Blue Bottle Coffee Co. @ Ferry Building Marketplace

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’ [...]

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Trip Report: Boriana’s Favorites

Posted by TheShot on 16 May 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew

I Preferiti di Boriana, or Boriana’s Favorites, is a Ferry Building Marketplace shop that imports wine, coffee, dried pasta, and sauces from Montepulciano, Italy. In fact, it is the only sister location to its Montepulciano-based storefront. They have four bright red, modern, stylish stools at a marble counter for sampling wine and espresso.

They use [...]

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Trip Report: Il Massimo Lounge

Posted by TheShot on 25 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew

This is the newer outlet (opened June 2004) of the greater sister café next to the Italian Cultural Institute. Inside it has a bright, modern interior decorated with colored glass and several indoor tables — plus some modern sofa and chairs set up in the back.
The attaction here, and the reason the owners opened this [...]

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