Tag Archive 'four_barrel'
Posted by TheShot on 08 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends
Ding dong, the Wi-Fi’s dead. At least that’s the message from some coffeehouse customers in an L.A. Times article today: Coffeehouses unplugging Internet access to reconnect with customers – latimes.com. It’s been a year since The Wall Street Journal first thought they invented Wi-Fi backlash. Although the L.A. Times cites the very same Four Barrel [...]
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Tags: cape_town_cafes, customer_service, four_barrel, laptop_zombies, ritual_roasters, Starbucks, victrola
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Posted by TheShot on 07 May 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Local Brew, Roasting
This industrial art space café opened in late 2009 and is easy to miss — despite its size and being across the street from AT&T Park. There are a few French café tables among the front patio and also inside, but inside it is primarily a large art space with white walls and a number [...]
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Tags: china_basin, clever_dripper, equator_estate, espresso_review, four_barrel, laranzato, paper_cups, pour_over_coffee, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 04 May 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
We honestly don’t like repeating ourselves, but we will anyway. No, this has nothing to do with the Cafe Grumpy $12 cup of coffee scuttlebutt going around — where New Yorkers once again find something in their backyard and therefore presume they must have invented it. (Curiously, this came up one month after CNN reported [...]
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Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_grumpy, coffee_prices, coffee_roasters, four_barrel, nyc_coffee, piemonte
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Posted by TheShot on 10 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Roasting
We published our first trip report for Sightglass last July: Sightglass Coffee, Version 0.3. Back then, Sightglass was a tiny espresso-serving kiosk at the front of a vast, 4,000-sq-ft space with a 14-kg Probat roasting operation planned to start in the Fall of 2009. We revisited Sightglass this week to see how much things have [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, chemex, coffee_roasting, consistency, espresso_review, fourth_wave, four_barrel, la_marzocco, pressure_, slayer_espresso_machine, soma, third_wave, verve
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Posted by TheShot on 08 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
The New York Times today published a piece on the Bay Area roaster land grab going on out East: West Coast Coffee Roasters Are Lengthening Their Reach – NYTimes.com. Ritual Coffee Roasters, Barefoot Coffee Roasters, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Four Barrel Coffee are each mentioned — lugging their roasting equipment over the Rocky Mountains and [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, blue_bottle, coffee_bean_seasonality, coffee_roasters, coffee_rush, ecco_caffe, flat_white, four_barrel, intelligentsia, ritual_roasters, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 06 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
Last night we attended a quasi-annual Portuguese wine tasting event sponsored by ViniPortugal. We’ve attended this event a few times prior (last at the Palace Hotel in 2008), and this was by far the worst: completely cramped quarters atop the 32nd floor of the Westin St. Francis, vendors who ran out of wine and bailed [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, cafe_reviews, four_barrel, gibraltar, tablehopper, viniportugal
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Posted by TheShot on 27 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew
Coffee is as universal a beverage as you can find in this country, and yet countless special interest groups seem to identify with coffee as it were their own exclusive thing. This identification may have a lot to do with a modern culture that values hype and hyperactivity — and associates that most with caffeine [...]
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Tags: bicycles, coffee_culture, coffee_identification, espresso_review, fetish_coffeeshops, four_barrel, la_marzocco, mission
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Posted by TheShot on 19 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
MSN City Guides recently joined the ever-popular year-end parade of Internet-friendly Top 10 lists: America’s Best Coffee – 1 – MSN City Guides. As if to show Bon Appétit that they, too, can list their favorites without the bother of any supporting criteria, MSN’s editors also took an early holiday and let two additional nominees [...]
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Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_reviews, coffee_roasters, ecco_caffe, four_barrel, ritual_roasters, user_reviews
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Posted by TheShot on 17 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
Bon Appétite‘s January 2010 issue steps into the fray by naming their top 10 boutique coffee shops: Top 10 Boutique Coffee Shops: In the Magazine : bonappetit.com. Making their list is SF’s Four Barrel Coffee. But before anyone gets too excited, it’s worth noting that Bon Appétit is a sausage factory for Internet-friendly “Top 10″ [...]
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Tags: best_coffee, bon_appetit, cafe_reviews, four_barrel
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Posted by TheShot on 16 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
Today’s East Bay Express published a good, and long-overdue, cover story on some of the quality coffee changes going on in our fair East Bay: Surfing Coffee’s “Third Wave” | Feature | East Bay Express. Its use of the Third Wave crutch is unfortunate, but also par for the course these days. Meanwhile, we will [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, chowhound, cole_coffee, east_bay_espresso, flying_goat, four_barrel, oakland_espresso, ritual_roasters, taylor_maid, third_wave, yelp
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