Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com

What a difference four years makes. One scalability challenge with an effort as large as CoffeeRatings.com is the attempt to cover the sheer number of places serving espresso in San Francisco while maintaining a common yardstick of consistency (to produce useful comparative reviews). But another challenge is keeping up with the changes; cafés open and [...]

Tags: coffee_roasters, espresso_review, gibraltar, panhandle, rancilio, western_addition

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Back in the 1980s, Wendy’s fast food restaurants sponsored a highly successful advertising campaign featuring a diminutive elderly Jewish woman (Clara Peller, she quickly became a cultural icon from these spots). When presented with the hamburgers of Wendy’s competitors, she famously asked, “Where’s the beef?!”
These days, it seems like we need a similar campaign for [...]

Tags: cappuccino, clara_peller, coffee_sizes, gibraltar, latte, macchiato, milk_frothing, to-go-coffee

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This week, Citysearch.com announced that the votes have been tallied once again for their annual “Best Coffee” poll: Best of Citysearch San Francisco 2007 - Best San Francisco Coffee. And is there anything more effective than the annual readers poll for highlighting all the anomalies and flaws of open user review systems? I know I [...]

Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_lo_cubano, caffe_greco, caffe_roma, caffe_trieste, citysearch, gibraltar, peets_coffee, tartine_bakery

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