Posted by TheShot on 18 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew
This bakery has been in operation since 1914. While today it is Italian in name, like much of modern North Beach it has a distinctive Latino flair in how it is run today (even if its immediate location is more Chinatown than North Beach). There’s limited outdoor seating along Vallejo St., a wide array of [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 21 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Roasting
In a joint press release oddly issued today — about 15 months after the fact — SF’s own Graffeo coffee was featured in National Geographic’s 2006 book, The 10 Best of Everything: ClickPress | Graffeo Coffee featured in National Geographic’s book “The 10 Best of Everything”. Also noted in the press release, Graffeo’s coffee is [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 15 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew
While much of the world was gearing up for a free Starbucks coffee giveaway, I got in a little practice yesterday and found espresso just as sketchy — but without the lines. (With California’s minimum wage at over six bucks an hour, it takes only 20 minutes of waiting to make “free” coffee not so [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 25 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew
This old school, Calabrian-themed Italian pastry shop once had a touch for good espresso under its longtime ownership. They owner had been using Graffeo beans religiously since 1985. However, by 2006 they switched to Lavazza beans and began making inferior espresso (though the two aren’t exactly cause-and-effect). I’ve been unable to confirm with certainty, but [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 21 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
A friend and CoffeeRatings.com reader, Jeremy Nisen, occasionally writes for SFist — which many rightfully recognize as San Francisco’s best local blog. (Jeremy interviewed me for it earlier this year.) Yesterday he pointed me to his most recent article on the site: SFist: Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use?.
In it, Jeremy [...]
Posted by TheShot on 18 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
A popular, often crowded, slow, and somewhat under-tabled and under-staffed Parisian-styled café that strongly emphasizes French details. (It changed owners in March 2004.) A somewhat confused system for getting a table when they are busy — you’re not sure whether to grab a table yourself, to ask to be seated, etc. Black & white photographs [...]
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