Posted by TheShot on 13 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Roasting
Weren’t we just saying that there are only about three or four people with original story ideas? Sure enough, this time it’s the New York Times that recycled the same local roasters story idea that has already been once around the San Francisco Chronicle and the Washington Post in recent months: Specialty Coffee Roasters Brew [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew
This dive with barely a service opening sits at the end of an old brick building — still labelled as “Uncle Vito’s Pizzeria” in signage and its black awning. Opening just last month, “Cento” stands for “100″ in Italian — which looks like about the monthly rent that owner John Quintos must be paying for [...]
[view full post]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 [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 02 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting, Starbucks
It’s been a rather sad week for coffee news. An embarrassment, really — with headlines dominated by the ridiculous. There’s Racheal Ray’s TV commercial promoting both Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee and her Death-to-Israel Hamas credentials (though who hasn’t wanted to go jihad on her?). There are vocal members of Christian groups that we now need [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 05 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Machine
A bit slow out of the gate (by a year), Slate magazine filed this article on the Clover brewer, naturally focusing on the device’s expense in the article’s title (“Could a Coffee Maker Be Worth $11,000?”): How the Clover could change the way we think about coffee. – By Paul Adams – Slate Magazine. It’s [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, CoffeeRatings.com, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Starbucks
Dealing with the media can often feel like waiting for a Muni bus. Just when it’s been so long that you forgot that they exist, suddenly three pull up in a row over the span of a few minutes. This time the media frenzy surrounded the recent openings of Blue Bottle Cafe and Coffee Bar [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 27 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Local Brew, Machine
Thanks to a regular reader who tipped me off to yesterday’s gossip on tablehopper.com, a widely read local restaurant scene blog written by an aspiring Hedda Hopper: tablehopper newsletter — june 26. Apparently after a year of searching for just the right location, James Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee found a home for his new [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 28 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew
Thanks to a number of regular readers who pointed this café out to me. SF may not be a big city, but it is when you’re trying to cover all the coffee shops in town. Velo Rouge Cafe is a popular corner café with six indoor tables with window counter seating and a couple outdoor [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 22 May 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
This chocolate café has been in business since November 2005. They sell a lot of chocolate bars up front (in sections labelled dark, milk, and surprises — such as chocolate with pepper), but they offer espresso and café service in the back — with seating among several weathered, painted wooden tables and chairs. There is [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 May 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee
This Campania cuisine-themed Italian restaurant may be named after a freeway (the A 16 autostrada), but it’s more of a trendy hipster spot than you’ll find in most of Napoli — or at least among places that aren’t blaring Eurodance music. Inside they have cork floors and walls in the wine bar in front, a [...]
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