Posted by TheShot on 24 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Thanks to friend of this blog, Shawn Steiman, for pointing out this somewhat amusing article from today’s New York Times: Loving Coffee Without Being a Drip – NYTimes.com. In something of an ode to the Mr. Coffee automatic filter drip machine, the author — Times food critic, Frank Bruni — laments the many overly precious [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 11 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Local Brew
Since 2006 (if not earlier), this hole-in-the-wall café has served the Brazilian expatriate community through juices (sucos — e.g., cajá, cajú), savory pastries (salgados), and desserts (sobremesa). The non-expat patrons seem to come here to get their açai bowl freak on, which means somebody is reading all those spam e-mails. All of which puts into [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 23 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Local Brew, Roasting
If you love espresso, live in San Francisco, and don’t know who Thomas E. Cara is, well, shame on you. Although Caffè Trieste may be a historical West Coast espresso landmark, Thomas E. Cara goes back a decade further. Espresso first enchanted Thomas Cara while he was stationed in Italy during WWII. So much so [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Home Brew, Machine
Last week, the Guardian (UK) published an article on a home espresso enthusiast’s journey to obsession: In pursuit of the ‘God shot’ | Food and drink | Life and Health. Having reviewed almost 600 espresso shots in SF proper ourselves — most of them pretty bad — we’d like to believe we know a thing [...]
[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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