Posted by TheShot on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, 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 13 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Local Brew, Roasting
Fair Trade, organic coffee drinkers unite!
This former Holey Bagel shop has earned an extremely loyal (dare I even suggest “partially blind”?) following in the central Haight district. On their front door, they boast themselves as the #1 coffee shop in San Francisco on the basis of their reviews on Yelp.com. So they must be fantastic, [...]
Posted by TheShot on 25 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
A shout out to CoffeeRatings.com in the March 2006 issue of San Francisco magazine (page 40): THE HOT SPOTS - One-shot wonders - San Francisco magazine. (Update: someone thankfully posted a graphical version of the print story as well.)
Friends in the area have asked me since this article was published, “Did you really walk 500 [...]