Espresso News and Reviews – TheShot.coffeeratings.com

Good coffee cultures are exported. Starbucks grew by churning out a mutant strain of Italian coffee culture by the thousands. Fifteen years ago, we saw cafés in Prague that boasted “Seattle style lattes.” And while New York City is beating its chest lately over its recent coffee prowess — emulating one of its most famous [...]

Tags: atlanta, coffee_culture, coffee_roasters, coffee_rush, malaysia_coffee, mexico_coffee, nyc_coffee, prague_cafes, seattle_coffee, sf_cafes, sf_coffee, Starbucks

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Has it really been a couple weeks since our last third wave rant? A few years after we thought this topic was dead and buried, lately newbie third wave coffee articles have been cropping up in local newspapers like teenage vampire profiteers. London, Oakland, and now Vancouver: Indie cafés perfectly poised to quench coffee aficionados’ [...]

Tags: blue_bottle, cafe_cleanliness, coffee_chains, coffee_marketing, consistency, mom-and-pop-coffee, peets_coffee, quality_standards, ritual_roasters, sammy_piccolo, sf_cafes, Starbucks, third_wave, vancouver_cafes

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Every once in a while it becomes necessary to celebrate an arbitrary milestone. And we have one today: for the first time, CoffeeRatings.com reached 500 active espresso ratings for San Francisco. What’s so arbitrary about it? For one, the 500 milestone was actually passed many months ago. While CoffeeRatings.com‘s focus has been San Francisco proper, [...]

Tags: cafe_organica, san_francisco, sf_cafes, torrefazione_italia, verismo

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With so much focus on higher-margin espresso drinks in the world of coffee, today’s San Francisco Chronicle published an article on the renewed art of making filter-drip coffee: The ultimate cup of joe? The article particularly focuses on the proliferation of individual serving filter-drip coffee in the Bay Area. This preparation method has definite advantages [...]

Tags: bay_area_cafes, drip_coffee, sf_cafes

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Over the past couple of years, San Francisco has undergone something of a revolution in great espresso. Although the quality revolution has yet to trickle down to the typical corner café, great changes have taken place at the upper eschelon. At the forefront of this revolution is a troika of relative newcomers: Blue Bottle Coffee, [...]

Tags: barista_magazine, best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_organica, cafe_reviews, coffee_roasters, deruta, duane_sorenson, elektra, embarcadero, eton_tsuno, hayes_valley, la_marzocco, mission, panhandle, ritual_roasters, san_francisco, sf_cafes, Starbucks, stumptown, third_wave, torrefazione_italia

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Celebrities are out in full regalia. Tension is in the air. It must be time to review the reviewers as we recap the winners of CitySearch.com’s 2005 Best San Francisco Coffee. Each year, CitySearch.com stages regional popularity contests for establishments in different categories. And each year, they tabulate the online votes from the users of [...]

Tags: best_coffee, caffe_trieste, citysearch, coffee_bean_and_tea_leaf, mr-espresso, peets_coffee, sf_cafes, tartine_bakery

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A Book About… Local Coffee?! A couple years ago, after caffeinating myself to dangerously jittery levels in my quest to sample and review every espresso served in the city of San Francisco, I had the idea of publishing my findings in a book. Crazy idea? Probably. I had written and published a book before, so [...]

Tags: best_coffee, blue_bottle, cafe_organica, cafe_reviews, caffe_roma, caffe_trieste, emporio_rulli, flying_goat, quality_standards, ritual_roasters, sf_cafes, zagat

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