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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, there [...]

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 over [...]

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, Café [...]

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 their [...]

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 I [...]

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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