Posted by TheShot on 27 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Local Brew
This is the kind of place that makes you proud to live in San Francisco. We knew we were in for a treat when we walked in, saw the black-and-red paint all over the space, saw the radio studio with its skull-and-crossbones banner that looks out over the café, and heard the DJ airing Motörhead [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 21 May 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Local Brew, Machine
Jeremy Tooker, co-founder of Ritual Roasters, had a bit of a falling out with Ritual’s co-owner, Eileen, and he’s pursued his own vision of a quality coffee business in Four Barrel Coffee: no Wi-Fi, no squatting start-ups that can’t pony up rent, just no-frills retail coffee plus a roasting and distribution operation. We admire the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
As we hinted in a previous post, San Francisco magazine just published Josh Sens’ story on the more recent evolution of San Francisco’s local coffee scene in its most recent issue: A new buzz | San Francisco online. (There’s even an article featuring CoffeeRatings.com on the back page: The coffee bard | San Francisco online.) [...]
[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 [...]
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