Posted by TheShot on 28 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Every time we think about how far we’ve come with the mass cultural awareness and appreciation of specialty coffee in this country, we’re slapped in the face with reminders of how far we still have to go. One perfect example of this is the sorry, antiquated state of the coffee house review — whether in [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 01 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
We at TheShot may peruse the Internet for headlines, but that doesn’t mean we’ve given up on the printed word. So we took notice of our citation in the latest issue of a local neighborhood paper, Glen Park News: Glen Park News - Summer 2007 [2.9 MB PDF file, page 17]. Although we appreciate the [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 13 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew
Today a Salon magazine blog touched on the flaws of the many online review sites: Why a five-star restaurant serves one-star food - Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon.
The writer opens with an anecdote about Yelp — a review site that, in my experience, has long epitomized these flaws (see my lone [...]
Posted by TheShot on 10 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew, Quality Issues
I’m a little slow this time around, but not long ago Citysearch.com announced their 2006 readers’ poll winners for the best coffee in San Francisco: Best of Citysearch San Francisco - Best San Francisco Coffee. This is something of an annual tradition, as we reviewed Citysearch’s 2005 coffee winners. (When you think of it, naming [...]
[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, [...]