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Coffee

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    James Freeman, Blue Bottle Coffee Founder, Just Wrote the Book on Coffee

    Any good San Franciscan knows how to muse over a cup of coffee. We can't help but remembering fondly the coffee drinkers at Four Barrel who continued sipping obliviously as two burglars used this hipster hotspot as an attempted escape route last November. I've sat in many a coffee shop, eavesdr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Ritual's Tex Bohlin Talks Competitive Coffee and Raw Steak Whip Cream

    ​​​​In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we've been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why now.  With the 2012 Regional Barista Championship occurring this past weekend, we spoke to Rit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Four Barrel Publishes "Friendo" Blend Recipe On Internet

    There was a time when the ubiquitous "house blend" was a perennial favorite for lovers of fine coffee products. House blend signified a standard, the ground equivalent of "just a good cup of coffee" that so many caffeine-thirsty consumers looked for. Now though, with big-money, low-quality coffee p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Boot & Shoe Service's Jim Seishas Talks About the Other Side of Restaurant Coffee

    ​ Boot & Shoe Service is respected in the coffee industry as a restaurant that avoids the usual scenario of fantastic food and poor coffee. SFoodie spoke to Jim Seishas, coffee manager at Boot & Shoe Service and sister restaurant Pizzaiolo, about what makes coffee important to his establi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Blue Bottle Unleashes Bottled Iced Coffee

    ​It's a big year for high-grade iced coffee. Portland's big-and-getting-bigger Stumptown unleashed bottled "stubbies" of cold-brewed goodness in May. La Colombe followed suit in August with iced coffee encased in elegant containers, and Grady's large bottles of New Orleans Cold Brew showed up seem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    The Blue Bottle Coffee Cart Finds a New Home in the Castro

    neilconwayA Blue Bottle latte​The Blue Bottle Coffee Cart has had a long and rocky journey to its newfound location. Originally slated to be a part of the all but aborted Dolores Park food cart project, Blue Bottle's attempt at mobile coffee brought a hailstorm of criticism from local business ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    De La Paz Roasters Cafe Promises a Four-Item Menu and Baristas as Bartenders

    ​Jason Benford's De La Paz has existed only in bagged-bean form since 2006. Now the scrappy coffee roaster is making its way into the chaos of the San Francisco roaster-retailer scene with a new cafe set to open sometime in February on 7th and Mission. To test out each week's beans as well as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Ecco Coffee's Andrew Barnett Explains Why Restaurant Coffee Is Rarely Good

    ​​In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we've been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why now. Today we talk with Andrew Barnett of Ecco Caffe. As a coffee aficionado and a thirty year vet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Illy's Espressamente Cafe Opens Downtown

    Johnny O./YelpThe new downtown Illy Espressamente. ​International coffee powerhouse Illy is stretching its espresso-tinged fingers in to the heavily populated world of San Francisco cafes with Espressamente Illy, a high-end cafe now open at 123 Battery. It is Illy's ninth Esspressamente to ope ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Verve Coffee's Colby Barr on How to Help People Discover Richer Coffee

    ​​In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we've been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why now. Today we talk to Colby Barr of Santa Cruz's Verve Coffee. Can you tell me a little bit about h ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 9, 2011

    Beijing's FishEye Café Serves Ritual Roasters Coffee

    ​​In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we've been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why now. Today we talk to Colby Barr of Santa Cruz's Verve Coffee. Can you tell me a little bit about h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Ben Kaminsky of Ritual Coffee Dreams of Life After Latte

    Scott Beale / Laughing Squid​SFoodie is on a mission to sit down with the city's most intelligent, influential, and experienced coffee folk to pick their brain about what makes our city such a hot bed of coffee trends.Today we speak with Ben Kaminsky, Ritual Coffee's quality control expert and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Sightglass Coffee's Archie Archer on the Future of Your Cups of Joe

    Confusedbee​​SFoodie is sitting down with the city's most intelligent, influential, and experienced coffee folk to pick their brain about what makes our city such a hot bed of coffee trends.Today we speak with Archie Archer of Sightglass Coffee about his dedication to discovering the beauty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Nine Reasons Your Barista Hates You

    I've been a barista for almost a decade and I've seen the best and worst customers have to offer. Caffeine can be nasty: Deprived people do crazy stuff. Here's a list of activities that draw the ire of the person behind the espresso machine. Print it out, keep it in your pocket, learn it and be sec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    New York Times Gets Huffy At SF Weekly

    The Slayer. Would you call it "beautiful?"​We got an email earlier this week through the "feedback:" portion of our website, where Letters to the Editor are sent. The writer objected to a March 2010 blog post in which Jonathan Kauffman wrote in part, "Sightglass is one of the first cafes in S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    San Francisco's Top Five Coffee Shops

    Photos by W. Blake Gray​Coffee is such a personal thing. If I like cappuccino, you like drip coffee black, and Bill Cosby likes a triple-tall nonfat extra-hot no-foam latte (apparently true), we're not going to agree on what the best coffee shop is. But I'm the guy with the pen keyboard soapb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Latte Art Competition to Determine S.F.'s Best

    INeedCoffee/ CoffeeHero​Dolores Park Cafe's Latte Art Throwdown Where: Dolores Park Cafe, 501 Dolores (at 18th St.) When: Thu., July 7, 7-10 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Be it free flowing forms of espresso and foam, or detailed depictions of animals, scenery and faces, all latte drinkers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Ritual Takes Sixth Place in National Barista Contest

    Ritual Coffee RoastersRitual barista Kevin Bohlin, left, and Ben Kaminsky, Director of Quality Control.​There may be no ticker-tape parade through the FiDi, but Ritual Coffee Roasters just made San Francisco proud at the United States Barista Championship in Houston this weekend. Cutely, the i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Brown Owl Brings Microroasting to Parkside

    Lolia S./YelpBrown Owl Coffee's woodshop interior.​Ariana Akbar originally wanted to open a flower shop. But even as the trained florist was working out the plans, she was roasting her own coffee and making a lot of espresso at home. Soon the project became a combination flower shop and cafe, then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Disloyalty Card Rewards Restless Coffee Addicts

    ​A few weeks ago, eight local cafes quietly began setting stacks of a promotional card out on their counters. It's the kind of thing coffee shops have been giving customers for years ― buy X drinks, get one free! However, this new "disloyalty card" adds a novel twist: It rewards shopping around. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Caffe Pascucci: A Cure for San Francisco's Italophilia?

    Caffe Pascucci's pistachio cappucino.​Devoted Italophiles, San Franciscans tend to think of Italy in its most pastoral guise, a country filled with artisans passionately crafting humble, exquisite food that sings with innate simplicity and good taste. Our idealization doesn't just apply to pasta, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Sightglass Brothers Offer a Window on the Microroastery

    Catherine ColeSightglass Coffee owners Jerad and Justin Morrison hope to open the cafe portion of their tri-level SOMA warehouse this spring.​It's been a little less than a year since Sightglass Coffee owners (and brothers) Jerad and Justin Morrison flipped the switch on their beloved cast-iro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Afternoon Coffee at Ma*Velous

    Yes, you sip it like tea.​ I first heard of the idea of a distinction between morning coffee and afternoon coffee a few years ago, when a barista at a Seattle coffee shop was describing the shop's array of beans on offer. The cafe's Central American and Indonesian beans, he told me, were straightf ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 15, 2010

    Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

    Yes, you sip it like tea.​ I first heard of the idea of a distinction between morning coffee and afternoon coffee a few years ago, when a barista at a Seattle coffee shop was describing the shop's array of beans on offer. The cafe's Central American and Indonesian beans, he told me, were straightf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Sightglass Coffee Readying Roastery, Café Expansion

    Soon to be an oval coffee bar.​Over the past six or so months, Sightglass Coffee, Jared and Justin Morrison's coffee roastery and cafe on Seventh St. and Folsom, has been selling coffee from a kiosk set inside an old warehouse they're renovating. Tarps separate the espresso machine from the constr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Ritual Ditches the French Press ... and the Clover, Too

    Ritual's V60 Pourover Station​On Monday morning, a slightly flustered cashier at Ritual Roasters on Valencia had to tell customers in line, over and over again, that they could no longer just get a cup of coffee. "We have a new pour-over system called the V-60," he'd say, nodding at a new station ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    No, the Whole City Hasn't Surrendered to Starbucks: Ingleside Cafe is Neighborhood Sweet

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 10, 2008

    The fight for the bohemian soul of North Beach's Caffe Trieste

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Ritual Roaster Barista Named The Best In The West

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2008

    Starbucks Smackdown: Judge Orders $100,000 In Back Tips To Baristas

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2008

    Too-Much-Coffee Man: San Franciscan’s Java Obsession Has Led Him to Rate Every Last Cafe in The City (From 1 to 587)

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • News

    February 20, 2008

    SF's $12 Cup of Coffee at Blue Bottle Cafe

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 26, 2007

    Starbucks Saves Life of Michael Gates Gill, Tom Hanks To Play the Barista

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    Philz Coffee Moves Down 18th, Bean There, Brew That Moves In: Where's The Love?

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    Philz Coffee Moves Down 18th, Bean There, Brew That Moves In: Where's The Love?

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2007

    Starbucks the Great Satan?

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2007

    Starbucks Art in SF

    emanistan Cute 'n' cottage-y, and a great place to waste time. With independently owned neighborhood coffee shops going the way of the dodo, students and work-from-home warriors are finding it increasingly difficult to find local cafés to call home.  CCSF students and Ingleside resident ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 24, 2005

    Raising the Barista

    The Mission's Ritual Coffee Roasters takes its java very seriously

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Hot Chocolate

    The Mission's Ritual Coffee Roasters takes its java very seriously

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Coffee Shop

    Nob Hill Grille

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2004

    Billy, Do Be a Hero

    Reverend Billy & the Stop Big Boxes Gospel Choir hits the Castro

  • News

    April 14, 2004

    The Dog Bites Interview: Barista Champion

    Latte art: cappuccino that a barista draws a milk design in

  • Dining

    July 2, 2003

    Full of Frappé

    The only folks who should drink tea-as-milkshake are microwave-challenged Eskimos

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Best Coffee Beans

    Graffeo

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best (and Freshest) Gourmet Coffee Deal

    Café Abir

  • Dining

    March 10, 1999

    Leftovers

    Café Abir

  • Calendar

    November 25, 1998

    Invasion of the Coffee Shops

    Forgive and Remember

  • Dining

    May 15, 1996

    Dish

    Forgive and Remember

  • Dining

    April 3, 1996

    Dish

    Forgive and Remember

  • Dining

    December 27, 1995

    Dish

    Forgive and Remember

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