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Coffee Break: Watch Four Dudes Make Music With An Espresso Machine

Here's a fun "music video" featuring a bunch of jumpsuit-clad warehouse workers (?) making sweet sounds as they assemble a shiny red espresso machine. The video was made by espresso machine manufacturer Sanremo UK in conjunction with The Media Workshop, a digital production company, and screened ori ... More >>

Cooperative Cafe Serves Best Coffee in South Berkeley

South Berkeley's stretch of Adeline Street is not the most promising drag. Peppered with empty storefronts and neglected lots, it's a string of blocks I used to forego walking on most days, until recently, when I spotted Alchemy -- a tiny, glimmering sign of neighborhood revival that happens to be t ... More >>

S.F., Meet the Velopresso, a Bicycle-Powered Espresso Maker

It was only a matter of time: A U.K.-based company has created what may be the world's first pedal-powered espresso machine, set to take the world by storm this summer. The "innovative coffee vending trike" has no motor or electricity, and most of the energy required to heat the water and brew the c ... More >>

"Deliciousness is My Primary Concern": Watch This 12-Minute Coffee Documentary

Approximately 2,000 hours of work go into every cup of coffee, from growing the beans to brewing the cup, according to this new 12-minute mini-documentary on coffee roasting from The Thrash Lab. "Specialty Coffee: The Pursuit of Deliciousness" takes an in-depth look at three California roasting comp ... More >>

Conversations About Coffee: Three Upcoming Events With the Author of Left Coast Roast

January's a great month for local coffee geeks, bringing us an upcoming trio of events featuring Hanna Neuschwander, author of Left Coast Roast: A Guide to the Best Coffee and Roasters from San Francisco to Seattle. As the title suggests, the book is kind of a coffee guidebook, profiling 55 companie ... More >>

British Chain Says Enough With the Fancy Coffee Names

Even caffeine fiends like ourselves will admit that the specialty coffee culture and the pretension that surrounds it can get a bit exhausting, especially in a town like San Francisco. Somehow amidst the storm coverage, Gawker sniffed out the story that British department store chain Debenhams has l ... More >>

Drinking at the Cowgirl Creamery Milk Bar

Are you lactose intolerant? If not, then keep reading. If yes, then also keep reading, because torture can be fun. Don't believe me? Then ask most San Francisco Giants fans or the people that work at kink.com. While it has been open for almost two years, Cowgirl Creamery Sidekick in the Ferry Buildi ... More >>

The Coffee Shack: Your New Pathway to Frugality

If you're in the Financial District and looking for a cheap way to support your early morning caffeine craving or need for a mid-afternoon metabolic boost, consider venturing to the Hilton. That's right: The heiress-spawning luxury hotel chain has opened the Coffee Shack, a coffee truck on its front ... More >>

Dear Coffee: Why Is Everyone Sipping The Decaf Haterade?

​​In an attempt to demystify the sometimes vague and pretentious world of coffee, we're introducing a sporadic column that aims to  define the most basic of coffee terms. It's a hard coffee world out there, and we'd love to help be your guide through it.Dear Coffee: How exactly does de ... More >>

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 >>

Ecco Sends Roasters To Origin

For coffee roasters, it's common, if not necessary, to send a staff member to what has been deemed "origin" -- the coffee's producing country -- to sample and learn about the coffee they might soon purchase. Traditionally, the task of world traveling and then purchasing the beans has fallen to ... More >>

Blue Bottle Introduces the "Transcendent" Nel Drip at Mint Plaza

Say what you will about the rapid and ongoingsuccess of Bay Area alumni Blue Bottle Coffee,​ but it's indisputable that, for the gear-loving tech geeks of coffee, Blue Bottle has always been both a standout and a pioneer in fascinating -- and expensive -- coffee technology. The Ferr ... More >>

Top 5 Gifts for the High-End Coffee Lover

​It's holiday time and with the world sparkling with Christmas lights and menorah candles, it's time to start thinking about what to get for the coffee lover wedged in to the darker nooks of your family tree. Be it certified coffee geek or simple espresso fan, there's a gift out there for each of ... More >>

De La Paz's Shark Senesac On the End Of 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 with Shark Senesac of De La Paz Coffee.---You're in the process of opening a new ... More >>

Farm: Table Signs Lease on New Cafe, Begins Roasting Coffee Beans

​When Farm: Table opened two and a half years ago, it was one of the first cafes to bring high-quality coffee to the Tenderloin. It was also the first San Francisco business to serve coffee from Verve, the Santa Cruz-based roastery. Even though the space is the size of a shoebox, with little ... More >>

Mr. Espresso Stays True to Itself, but Doesn't Fear Trends

Nathan Y​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 Luigi and John DiRuocco, sons of Carlos DiRuocco, founder and CEO of Mr. E ... More >>

When You Sit and Work in a Cafe, Do You Need to Buy More?

​Fielding your questions about dining out in 21st-century Bay Area restaurants. Have one? Email me.It's not unrare to settle down in a cafe in San Francisco, look around, and realize that every person around you is staring into a laptop with a glowing apple on its lid. (The liberal elite: such con ... More >>

Bernal Supper Club Invades Coffee Bar

Bernal Supper Club -- which morphed from a neighborhood experiment in camaraderie and food into a once-a-week pop-up -- is bringing its fresh market focus to Coffee Bar for Friday night dinner. Bernalwood documented a recent pop-up dinner in photos, and the menu for Friday's Coffee Bar dinner featu ... More >>

If the City Takes Your Dog, It Will Also Take Its Gonads

Tenderloin Coffee Crawl Celebrates Neighborhood Geekery

Jason Permenter​Two weeks ago, Shannon Amitin, one of the owners of Farm:Table, was at a La Marzocco demonstration in Berkeley talking to other people about how great the Tenderloin and Lower Nob Hill had become for coffee geeks. "Since we opened a year and a half ago, four other small coffee shop ... More >>

Good Samaritan Robbed While Buying Suspect Coffee

Coffee Date​A nice man was pickpocketed in the Mission District as he waited in line to buy the unsuspecting thief a cup of joe.Police report that the man was walking down Mission Street at about 1 p.m. on Jan. 14, when a woman approached him, claiming she had no money and was in need of a cup of ... More >>

Looking for a Proper Cup of Coffee? Check Your iPhone

​Blue Crow Media, aka Derek Lamberton, lives in London. When he worked for Current TV, he used to travel frequently to San Francisco. He spent so much time in both cities searching out new cafes and independent roasters that when he became unemployed, he decided to turn his info spreadsheets into ... More >>

Dash Cafe Temporarily Puts Waffles on Hold

Christine W./Yelp​A word of advice to anyone thinking about checking out the waffle sandwiches at month-old Dash Café in the Inner Sunset: Don't. Just two weeks after word of Dash's Belgian waffle sandwiches and sundaes hit the media buzz machine, the café has had to suspend production due t ... More >>

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Four Barrel Comes Out with Barista Mugs

Jonathan KauffmanRegret that you don't get to see your favorite barista every day? Now you can.​ Four Barrel Coffee set out a new line of commemorative diner mugs on its countertop last week, just in time for the holidays. SFoodie spotted the cups, did a double take, and broke out laughing. Each o ... More >>

Domo Arigato, Star Stream Wafflegato

Alex HochmanStar Stream's wafflegato, a coffee waffle topped with ice cream, bathed in hot espresso, $6.​Our hands have finally stopped jittering long enough to let us write about the wafflegato ($6), the maniacally brilliant dessert mashup for coffee lovers from the folks at Star Stream. The ... More >>

New Orleans Iced Coffee from Blue Bottle

dennisandluba/FlickrClean, rich iced coffee from the land of dirty rice.​As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.

Pork and Porky's Collide in the Pig Out!

(Image via Amazon) In his never-ending quest to show creative love to the swine, Chef Ryan Farr (4505 Meats) has cooked up the Pig Out! to go along with the Coffee Bar's recurring movie nights. He will offer a live butchery demonstration of a Red Wattle Heritage pig and then cook it up on the gri ... More >>

Now Open: The Creamery

It's been an exciting couple of days for those of us who have to forage for food in the somewhat sterile section of SoMa known as Mission Bay. Just last Thursday we got Tsunami, a new Japanese joint for after-hours sake and sushi. And yesterday The Creamery opened its doors on Fourth and Townse ... More >>

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