National street-food chronicler VendrTV was in town sampling java at the Blue Bottle kiosk in Hayes Valley, and has just posted the video. Lovably geeky host Daniel Delaney shares a cup with Facebook's Dave Morin (something brainy about the intersection of street food and social networking), and chats up Blue Bottle owner James Freeman. The essential bit? Freeman describing how the Linden Street kiosk came to be, transforming what he calls a "pee-smelling alleyway" into an urban coffeescape wort
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Taste the chicory, not the sugar.This isn't the town for iced coffee, except when it is. Sure, cities like Chicago, New Orleans, and Manhattan have the kind of suffocatingly humid summers that turn the hollow of your back into an uncontrollable sweat sluice, soaking the waistband of your undies the way drip irrigation moistens humus.
What we've got that those other towns don't? Coffee fetishists like John Quintos, who owns the kiosks Cento (360 Ritch at Townsend) and Vega at
Phillie Casablanca/FlickrWith weekday foot traffic and proximity to the 18th Street food scene, Dolores Park is prime ground for vendors.Yesterday's deadline to submit proposals for mobile food vending in San Francisco parks suggested there's stiff competition for the steep swath of green that's become Ground Zero for street food in the city: Dolores Park.
SFoodie spoke with two major players who bid for Rec and Park contracts to manage pushcarts in Dolores Park: sustainable hot dog comp
cscotta/FlickrA traditional letterpress: Good for wedding invitations, and also sandwiches.It looks like tomorrow will see the dawn of primo caffeine in Oakland, as Blue Bottle's new roasting facility (with attached retail café) is slated to open at 300 Webster (at Third St.), a circa-1923 warehouse blocks from Jack London Square. The site will also house Blue Bottle's production kitchen (they've been renting kitchen space in Hunter's Point). Late last week, Blue Bottle was in the proces
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