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James Freeman

  • 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

    January 6, 2012

    Cold Coffee, Cold Chicken, and Hot Bama Messes: This Week in Food Bloggery

    Generik11/SF Weekly Flickr poolHighlights from the blog this week:​ 1. SFoodie's late-night cooking-channel scout, Michael Leaverton, discovers Bama Glama, whose dethgoth, party-planning host wears spiked sunglasses (yes, photographic evidence is provided). Leaverton's reaction to the show: coin ... 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 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • 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 22, 2010

    Liza Shaw's Thanksgiving Essential: Pumpkin Cheesecake

    SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Every year, A16 closes for Thanksgiving Day, and chef Liza Shaw is as thankful about that as anyone. "If you stay open for Thanksgiving," she says, "you're expec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Russ Moore's Thanksgiving Essential: Sticky Rice and Chinese Sausage Stuffing

    SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Russ Moore is the Bay Area's chef's chef. At Camino, the Oakland restaurant, he operates with his wife, Allison Hopelain, the Chez Panisse veteran reduces cooking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Marcia Gagliardi's Thanksgiving Essential: Giblet Gravy

    SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Tablehopper editor Marcia Gagliardi spends her days and nights roaming the city, chatting up restaurateurs and tasting all there is to be tasted. But when it comes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Irvin Lin's Thanksgiving Essential: Green Bean Casserole

    SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Since I grew up Asian in St. Louis, my Thanksgivings always skewed a little from the mainstream. I never realized that sticky glutinous rice wasn't part of everyon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    James Freeman's Thanksgiving Essential: Wonky Turkey Roasting, Lots of Coffee

    SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Perhaps the wonkiest of S.F. coffee geeks, Blue Bottle's James Freeman does Thanksgiving with the aid of gadgets, key elements sourced from Ferry Plaza, and no lac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Rec and Park Comments On Blue Bottle's Decision to Pull Out of Dolores Park

    renroublard/FlickrLa Cocina is going through with plans to let El Huarache Loco's Veronica Salazar, center, operate a cart in Dolores Park.​More on the aftermath of Blue Bottle's decision to scrap its plans to sell in Dolores Park. Elton Pon, spokesman for the city's Recreation and Park Depart ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Blue Bottle Kills Plans for Cart in Dolores Park

    niallkennedy/FlickrBlue Bottle's James Freeman: No appetite for a contentious dispute.​It looks like opponents of a Blue Bottle coffee trailer in Dolores Park have gotten their wish. Blue Bottle's James Freeman tells SFoodie that there's a better than 90 percent chance that the company's plans ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Why Are Only Some Food Vendors Okay for City Parks?

    Alarzy/FlickrInformal chestnut vendor in Paris.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. So Blue Bottle won't be driving its Third Wave trailer into Dolores Park after all. James Freeman told us whatever benefit the company could scrape together from setting up in the park would be more than oblit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Anti-American Apparel Campaign Founder Goes After Blue Bottle Cart

    Stephen Elliott.​Stephen Elliott, local author (The Adderall Diaries, Happy Baby) and the man who launched last year's successful grassroots campaign to keep an American Apparel store out of the Mission, learned out about the Blue Bottle coffee cart going into Dolores Park last Tuesday. The more h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    An Open Letter from Blue Bottle to the Dolores Park Community

    Blue Bottle Coffee Co.Rendering of Blue Bottle's proposed coffee trailer and its site in Dolores Park.​Organizers of tonight's community meeting at Dolores Park Church to discuss Rec and Park's vendor plans for Dolores Park are finalizing the final agenda. And while representatives of would-be ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 15, 2010

    Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

    Blue Bottle Coffee Co.Rendering of Blue Bottle's proposed coffee trailer and its site in Dolores Park.​Organizers of tonight's community meeting at Dolores Park Church to discuss Rec and Park's vendor plans for Dolores Park are finalizing the final agenda. And while representatives of would-be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2010

    This Year's Eat Real Festival Is Bigger, Better Organized, and More Entertaining

    Jonathan KauffmanThere are moments like this at Eat Real, but they're rare.​ In their second year, the organizers of the Bay Area's back-to-back street food festivals have clearly learned from the surprise throngs and food shortages of last year. Last week, John Birdsall commented how much better ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Eat Real Festival Releases Schedule and Vendor Lineup

    ​Eat Real Festival, the upcoming three-day celebration of street food, urban homesteading, and all foods local, just released its schedule and vendor lineup today. The event, which takes place August 27-29 in Jack London Square, hugs the contours of the food-world zeitgeist like an American Appare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    A Dripper Bar Grows in Brooklyn

    Return Home/FlickrApparently the siphon is a child's toy compared to the slow dripper.​Today, the New York Times reports that Oakland-based Blue Bottle Coffee is opening a roaster and cafe this week in Brooklyn (Williamsburg, to be exact). Followers of owner James Freeman's tweets have been notici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Blue Bottle Oakland is Due Tomorrow. You'll Have to Wait for the Bookmaker's Sandwiches

    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 w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Stiff Competition Shaping Up for Food Vendor Contracts in Dolores Park

    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 tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    When It Comes to Iced Coffee, Kiosk Owner Has a 'Wood' Fetish

    J. Birdsall 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Street-Food Video Takes a Sip of Blue Bottle Coffee, Talks Pee in Linden Street

    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 cha ... More >>

  • News

    February 20, 2008

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

    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 cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

    Mr. Coffee Eat Your Heart Out: Blue Bottle's $20,000 Siphon Coffeemaker

    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 cha ... More >>

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