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Entries from SFist tagged with 'bluebottle'

January 23, 2008

Now that donuts have made a return to Bay Area coffee houses--minus its exhausting Homer Simpsonesque, white-trash irony--you can find the preferable pastries at places like Ritual Coffee Roasters (vegan! and actually good!), Seattle's Best at Border's Books & Music (double-glazed), and even Starbucks (plasticky). With the return of the donut comes the return of the brewed coffee. At least, according to today's New York Times, which profiles the Blue Bottle Cafe, scheduled to......

Continue Reading "$20,000 Coffee at Blue Bottle Cafe"

May 2, 2006

Some time ago, we met Steve Ford, who, among other things pulls a great shot of espresso. We met him during his tenure with the stalkerriffic Blue Bottle Coffee Company; since our encounter, he's moved onto another coffee-related venture as a roaster at Ecco Caffe in Santa Rosa. Steve recently had a not-so-pleasant experience--he fell out the third-story window of the Burlington Hotel in Port Costa, Calif. ...

Continue Reading "Local Coffee Guy Takes A Fall; Coffee Community Helps Him Back Up"

March 9, 2006

As longtime fans of New York real-estate blog Curbed, we still cringe when we recall the night we drunkenly nagged creator Lockhart Steele "When will we get a San Francisco Curbed? Why don't you love us? Waaaaaah!" We blacked out shortly thereafter, but we're pretty sure Steele just looked at us disgustedly and walked away. Despite what an ass we were to Lock, partner in Curb Joshua Albertson and he went ahead and launched......

Continue Reading "Bay Blogger Thursday"

February 21, 2006

Food & Wine has a pretty interesting take on what's good in coffee these days -- The Obsessive's Guide to Coffee.". The magazine has some purdy pictures, but you can get it all, plus more, here on the internets. We really enjoyed it, but the title of the article may be a bit off. Obsessive? Ummm, not really. No, we don't think so. Enthusiast, perhaps, would have been a better choice. An obsessive would already be doing things like . . . ...

Continue Reading "An Obsession With Coffee?"

January 31, 2006

In the nearly year and a half we've been doing coffee-related writing here on SFist, we've taken a number of pictures that we've heretofore been unable to shoehorn into one of our "Trimethyldioxypurist" episodes. So, hey, it's time for a few leftovers. ...

Continue Reading "Bottom of the Coffee Pot: A Few Leftovers"

December 21, 2005

Last week, we posted our 'Fistie awards for best coffee/cafe in town. A few of the people leaving comments mentioned Cafe Organica at 562 Central Ave. (at Grove) as a contender for the crown. We're pleased to say that had we visited Cafe Organica, which opened last May, just a couple weeks earlier, stalwarts Ritual Roasters and Blue Bottle would have had to share some of the limelight. This place is great. ...

Continue Reading "Cafe Organica--Simplicity at its Finest, and More"

December 15, 2005

Boy--we sure love completely subjective awards, and we're super thankful for a chance to give out a few of our own. People who've been reading our "Trimethyldioxypurist" missives will not be especially surprised by the winners. For those who are strangers to our periodic ramblings about coffee and cafes around the City by the Bay, here are our favorites among the many, many cool, delicious, and often unique coffee choices at which we overcaffeinated......

Continue Reading "'Fisties: Best Coffee"

June 7, 2005

So how do we balance our fawning coverage of Matt Gonzalez' birthday? Why, unintentionally hilarious pictures of Gavin, of course! Matt over at 1115.org dropped by Blue Bottle Coffee, followed the sound of drums, and found the Gavster enthusiastically participating in a ground breaking ceremony on Octavia. Add a new camera and some black-and-white film into the mix, and you have the recipe for Flickr candy. We love you too, Gavvy-Gav! Stay funky! Photo......

Continue Reading "Best. Picture. Evar."

March 31, 2005

Whether you are a Ralph Barbieri fan that enjoys Amici's, a Berkeley-ite that swears by Zachary's, a fan of Chesh's recent discovery Pizza Fiesta, or you, like friend/idol of SFist Pim, enjoy the pies at Pizzetta 211 (after all, they carry Blue Bottle Coffee, folks), we think many people in this town agree: good pizza is not very common in the Bay Area. That's pretty much the whole list right there. Well, now a......

Continue Reading "Good Pizza in the Western Addition"

January 24, 2005

The search is over; the perfect cup of coffee has been crowned. Go, my friends. Go now. There are times when we of modest writing ability are in bliss, for we find a subject that seems to write itself. Additionally, there are times when a Trimethyldioxypurist is in bliss, mostly having to do with, ya know, coffee. Welcome to a caffeine enthusiast's perfect storm. Welcome to Blue Bottle Coffee Co. Blue Bottle, whose roasting......

Continue Reading "Drink This Coffee NOW. A directive from your Trimethyldioxypurist."

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