misc The Expense of Hawaiian Coffee On Friday we wanted to drink Kona. It's stupid, we know -- not like Grandma was in the coffee business. Did she even drink coffee? We don't know. Tea, certainly. She used to
Arts & Entertainment In Pursuit of <i>Pursuit of Happyness</i> The scuttlebutt discussed over coffee and corned beef hash at the St. Francis this morning was about the film crews amassed on York street between 23rd and 24th. The set designers had already
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Karma=Good Coffee? Indeed. Ah, it's times like this that we wish we really wish we could describe "taste" better. We found a really nice coffee -- from a local roaster no less -- and when we
misc You Put Your Mocha Java In My Chocolate! With some fair frequency in this column and elsewhere, we've bemoaned the loss of local business to the big guys, whether by corporate buyout or the sort of overproliferation that can present a
misc Not Much Elbow Room At Union Square Cafe We'll admit it -- we set our expectations far too high. We finally broke down -- we decided to try one of those "$4 cup of coffee" places. We went to Emporio Rulli
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe For The (Accidental) Soccer Mom? You Bet! Strange weekend. We're almost exclusively pedestrians, but every so often we're forced to go through the hell that is renting a car. While we hate driving, we were more than happy to make
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spiked! Good Coffee In The Castro While our list of reader-recommended coffee houses to try is growing, we didn't have a chance to cross any places off of it this week. That's because we happened across a wonderful little
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Counter-Intuitive Search For Coffee The last time we actually posted something in this column (as opposed to our contest cop-out), it ended with something like, "blah blah, sick of chalk menus, blah blah, cafes are all the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Craps Out ( . . And You Can Win!) As may be the case with many coffee aficionados, breakfast is our favorite meal. Cuz we get to drink coffee with it. Oh sure, we drink coffee with dinner too, but the a.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rise To Vote, Sir (With Your Trimethyldioxypurist) Palindromes are fun. From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
SF News Best By the Bay! We've gotten shout-outs from some local media types who we really respect since we've been around -- Annalee Newitz, P.J. Corkery, Bill Picture (hey, we love gossip) and the staff at the
SF News Best. Picture. Evar. We love you too, Gavvy-Gav! Stay funky! Photo by Matt Cohen of 1115.org -- and there's more Gavvy goodness on Flickr. And SFist totally reserves the right to use that title again.
SF News The Verne Kopytoff Award So we have a little joke here at SFist. When a mainstream journalist pens an article about blogs that is either dismissive, overly broad in its approach or ill-informed, we give them the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trimethyldioxypurism (Read: Damn Good Coffee) Abundant At New Mission Spot Ritual Coffee, at 1026 Valencia Street in the Mission, opened just a few weeks ago and already appears to have a loyal following. And why not? Our first thoughts as we walked in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Hits A Downtown Sweet Spot While some time ago, we advised using corporate coffee houses in a pinch when you're in a strange town, we're beginning to believe that French bakeries should be our new default places to
Arts & Entertainment Dowd! Friedman! It's Punditpalooza! According to Leah Garchik, the double-bill might never have happened. Dean Orville Schell got Dowd to appear and came up with the idea of adding Friedman to the bill. When he asked an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Sweet, Nothing You're out with your best buds at a hip brasserie, savoring that contented feeling of good friends and good eats. The conversation's buzzing and the mood's high -- but you also notice, out
misc The Trimethyldioxypurist Gets Sentimental Your overwhelming response from the survey last week pretty much indicated that you are happy to have your Trimethyldioxypurist continue to serve as the rudder on this ship. In other words, thanks for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: An Interview With Dan Leone. Before we talk with Dan, let's wrap up the Yucatan definitely-not-yuck-a-thon: since last week we had the opportunity to sample City Blend Cafe's cochinita pibil. City Blend is a coffee shop on 16th,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Asks YOU Okay, folks -- here's the deal. After about 30 entries here on SFist, your Trimethyldioxypurist (that is, fella who loves caffeine) is imploring you for your help in navigating the treacherous ocean that
SF News Gap Announces New Brand "Forth & Towne" -- Snark Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace How anything the Gap Empire was up to escaped our attention is beyond us, but Chicagoist let us know that Gap, Inc. will be test marketing their Talbot, J. Jill and Lane Bryant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes in the View We'll make this one short and sweet -- at Red's Java House (Pier 30), what you see is what you get. On a nice day, you can't beat being bayside; you can't beat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eat At URL's The first time we had lunch at "URL's" (har har) was a while back when we were working down Mathilda a piece at Hewlett-Packard and our friend was at Yahoo. He gave us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Ready For The Rat Race With Your Trimethyldioxypurist My my my. Did we ever need our coffee this morning. Sometimes we forget that coffee's not always just this wonderful, pleasurable, leisurely thing. And when we need it, boy do we ever.
