SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Central Coffee Central Coffee obviously serves coffee -- we've tried it, it's good. But they also have a small menu of healthy options for food, as well. And except for their signature lox-bagel plate, everything
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gettin' Wild at The Civic Center, Trimethyldioxypurist-style Jury duty. Ack. While we won't get into the specifics behind our general reluctance in doing our civic duty, we were glad for the opportunity to revisit one of our favorite coffee joints
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Pizza in the Western Addition 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
misc The Essefficist Cares. Sort of. This week the Essefficist brings you yet another question from an out of towner pining for San Francisco. Hopefully this one will prove a little more satisfying than that poetry thing last week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Trimethyldioxypurist Se Réveille sur la Rue de Polk So first, the good news -- your Trimethyldioxypurist happened on a swell place for a cup of coffee, one that we fully encourage you to try. The bad news? La Boulange de Polk,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Drinks <i>Flavored Coffee?</i> Wha-huh? We know . . . that doesn't sound very "-purist," now does it? We must confess -- we weren't looking for coffee the day we bought these beans. In fact, we weren't even looking for chocolate,
Arts & Entertainment Drink the Haight With Your Trimethyldioxypurist Inside the west-bound 1 California that we rode on Sunday, there's a sign that reads "Shop the Haight." The sign is printed in strange brown tones that make it almost unreadable.We thought
Arts & Entertainment Drinking with the O'Essefficist After soliciting answerable questions from myriad colleagues and cohorts, the Essefficist has some doozies to work with this week. (But don't let that stop you from sending in some of your own.) Having
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nightmarish Coffee at 30,000 Feet It sure is hard to review a San Francisco-based coffee joint when you're not in San Francisco. Although we did find one fantastic coffee house in D.C. (that we would encourage anyone
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Earlimart Afternoon shows at the Bottom of the Hill, like Saturday's Earlimart Noise Pop show, are so excellent -- the buses are running, the sun is out, you don't have to worry the whole
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes a Dive Similarly, there are coffee-related ventures where the coffee quality doesn't matter. Not as much, at least, so long as it's hot and plentiful and the server is quick on the draw with that
Arts & Entertainment <i>Xin Nian Kuai Le</i> (Happy New Year) And a and/or Gong hay fat choi, depending on your dialect, to you! It's Chinese New Year's! Lunch is on your Asian-American friends, who should be flush with red envelope cash today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Gets It Right the Second Time It's like drinking "green." It's vibrant, a little raw, and really just . . . different. Strong, but not oppressively so. Pungent. Piny through the middle; a nice, fresh finish. Perhaps some elucidation is in order.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Mission Statement (Of Sorts) From Your Trimethyldioxypurist After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about
SF News Just Us In the "No s**t, motherf**ker" department, John over at the Legal Reader recently posted an excerpt to an AP story which points out that under California's weapons registration law, the chances
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drink This Coffee NOW. A directive from your Trimethyldioxypurist. 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
SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It's a battle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Goes Shopping Gah. Crowds. Who can stand them? Oh, sure, we'll wait a few weeks before we make all our holiday returns and exchanges. Oh, yeah, Union Square will be like a walk in the
SF News Bay Blogger Thursday A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (okay, it was a Cole Valley coffee shop in August), we met an enterprising photographer who wanted to start her own photoblog. Her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Over the Counter With the Trimethyldioxypurist Much like our experience in Boston, the nasty weather lately speaks to the needs of convenient caffeine. With buses running behind, traffic slowing, or possibly just a desire to stay home and keep
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Drives Thru Does the concept of a drive-thru window for your morning coffee sound odd? Not so odd in Beantown. It's an interesting juxtaposition. The Boston and San Francisco areas have many similarities -- they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Size Matters to The Trimethyldioxypurist When reviewing a cafe or coffee shop, the Trimethyldioxypurist's typical modus operandi is to order a straight-up cup of good ol' American drip, nothing fancy -- a good benchmark to measure the general
