SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dunkin' Donuts Coming To Northern California To Water Down, Sweeten Up Coffee Scene Local coffee fans whose palates lean more towards donut holes and coffee-flavored milkshakes than $4 toast and single origins can rejoice: Dunkin' Donuts, the apostrophe-laden chain that fuels many a sleepy New Englander,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Ever Happened To The Coffee Refill? Back in the day, they had something called a "coffee refill". See, your coffee cup was replenished for free or a lesser fee. Flo used to do it. Alice too. But in these
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eureka!, A New Coffee Shop, Adds To Castro Coffee Blitz There's not one, not two, but three new coffee concerns descending on the Castro in the coming months, and today's news about Eureka! (451 Castro Street) is the latest. It's going to serve
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Barrel Celebrates Five Years With Free Coffee, Animals To Pet [Updated With Baby Alpaca Pic] Today Four Barrel Coffee turns five. Aw. And with that, the noted coffee purveyors will offer its fans (because we now live in a city where coffee roasters have fans, making Four Barrel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Free Stuff: St. Frank Coffee Kiosk In South Park For folks working in or near South Park, good news! More free stuff is coming your way. Saint Frank Coffee has opened a kiosk near Public Bikes in SoMa. The outdoor coffee bar
SF News New Coffee War Brewing In The Castro Coffee. Suffice it to say we are a town obsessed. And though it may not boast the hip-kid-approved venues of Ritual, Four Barrel, or The Mill, or the even bougier Sightglass or Blue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cafe Arrives In Western SOMA: Gaslamp The burgeoning area of western SOMA, which until recently was a wasteland of industrial spaces, nightclubs, Costco, and a few offices with bits of housing scattered around, is coming up in the world.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Fills at Contraband Coffee Bar on "National Fill Your Thermos Brand Bottle Day" This post is paid for by our advertiser, Genuine Thermos Brand. This Thursday, May 23rd, beverage fans in the Bay area are invited to celebrate the first "National Fill Your Thermos Brand Bottle
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Blue Bottle's Five-Barrel Roaster DavityDave snapped this shot of a five barrel roaster Blue Bottle uses to small-batch test roasting beans.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Coffee Music Please enjoy this Stomp-style music video of four guys making music while assembling a Sanremo espresso machine. It was just screened this week at the London Coffee Festival. [via SFoodie]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Conversation With Coffee On Tuesday, May 28, purveyors of the city's — nay, the world's! — finest coffee will come together to discuss why their cafes refuse to make iced espresso for your SFist editor. Ideally. But in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Is Getting The Biggest Blue Bottle Location Yet Additional proof that Oakland has more hip cred (or at least more available square footage) than San Francisco at this point: the East Bay will soon get the largest Blue Bottle Coffee outpost
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $1 Coffee At 7-Eleven On Wednesdays We interrupt your regularly scheduled food reading about Mission pop-ups and pickled baby legs to bring you this important announcement: 7-Eleven, purveyor of the world's greatest late-night drunken snacks and cigarettes, will offer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle Scores $20 Million Investment To Expand Into... Something Local third wave coffee roaster and noted denier of iced espresso shots, Blue Bottle Coffee just received a $20 million investment from two venture capital firms to presumably expand their operations. Blue Bottle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Coffee At 7-Eleven This Friday For those of you who don't fret over your latte leaf being just right, Friday you can grab a free cup of coffee at your nearest 7-Eleven. The noted junk food chain will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Latte Art Competitions Are A Thing Many local artisan baristas are considered the most horrible people on the planet due only to the fact that they still refuse to make iced espresso. (It bruises the flavor, we're often told,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Barrel Bans 'Annoying Hipster' Conversations At Coffee Counter At Four Barrel Coffee's back alley coffee window on Caledonia Street, the prickly coffee chain has posted a list of rules for enjoying the alleyway while being respectful of the neighbors. Some of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink German Conglomerate To Buy Peet's Coffee For Around $1 Billion Bay Area-based Peet's Coffee's stock got a jolt (ahem) this morning after the company announced that Germany conglomerate Benckiser will buy the coffee/tea company for a bold $977.6 million. Peet's, founded
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Badass Barista Goes After Brazen Thief Cafe Bello in Glen Park fell victim to a bold thief who swiped money from the tip jar. Barista Madison Kaviyakoen, however, wasn't having any of it. Check out this video she uploaded
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Summit, Noted Artisan Valencia Street Cafe, Will Close Its Doors This Month Posh tech cafe The Summit will close its doors on January 28. Decried by some as a "masturbatory business fantasy," the creatively-minded Valencia Street space served coffee and pastries to "free thinkers, craftsmen,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Coast Dunkin' Donuts Drinkers Prove Too Sophisticated for Peet's Coffee In today's hard-hitting business news: the East Coast expansion of Peet's Coffee and Tea has not gone exactly as planned, it seems. East Coast coffee drinkers, with their delicate palates refined through years
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fourth Wave Coffee Roaster Foils Thugs' Valencia Street Getaway A brawl outside of a Valencia street liquor store Saturday afternoon ended inside of Four Barrel Coffee after one employee — coffee roaster working in the back room — denied two thugs an easy exit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Wants Another Starbucks for Some Reason Employing "reclaimed" gobbledygook as a selling point, Starbucks wants to put another damn spore in the Castro, a few blocks away from the bear-frequented Starbucks at 18th and Castro. With takeover plans zeroed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gay Coffee Is Now a Thing No meth blend? Seems like a meth blend would result in pure comedy gold. Whatever. Fine, no meth blend. Oh, what are we talking about, you ask? Gay Coffee, that's what. After running
