SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An Obsession With Coffee? Oh, and you can consider the above set of links the Trimethyldioxypurist's guide to getting started as an enthusiast. Obsessive is a whole other level, and you'll know it if you're there*, and
SF News Cab Fare Increases Are the New MUNI Fare Increases The reason for all this is due to the standard reasons: increases in gas rates and cost of living expenses. We would have a measure of sympathy about this, but as we all
misc SFist Answers: Do It Like We Do Marie-Christine asks: I'm French, living in Paris and working for an IT company. I'm organizing a business tour (15 people aged 35 to 55) . . . spending 2 nights over SF on Feb 15 &
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: F*CK The Women's Building auditorium on Sunday night was filled with IndieFesters cramming themselves into uncomfortable purple plastic seats and giggling about the naughtiness of the upcoming film. Us, we were just thrilled to
misc Bottom of the Coffee Pot: A Few Leftovers 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"
SF News Starbucks Is The Bomb It's a triple espresso shot in your crime Blotter/coffee Trimethyl latte -- the SFPD were called in this afternoon to the Starbucks on Van Ness and Bush after an employee found a
Arts & Entertainment The Man Who Rates Espresso: SFist Interviews <i>The Shot's</i> Greg Sherwin A few months ago, we stumbled across a really interesting coffee-related Web site -- www.coffeeratings.com, which (obviously) rates Bay Area cafes primarily according to the espresso they serve. The site's companion
SF News More Concrete, Please Yeah, San Francisco's nice, we guess. But you know what it REALLY needs? Parking garages. Yeah, get rid of that stupid Yerba Buena garden, and that useless Golden Gate Park, and that , smelly
misc Jer on '05 Huh. Well, I’m not so sure that I was especially insightful in my assessment of last year, so for the '05 version, I'll stick to things I know--namely me. I should also
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win A Hair Raiser Prize Pack The folks from Hair Raiser have given us some great Hair Raiser schwag to give away to our readers, including fleece pants, camisoles, and hot shorts. Enter below by midnight Tuesday to win
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads, Late Edition: The Boulevard Cookbook. It is not a surprise that such a successful restaurant spawned a cookbook, aptly named Boulevard, following the path of many of the top restaurants in the Bay Area: Chez Panisse, Zuni Cafe
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Organica--Simplicity at its Finest, and More Proof that our readers don't steer us wrong. 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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Fisties: Best Coffee 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
SF News The Perils of Blogging Drunk What made us laugh even harder, though, was when John at The Legal Reader emailed to explain that it was all something of an accident. A BUI, if you will:I got home
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunday Morning Coffee Conundrum First off, we should thank the powers that be (as SFist Jon alluded to in his recent rant) that we have so many options for good, local, independent coffee places here in the
misc The 'Fisties Through a painstaking and highly proprietary process, we've come up with 15 or so awards about which we're most passionate -- from the highly debated best burrito, to the hotly (heh) contested best
misc SFist Rants: Hating on Starbucks And yes, we're totally serious. Let's go to the way back machine and take a look at those bleak, dark days before Starbucks entered the world. You remember what that was like? The
misc New Customers From New Coffee--'Intelligentsia Design' or 'B.K. Joke'? Okay, so Burger King has introduced this new coffee, B.K. Joe, available in regular, decaf, and (wait for it . . .) TURBO ("40 percent more caffeine!"*). * A lot of places hope to lure in
misc SFist Answers Rx Wow -- after faking answers to a few medical and psychological questions in our past few entries, we suppose people have been happy -- because these kinds of questions keep coming in! So
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Billy, From Grateful Dogs Hey! Grateful Dogs is having an adoption event this Saturday from 12-3 at the West Portal Starbucks. Overcome your knee-jerk contempt for corporate coffee long enough to come and see some of the
misc Hair-Raising Halloween--Coffee Style Welcome, children, to a very special Halloween episode of the Trimethyldioxypurist. We have an update, an experiment, and a couple reviews of some coffee beans. When we think "candy," we obviously first think
Arts & Entertainment The Art of Advertising Once, a long time ago, we worked at a film production office in New York City. The crappy part was labelling tapes, getting coffee for people and waking up at 5am to assist
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jill Tracy With Anne Rice only writing for God and "gothic" becoming synonymous with crazy teen killer, those of us who like our music how we like our coffee are left twisting in the dramatically
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Interviews Julie Powell Julie Powell first got her fifteen minutes of fame as the author of the Julie/Julia Project. She decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over
misc SFist Raves: Citizen Cupcake When the Virgin Megastore on Market opened, the top floor contained a restaurant we spent hours in. Overlooking Market and Stockton streets, we sat there with our textbooks (while frequently reading magazines, don't
