SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Coffee Pros Disagree On Whether Cold Brew Should Be A Thing Cold brew. It's all the rage. It is beloved, especially on warm days, by many a coffee-toting hip kid and soccer mom, but it necessarily leads to the question of whether coffee really
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 Deemed 'Too Serious,' Ritual Coffee Bans Artist's Work In what could be seen as the continued Starbucks-ification of Valencia Street, brick-and-mortar coffee purveyors Ritual Coffee Roasters recently pulled the work of photographer Varese Layzer. It was considered "too serious" for the
misc SFist: Vandalism Report Card: Cloud Correction at Ritual Roasters This is all kinds of awesome. Seriously. And we hope Ritual Roasters doesn't 409 this choice bit of vandalism. Grade: A-.
misc Starbucks' National Re-Programming Camp - Did It Work? Visitors to all the standalone Starbucks across the country yesterday evening couldn't get their buzz on. Why? Because of the temporary national shutdown. Starbucks workers, like these on busy Masonic (where there will
misc How Acceptable is it to Park Your Car in the Middle of Valencia? See an aerial photo and recite the Parker's Pledge, after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment "Non Sequitur" Art Opening This Saturday at Ritual Roasters Mission hipster haven, Ritual Roasters, is hosting a stellar art event organized by curator/painter/illustrator extraordinaire, Sacha Eckes. The show runs through December 2nd and features artists Timothy Buckwalter, Bill Dunlap, Sacha
SF News Step Right Up! Gawk At Public Housing! We're not even really sure what to make of this article on the front page of today's Chronicle. Apparently Gavin Newsom has now so given up on being able to fix the city's
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a little tougher. This
SF News PG&E: Here, Sit on This Garbage PG&E claims that the pop-up cafes will appear periodically around San Francisco all summer thanks to their Let's-Green-This-City ad campaign, an attempt to distract us from how unsustainable and grey the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Our head is areel with all the options for fun this afternoon! Here's a partial list: --Are you one of those people who says, when people ask you how old you are, "29
misc Meet Me at the Coffee Shop/We Can Dance Like Iggy Pop It's two in the afternoon, doesn't anybody have jobs? And it's the worst kind of coffee shop denizens too, the kind who have their laptop on and are pretty much camped out there
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
misc What's In A Name? SFist Spotlight On Ritual Roasters, Part II In part one of our spotlight on Ritual Roasters, we told you the backstory behind one the the Mission's most popular new cafes. We did, however, save one important component of that story
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Business Spotlight: Ritual Roasters "Our friends pitied us when they saw this place," says Eileen Hassi, co-proprietor of red-hot Mission District cafe Ritual Roasters. "They told us we were doing everything wrong." Jeremy Tooker, her co-proprietor, agreed.
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 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
