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 News Comment of the Day: Raining on Starbucks Parade After hearing word that Starbucks might acquire Emeryville-based Peet's Coffee & Tea, SFist commenter CetiAlphaFive chimed in with the following gem: I don't usually get so worked up over things like this, but
SF News Starbucks in Talks to Acquire Peet's Coffee According to DealReporter, the superior Peet's Coffee & Tea is in talks with inferior Starbucks to sell itself to the Seattle-based coffee giant. "Though neither company has commented on the reported deal, Peet's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Wine In A Cup The kids at Laughing Squid have come up with the perfect use for the new Trenta sized cup at Starbucks: covert wine drinking. At 31 ounces, it perfectly holds an entire bottle of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Super Sizes Its Cups Starbucks announced today plans to unveil a gargantuan 31-ounce "Trenta" cup size. According to our sister site, the new size is "[o]nly available for iced coffee and tea drinks" and "will run
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Explains New Logo If your entire world has been thrown off axis over Starbucks new logo, fear not, loyal patrons. The coffee mammoth will walk you through the change in a minute and a half long
SF News Starbucks to Get Trans/Gender Neutral Bathrooms (Should've Happened Here First) Washington D.C. area Starbucks are caving to pressure from LGBT groups and converting their gender-specific restrooms to gender neutral ones. The D.C. Trans Coalition led the push to convert the single-occupancy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bring Your Travel Mug to Starbucks, Get Free Brewed Coffee Tomorrow Get up to 20 ounces of free brewed Starbucks coffee tomorrow when you bring in your travel mug. Starbucks is encouraging people to switch from the wasteful paper cups to reusable ones, for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Recipe: DIY Starbucks Peppermint Mocha In September, Kathryn Hill of Apartment Therapy's "The Kitchn" brought to you a DIY Pumpkin Spice Latte, which was strikingly similar to Starbucks' famous autumnal treat. Now, Hill brings you a Starbucks-ish DIY
misc Remove Outlets at Cafes? Sheer heresy, right? To ban laptop power connectivity at your favorite cafes? Well, that's just what some cafes in New York City, according to a article, are doing in an effort to get
SF News Blogging Berkeley Grannny Sues US Army Jane Stillwater, a Berkelery blogger and Ghost Whisperer fan, is hopping mad. See, Stillwater is suing the US Army for a plane ticket and 15 mocha lattes because she had been given the
SF News Feds Says There's More Pot than Coffee Here God bless the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. Their blog, Pushing Back, claims that there are more medical marijuana spots than Starbucks in San Francisco, adding, the "state 'medical' marijuana
SF News What To Do About High Gas Prices? Burn Down a Starbucks, Of Course! Wow. We hope we're this feisty, and wildly insane, when we're sixty-four. It seems that sixty-four-years-young Diane Craig of Danville was arrested yesterday for attempting to burn down restrooms of an Arco station,
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 Why, Starbucks, Whhhhyyyyyy??? So what exactly does that mean? They're closing up shop because the higher-ups have decided that your favorite barista has been serving you pure swill for coffee these past years. Starbucks wants to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $20,000 Coffee at Blue Bottle Cafe In addition to finding such high-end breakfast items as "pancetta souffle ($9.50), porcini flan ($11), egg and potato torte with warm bread ($5.50) and morel poached eggs ($8)" on Blue Bottle
misc From the SFist Inbox: Geary...? It wouldn't be SFist if it weren't rife with errors and bipolarity-tinged posts. But we got word of an especially egregious error we made today--something, we're ashamed to admit, we never knew. From
misc Pretty Sneaky, Starbucks! This tickles us ever so. Last year after 4,000+ folks in the Richmond held their breath until their faces turned blue, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban the popular
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 113 Rockets 94- On the pregame show before the game, the announcers were saying that whomever controlled the pace of the game would win. If it was fast paced, it's all Golden
misc We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alfred Peet, 1920-2007 Mr. Peet, born in Holland, opened the first Peet's at Walnut and Vine in Berkeley in 1966, and watched it spread nationwide (there's Peet's in New England now?). And the rumors you've heard
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, the SF Weekly. [For some reason, they haven't updated the website at the time we're writing this. We'll try and add the links in when they update their site. Does this have
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: What? MORE letters about Rainbow? Matt Smith threatens to derail Newsom's gubernatorial campaign if he doesn't do something about parking. Rape awareness campaigns in the Castro. Cover
SF News Day Around The Bay -- No official Halloween bash happening in the Castro, anywhere in SF. Hmm, this will be interesting/scary to watch come 10/31. [Chron, The Snitch] -- One dies in crash on the
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Will Harper has it that Chris Daly might run for mayor now that Gonzalez is out. Whoa, a real contender! Interesting. [The Snitch (SF Weekly)] -- Proposed designs for the new Transbay
