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A Cupping Extravaganza

What I’m not attempting to do

It’s not entirely clear where the right place is to begin when discussing the coffee cupping event I attended last Saturday. I’d like not to spend time discussing the pros and cons of coffee cupping as either a brew method, tasting technique or public relations tool. I’d also not like to [...]

Dying to Get to Sightglass

Name: Sightglass Coffee
Location: 270 7th Street (at Folsom), San Francisco, CA
Roaster: Verve Coffee Roasters (for now)
Rating: 4

The literature tells us that there are five states to coping with the existence of “speakeasy cafes.” I’m speaking about those underground coffee carts that operate in seeming guerrilla fashion, either as a temporary coffee delivery system while a cafe build [...]

Local Art. Schmokel Art.

Name: Blue Bottle SFMOMA
Roaster: Blue Bottle Coffee Company
Location: Sculpture Garden, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Rating: 4-

Many cafes take a great deal of pride in supporting local art. Sometimes the art is good, but often times it’s not. While the correlation isn’t perfect, I think its safe to say that the quality of a cafe’s art is suggestive [...]

Man Seeking Coffee 2.0

Trick or…Coffee?

Halloween activities most typically involve costumes, collecting candy or cavorting in the Castro (or the location du jour), but I, unintentionally, managed to associate Halloween with the anniversary of this blog. That’s right. I started writing Man Seeking Coffee two years ago on October 31, 2007. So I’ll start this post by patting myself on [...]

coffee@home: Four Barrel Mordecofe

Beans: Ethiopia Mordecofe
Roaster: Four Barrel Coffee
Rating: 4-

My plate is more than full at the moment; hopefully, I’ll get around to writing about my visit to Subrosa soon. In the mean time, though, I will say that although it has taken the East Bay far too long to catch up to all the good things happening [...]

Specialty’s Specializing in…Coffee?

I remember when Specialty’s Cafe and Bakery used to be something pretty amazing in downtown San Francisco. As Specialty’s has expanded and as sandwich shops (such as The Sentinel) have seriously upped the ante, Specialty’s has dropped a few notches on my list. Still, as sandwich shops go, and for the money, the food is quite [...]

This Here Ain’t from Bob Evans’ Farm

Name: farm:table
Location: 754 Post Street (between Jones and Leavenworth), San Francisco, CA
Rating: 4-

After my best friend and I hit up the Blue Bottle Ferry Plaza kiosk and before we sated his out-of-town burrito hunger at La Tacqueria (against the recommendations of otherwise admirable Burrito Eater), took a detour by the recently opened farm:table. This visit was a [...]

Blah Blah Blah…Blue Bottle Ferry Plaza

Name: Blue Bottle Kiosk
Location: Ferry Building Marketplace (North Nave), San Francisco, CA
Rating: 4

My first instinct was simply to post a lot of pictures of Blue Bottle’s permanent San Francisco Ferry Plaza kiosk. After all, by now Blue Bottle is practically a household name. There’s also the fact that the April opening of this cafe is [...]