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Tea San Francisco That Doesn’t Make Coffee People Feel Like They Made a Mistake Ordering It
My friend Ren drinks tea. Not as a lifestyle statement or a caffeine alternative or a health decision, just because tea is what she likes and has always liked and she’s never felt the need to explain it further than that. She lives in San Francisco and spends a significant portion of her social life…
Read MoreSeasonal Drinks San Francisco That Make You Actually Pay Attention to What Time of Year It Is
My friend Abby has a calendar reminder on her phone that she set herself and has never deleted. It goes off every year in late September and it just says pumpkin spice check Barista. She’s not embarrassed about this. She told me about it directly and without any of the apologetic energy that sometimes comes…
Read MoreCustom Coffee Drinks San Francisco Where Your Weird Specific Order Is Actually Welcome
My friend Jordan has a coffee order that he’s slightly embarrassed about in social situations and will defend aggressively if you question it. It’s a double shot oat milk latte at one hundred thirty degrees with a half pump of vanilla and no foam. Not a hundred and thirty five. Not a hundred and twenty…
Read MoreAffogato San Francisco Where Espresso Meets Ice Cream and Nobody Loses
I need to tell you about my friend Petra because Petra is the reason I know anything about affogato in San Francisco and also the reason I’ve spent more money on dessert coffee drinks in the last year than I care to calculate. Petra is Italian. Actually Italian, grew up in Verona, moved to San…
Read MoreSingle Origin Coffee San Francisco That Makes You Actually Think About Where Your Coffee Came From
My friend Valentina is not someone who gets excited about many things quietly. When she discovers something she thinks is worth talking about she talks about it at volume and at length until everyone in her immediate social circle has either tried it or successfully changed the subject. About seven months ago she discovered single…
Read MoreCoffee To Go San Francisco That’s Actually Worth Grabbing and Going With
There’s a specific kind of morning that a lot of people in San Francisco know well. You woke up slightly later than you meant to. The thing you needed to do before leaving took longer than expected. You have somewhere to be in twenty minutes and it’s twelve minutes away if the bus cooperates which…
Read MoreBlended Coffee Drinks San Francisco That Don’t Taste Like a Melted Candy Bar With Caffeine Anxiety
My friend Claudia has a complicated relationship with blended coffee drinks and she’ll tell you about it at length if you give her the opening. She grew up drinking them at chain coffee places through high school and college and for a long time she thought that sugar rush experience was just what blended coffee…
Read MoreNitro Cold Brew San Francisco That Makes You Stop and Actually Look at Your Coffee Before You Drink It
I want to tell you about the first time my friend Leo had nitro cold brew because his reaction was genuinely funny and also perfectly captures what the drink does to people who haven’t had it before. He walked into Barista Coffee and Brunch on a Tuesday afternoon because he needed caffeine and someone at…
Read MorePour Over Coffee San Francisco That’s Worth the Extra Two Minutes of Your Life
My friend Stephanie is a software engineer who spent four years working in Tokyo before moving back to San Francisco. In Tokyo she developed a specific relationship with pour over coffee that she describes as one of the few genuinely life changing things that happened to her there. Not the career stuff, not the travel,…
Read MoreDrip Coffee San Francisco That Doesn’t Taste Like It’s Been Sitting There Since Tuesday
My friend Carl is not a complicated coffee person. He doesn’t order macchiatos or think about extraction ratios or have opinions about single origin beans from specific Ethiopian regions. He drinks drip coffee. Has for thirty years. Two cups in the morning, sometimes a third if the day requires it, black, no sugar, no milk,…
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