Vegan Brunch Options in San Francisco
San Francisco has always been a city that takes food seriously. From the Mission to the Marina, the food scene here moves fast, and brunch culture is a huge part of everyday life. Whether you are a long-time local or just visiting for the weekend, finding a solid vegan brunch spot in SF can feel…
Read MoreWhat’s Actually in Your Coffee and Why It Tastes That Way
Coffee has more depth than most people realize. There are people who drink it every morning without ever thinking twice about what’s in their cup. They order the same thing at the same cafe, it shows up hot and good, and that’s the whole story. That works perfectly fine. But for anyone who has ever…
Read MoreCoffee Catering That Makes People Talk About the Coffee Instead of Just Drinking It
My friend Rachel produces corporate events for a living and she has a specific relationship with catered coffee that she describes as a managed disappointment she has made peace with over twelve years of event production. The managed disappointment works like this. You book a venue. You book speakers or programming or whatever the event…
Read MoreMobile Ordering Where Ordering Ahead Actually Saves Time
My friend Sam has twenty two minutes in the morning. Not twenty two minutes of free time. Twenty two minutes total between the moment his alarm stops being ignorable and the moment he needs to be on the bus to make it to his office in the Financial District by nine. He has run this…
Read MoreBooking for a Crowd Doesn’t Turn Into a Part Time Job with Group Reservations
My friend Lena is the person in her friend group who plans things. She didn’t volunteer for this role. She didn’t campaign for it or express particular enthusiasm for event logistics or indicate in any way that she wanted to be the person who figures out where twelve people are going to have brunch on…
Read MoreBusiness Meetings That Feels Less Like a Meeting
My friend Diana plans a lot of meetings. Not because she loves meetings. Nobody who plans a lot of meetings loves meetings in some abstract category sense. She plans them because she runs a small consulting firm in San Francisco and running a small consulting firm involves a continuous series of conversations with clients and…
Read MoreCoffee Rewards For Loyal Customers
My friend Marcus has a wallet that tells a story about optimism and disappointment in roughly equal measure. The optimism is represented by approximately eleven loyalty cards from various coffee shops and cafes around San Francisco accumulated over about four years. Each one was accepted at the moment of initiation with the specific hope that…
Read MorePet Friendly Cafe Where Your Dog Is Actually Welcomed
My friend Rosie was very pet friendly. She got a dog eighteen months ago and it changed her relationship with San Francisco in ways she didn’t anticipate when she adopted him. The dog’s name is Biscuit which she chose before she knew him and which turned out to be exactly right for reasons she can’t…
Read MoreOutdoor Seating Where It Actually Feels Like a Good Decision
My friend Clara has a theory about outdoor seating in San Francisco that she developed through years of optimistic attempts and subsequent meteorological disappointment. The theory is that outdoor seating in this city is a promise that San Francisco makes and then renegotiates the terms of without warning. You sit outside because it’s sunny and…
Read MoreWork Friendly Where Nobody Makes You Feel Weird for Staying
My friend Jonah has been working remotely for three years and has developed what he calls a cafe taxonomy that he maintains with the precision of someone who spends a significant portion of his working life in places that are not his apartment and has strong opinions about which ones make that working life better…
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