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Coffee Tastings San Francisco Where You Actually Learn Something About What’s in Your Cup
My friend Isabel describes herself as someone who loves coffee without knowing anything about coffee and she has held this position for about fifteen years with complete comfort because loving something and understanding it technically have always felt to her like separate projects and she has never felt obligated to pursue both simultaneously. She drinks…
Read MoreBuy Coffee Beans Where the Bag You Take Home Actually Matches What’s in Your Cup
My friend Patrick has a morning ritual that he protects with the kind of quiet determination most people reserve for things that matter significantly more than coffee by any objective measure. He wakes up before his family. He has about twenty minutes alone in the kitchen before the day starts requiring things from him. He…
Read MoreFresh Artisan Sandwiches San Francisco That Make You Actually Look Forward to Lunch Again
My friend Nina works in product management at a tech company in San Francisco and she has what she describes as a lunch problem that she’s been managing for about three years. The problem is not that she doesn’t have time for lunch. She has time. The problem is that she stopped looking forward to…
Read MoreHomemade Quiche San Francisco That Tastes Like Someone’s Kitchen and Not a Hotel Buffet
My friend Sylvia grew up in Lyon which she will tell you is the gastronomic capital of France and possibly the world depending on how far into the conversation you are and how much wine has been involved. She moved to San Francisco eight years ago and has made a generally successful peace with the…
Read MoreBreakfast Burritos San Francisco That Actually Fill You Up Without Making You Regret It by Ten AM
My friend Marco is a construction project manager and he starts work at six thirty in the morning which means his breakfast window is narrow and his requirements are non negotiable. Whatever he eats before he gets to a job site has to do serious work. It has to get him through four hours of…
Read MoreHomemade Scones San Francisco That Actually Crumble the Right Way
My friend Beatrice spent four years in Edinburgh for graduate school and came back to San Francisco with two things she hadn’t left with. A doctorate in urban planning and a very specific understanding of what a scone is supposed to be. She is not precious about it. She does not require clotted cream or…
Read MoreFresh Muffins San Francisco That Taste Like Someone Actually Cared What Went Into the Batter
My friend Theo is not someone who thinks about muffins very much. He thinks about a lot of things with considerable depth and attention but muffins have historically occupied a part of his mental landscape that he would describe as background furniture. Present, occasionally noticed, not particularly interesting. He works near Presidio Heights and stops…
Read MoreGluten Free Pastries San Francisco That Don’t Crumble Into Sad Dust Before You Finish Eating Them
My friend Clara has celiac disease and she has been navigating the San Francisco cafe landscape with it for about six years and she has developed a system. The system involves asking specific questions before ordering anything labeled gluten free and pastries at any new place. Not to be difficult. Not because she enjoys the…
Read MoreVegan Pastries San Francisco That Don’t Taste Like They’re Apologizing for Not Having Butter
My friend Zoe went vegan about three years ago and she will tell you the hardest part was not the meat or the dairy in savory food or even the cheese which everyone assumes is the hardest part. The hardest part was pastries. Not because she missed them desperately in an emotional way. Because she…
Read MoreFresh Bagels San Francisco That Don’t Make New Yorkers Go Quiet in That Specific Sad Way
My friend Danny grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and has been in San Francisco for nine years and has maintained exactly one consistent complaint about the city for the entirety of those nine years. The bagels. Not the weather, not the rent, not the tech culture, not any of the things people who move to…
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