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Trip Report: Danilo’s Bakery BaoNecci Caffè
Given that our headaches with our Web hoster are resolving themselves at a snail’s pace, we’re itching to get back to business as usual. So we are carefully returning to publishing here (saving copies...
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Trip Report: Café Murano
This café is something of a neighborhood favorite for its quirky atmosphere and ridiculously cheap (though not that great) coffee. Inside there’s found art everywhere — plus painted café tables, a...
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Trip Report: Big Sur Bakery & Restaurant (Big Sur, CA)
We recently reviewed a couple of solid espresso options when you head just south of the Bay Area — in Santa Cruz and Monterey. But what if you head further south through Big Sur? Sure, more of your...
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Trip Report: Caffè Roma, SOMA
Many of the new espresso joints in town have fortunately helped raise SF’s quality bar. But these new places also seem to monopolize all the love. It’s no wonder that crackpots spouting theories of...
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Trip Report: Caffe Acri (Tiburon, CA)
Thankfully we’ve got something to report on this week that isn’t some idiot blogger — with a second-grade science education, mind you — telling us medical research suggests that coffee-drinking shrinks...
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Trip Report: Peninsula Coffee Roaster & Deli (San Mateo, CA)
The Peninsula offers little in the way of great espresso. This is supposedly one of the better examples, but it’s not something we would be proud of. If someone was visiting us in San Mateo and wanted...
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Trip Report: Chill
This modern glass storefront, built in 2008 on the site of the former, 70-year-old Brooks Camera, offers a modern, culturally diverse dessert café. The long internal space is characterized by a long...
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Trip Report: Gaylord Caffe Espresso (Oakland, CA)
Locals have raved about this indie coffee and espresso shop for decades. The owner roasts his own, and it’s been in operation since 1976. However, there is no mistaking that the espresso standards here...
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Common Cues for Recognizing Good and Bad Espresso
For a few years now, we had an idea for a post that sat in our unpublished queue: how can you tell a good espresso shop from a bad one? (At least before sampling it.) Given the thousands of good, bad,...
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Trip Report: Caffè d’Epoca (Napoli, Italy)
Napoli is a town of doppelgängers. Perhaps fitting with their con artist reputation, Neapolitans are masters of location-based bait-and-switch marketing. Just take Pizzeria Sorbillo. Operated by Gino...
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Università del Caffè at CIA Greystone
Earlier this year I attended Illy‘s Università del Caffè at CIA Greystone in St. Helena, CA for a course titled Coffee Expert: From Plant to the Cup. Effectively it was a slightly updated and...
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