Okay, coffee fanatics, this is major, as in majorly cool—and I finally get to write about it. After searching for over a year and looking at over 50 places, James Freeman of Blue Bottle is going to be opening ~BLUE BOTTLE CAFÉ~ right off the upcoming Mint Plaza and boy, is it going to be swell. The café is going into the 800-square-foot back space of the Provident Loan building; an interesting fact is the building is an exact blueprint from a Provident Loan Society building in New York. Heck, this historic building was even reportedly mentioned in a Dashiell Hammet book. The front of the SF building was built in the 1910s and will...
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My friend Lyle is mildly obsessed with coffee. If it's daylight outside, there is usually a paper take away cup filled with the black, caffeinated liquid within a two-and-a-half foot radius of him. I haven't measured his wingspan. I'm just telling you it's nearly always within his reach. Or nestled in a cup holder inside his car. The other night at work, he announced he was going to The Blue
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After Chubby and I scored our market bounty it was time for a Blue Bottle coffee break. The drip coffee ($2.00) is brewed to order (so be patient) at this outdoor methadonesque clinic for the caffeine addicted. People hover facing the baristas waiting for the sweet sound of their name to be called.
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The Linden Street Blue Bottle coffee shop is barely more than a just a counter. I love the simplicity of this garage-front caffeine dispensary. What makes Blue Bottle different compared to most other coffee places is that they carefully select and roast their beans (as many others do) but they also don’t just plunk a body in front of a machine.
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