Coffee Studies: John Oliver Skewers the Medical Infotainment Industry
This is gonna sound cliché, but while I’ve been a longtime fan of Jon Stewart, I never quite warmed up to John Oliver. Oh sure… on his new show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, now in its third...
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Trip Report: Cafe Virtuoso (San Diego, CA)
This coffee shop opened in early 2009 in San Diego’s transitional Barrio Logan. This neglected industrial and shipbuilding neighborhood, located in the shadow of the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, is home...
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Trip Report: illy Caffè (Sansome St., Financial District)
I hadn’t seen the illy caffè North America crew since attending Università del Caffè at CIA Greystone. I’ve long admired them as a privately-owned company: run by cool people, with an attention to...
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Trip Report: Octane Coffee / Bar (Buckhead, Atlanta, GA)
In the greater Mylanta area, Octane frequently ranks as one of the preeminent quality coffee chains. As an example, in December 2014 Atlanta Magazine named it the city’s best coffee chain. This...
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Trip Report: Sightglass (SFMOMA)
This Sightglass location was announced in 2015, in the middle of SFMOMA’s three-year hiatus while being expanded into the largest modern art museum in America. It opened with the museum in May 2016,...
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Trip Report: George and Lennie (Tenderloin)
Opening in August 2015 in one of the rougher parts of this softening town, Brett Walker combined his experience as a former Four Barrel Coffee barista with his love of houseplants and large-format...
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Trip Report: Equator Coffee & Teas (Tenderloin / Mid-Market)
Opening in April last year, this Mid-Market outlet of the slowly growing Equator chain espouses being a decidedly populist place for coffee. Like we never heard that before. But given its location and...
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Trip Report: Wildcraft Espresso Bar (Castro)
Former lawyer (and Xoogler), Theresa Beaumont, returned to her former neighborhood and opened this small space in Dec 2015 at the base of the Bank of the West building — following a concession the bank...
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Trip Report: Copenhagen Coffee Lab (Lisbon, Portugal)
Danish owners, Ida de Matos and twins Helle and Susan Jacobsen, created an outpost of their Copenhagen coffee laboratory mothership here in the Príncipe Real district of Lisbon. It’s a Scandinavian...
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Trip Report: Fábrica Coffee Roasters (Lisbon, Portugal)
Stanislav Benderschi — half-Russian, half-Portuguese — opened this coffee destination in June 2015. While far from the first local roaster/café combination within Lisbon’s city limits, it is certainly...
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