coffee in San Francisco

adrian522

I'll be in SF soon for 2 weeks, I wondered can anyone recommend any good coffee places?

* nowhere beginning with Star or ending with bucks

Sam the Sham

I went to both of these last time I was there and they were excellent:

http://www.ritualroasters.com
http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com

They have a few locations each.

PPC

https://sightglasscoffee.com/ is worth a look too

Sinfonia

I thought Farm:Table was quite nice!
http://farmtablesf.com

duckworth

Blue Bottle Coffee is amazing, try to visit it if you're into your speciality coffee. Its run by an Irish guy as far as I know.

They're big into coffee there, so I think the standard is very high in general.

ghosttown

An irish coffee in the big pub on Fisher mans wharf. Not sure of name but well known.... they say they invented it ! Worth a visit for views too...

cali_eire

Check out Philz Coffee : http://www.philzcoffee.com

adrian522

Thanks everyone, I'll try to check out a few of those places.

Bohrio

duckworth wrote: »

Blue Bottle Coffee is amazing, try to visit it if you're into your speciality coffee. Its run by an Irish guy as far as I know.

They're big into coffee there, so I think the standard is very high in general.

Definitively a plus 1 on this one.

I bought their book recently, great read as well. Great shop

Stojkovic

Cafe Trieste in North Beach, just off Colombus.

Had one in the morning and went back at lunchtime.

Its kinda famous too.

Its opposite the best bar in SF too - the Saloon !!!

oddsoxrocks

Sam the Sham wrote: »

I went to both of these last time I was there and they were excellent:

http://www.ritualroasters.com
http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com

They have a few locations each.

Awww...you lucky person!! SF is amazing! I'll second Blue Bottle Coffee. Before I went to SF some ppl recommended Peet's Coffee... personally I thought it was poor and expensive. But good luck. Please let us know how you get on!

cali_eire

oddsoxrocks wrote: »

Awww...you lucky person!! SF is amazing! I'll second Blue Bottle Coffee. Before I went to SF some ppl recommended Peet's Coffee... personally I thought it was poor and expensive. But good luck. Please let us know how you get on!

Peet's is a regional chain that Starbucks based learned from. It's superior to Starbucks so fine for every day but not on the gourmet level of the other places. The biggest downside of the other places listed is contending with the hipster contingent.

adrian522

Plenty of great coffee in San Francisco, a lot of great little independent coffee shops in and around North beach.

I can confirm the above that Blue bottle coffee is excellent, went there a few times. They do a nice affogato (espresso poured over ice cream, also iced coffee New Orleans style if that's your thing.

On my last day there I bought some beans to take home as follows:

Retrofit Espresso

http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/products/retrofit-espresso

This is excellent, had a shot or 2 this morning.

Hayes Valley Espresso

http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/products/hayes-valley-espresso

I'll try this one next but sounds promising also

Colombia Las Margaritas

http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/products/colombia-las-margaritas-honey

I bought this one to use with the Kalita/Aeropress but haven't tried it yet.


Finally this Sumatra was what I'd been drinking in my aeropress over there, it was nice without being anything spectacular.

http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/products/sumatra-simalungun-harapan-tani

To be honest I think we could do worse than these guys for a group buy at some point.

Bohrio

It might sound sad but I was looking forward to your update so thanks for that!

I couldnt visit the blue bottle shop myself when I went to San Francisco. I bought their book on ebay a few months later but I have always heard good things about them. You are so lucky.. if I go back to SF I will def pay them a visit!