Finding nirvana in the coffee capital of the United States 3

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   • Pathos 1814
   • 12 Sep 2008 5:27pm 1221265634 1221294434

   I'm not entirely sure what brioche is,But mother#&#!!er, does that stuff look good.
   Okay, Tom, you've got me off Gristmill for a while; I've gotta go find food.

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   • Pangolin 1753
   • 12 Sep 2008 7:14pm 1221272045 1221300845

   I officially hate you.Because I know deep in my liver, that was only a tiny portion of the wonders of Slow Food Nation that I was unable to attend.
   Die happy, see if I care.
   
   Put the Carbon Back

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   • swagv 11046
   • 13 Sep 2008 9:10am 1221322248 1221351048

   Blue Bottle Cafe's La San Marco --> BoscoBtw, if you've been there recently (in the past month), Blue Bottle Cafe replaced their La San Marco manual lever machine at their single origin espresso bar with a two-group Bosco from Napoli.
   I had one of the most amazing shots I've ever had in the Bay Area there three weeks ago from a wet-processed Ethiopian Sidamo that came out a lot more balanced than you would expect from a single origin shot (let alone a wet-processed Ethiopian).
   I've been meaning to blog about it for a couple weeks and will eventually get to it...
   And the two machines at Four Barrel are La Marzoccos, but technically Mistrals -- Kees van der Westen-designed jobs that are extremely rare to come across. It's a nice touch that they sort of designed the layout of the café around them.
   But if you know James Freeman or Jeremy Tooker, you'd find it logical that James would be drawn to the siphon bar and the Bosco and Jeremy to the Mistrals.   ...read more

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