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  Blue Bottle Cafe's La San Marco --> Bosco

  Btw, 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.On Finding nirvana in the coffee capital of the United States posted 1 year, 2 months ago 3 Responses