| |  | Four Barrel Coffee | | | “This coffee speakeasy serves special single-origin roasts to cognoscenti from an unmarked doorway in a dead-end alley.” —citysearch | | Cuisine: Coffeehouse |
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| | | | | | Four Barrel has gone old school and brought back its discreet outpost in the alley behind the cafe. Remember that once upon a time (2008), while the actual coffeehouse was under construction, Four Barrel started making its name with the humble coffee cart around the corner on Caledonia, but once the... Read More | | | | | | Lest you think we have reached the coffee saturation point, let me just tell you right now that you are mistaken. For there's a new game in town, and it's going to be a good one. Jeremy Tooker, the one-time co-owner of cool kid headquarters, Ritual, is about four weeks away from opening his own spo... Read More | | | | | | Eater SF reported yesterday that the Four Barrel back-alley coffee cart is no longer—the end of an era of clandestine caffeination? Perhaps, but in this case the end of one era is the beginning of another. We caught up with Four Barrel owner Jeremy Tooker, who is in the midst of putting the finishin... Read More | | | | | | Four Barrel Coffee. Former Ritual co-owner Jeremy Tooker opened his back-to-basics coffee spot last week on an undercaffeinated part of Valencia Street. Prices range from $2 for coffee to $4 for a mocha; Dynamo Donuts are $2.50. The large space has high... Read More | | | | | | San Francisco is a brunch town through and through. And I'm always down for a nice eggs benedict or a stack of blueberry pancakes. But everyday can't be Sunday. Most of us have day jobs and can't lounge around cafes late into the afternoon hours. So here are a few of my favorite spots for quick, cr... Read More | | | | | | from Grub Street New York Richard Coraine's official title is President of New Business at Union Square Hospitality Group. Unofficially, he's a seeker of what he calls "the most inspirational hamburger in America," of delectably salty Methodist church men's club peanuts, and especially of ... Read More | | | | | | Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The Mission: Sure, the brief back-alley era was a whimsy favorite of local coffee junkies, but today, the main event finally arrived at 375 Valencia: the debut of the formal Four Barrel Coffee. As has been mentioned here and elsewhere, the coffe... Read More | | | | | | Welcome back to the Plywood Report, your regular, all-encompassing chronicle of the next generation of restaurants and bars to grace our fair city. Spot something new on your block? The tip line awaits. Bonus points and a fabulous sticker if you include photos. Click the image above to view the fu... Read More | | | | | | Yes, please: Dynamo's lemon-thyme donuts with a honey glaze. Coffee and donuts have been happily married for years, but Dynamo Donut and Coffee is about to redefine that marriage (especially fitting, since today marks the second legalization of gay marriage in California). The new, admittedly thri... Read More | | | | | | We suppose it was only matter of time before the gourmet coffee supertrend spawned a gourmet donut shop, and 7x7's food blog has the deets on one called Dynamo Donut and Coffee: "The new, admittedly thrilling, venture, opening on 24th Street between York and Hampshire at the beginning of July, ... Read More | | | |
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