Vienna sausage cans in the rain on a paper Trader Joe’s bag
Another great drink from MA’velous: Stumptown Hairbender Cappuccino
A walk up polk st
bike lane, covered.
WE ROCK HARDEST – Ben Eine – bad ass.
Giraffe
googly eyes on BART
got off at ashby bart
We finally got to check out Ma-Velous the other day. Here are some photos from the experience. The place is swank with an eddie colla mural to complete the interior.
Mr. Ma himself
Custom espresso machine with see-through glass panels. Some cool work by espressoparts.
Peering in through the side of the espresso machine. La Marzocco guts.
TCHO hot chocolate
and of course the tim wendelboe norwegian espresso
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key: more crema = better. empty cup = not so good. Sorry about the funky anti-aliasing.
credit for working the google maps/wordpress hack: http://digwp.com/2010/01/google-maps-shortcode/ if you want to try this, don’t forget to add the &embed at the end of your link.
We finally got back on the bike and did a long ride last weekend. ~88 miles to Pt. Reyes Station and back.
fog in the morning in the Presidio:
fog on the golden gate bridge too, of course. It cleared up as soon as we were finished crossing.
The Nicasio reservoir. Our group split soon after – we went to Pt. Reyes Station, the rest to Petaluma and then Santa Rosa.
Old St. Mary’s church + Corvette
Riding back across the bridge that afternoon was a little hairy and a little wet, but this scene was absolutely wild:
this part was a bit scary with the tourists and the fog:
Chrissy field on the way back:
Latte at Blue Bottle in the Ferry Building to end the day:
Friend and Oakland resident Eric Smillie has a nice writeup in the New York Times regarding craft beer tastings:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/travel/30headsup.html
Mentions Oakland’s Beer Revolution and SF’s City Beer Store.
a friend sent me this new york times post about kickstand, who have a mobile, bike-transported iced coffee and single-serve drip setup.
I’ve only seen the ritual bike in the bay area:
This guy was selling iced coffee at sunday streets in the mission last july.
and these two were selling ritual coffee at oakland’s wonderful eat real festival last august.
There’s a whole bike storage area at the Westfield mall in San Francisco! I didn’t know that. Awesome.
went to farm:table this past weekend for a quick breakfast and coffee. the cereal and yogurt was enjoyble, the latte was pretty, and the ristretto of an espresso, while lacking some crema, was still very satisfying.
