full and half drank espressos from contraband coffee (1415 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109) a few weeks ago. super nice service. one of them was the ethiopian single origin, I believe. The other their house blend. I like the shot glasses for serving. the single origin was predictably fruity and bright and the blend predictably more balanced. both enjoyable.
I hadn’t been to a new place in a while. I can finally update the coffee map!
My friend Sam and I stumbled across a “Sacred Places” walking tour by SF City Guides (@SFCityGuides) the other day and decided to follow along for a bit:
st. mary’s cathedral from gough st
the tour started on the front steps of the cathedral and soon moved to the inside.
there’s a quite diverse representation of figures in front of the cathedral
looking straight up from the center
looking back at the entrance
we walked by a few other churches after seeing the cathedral and then stopped into a buddhist temple. then, we parted ways with the tour group and took muni to hang out in golden gate park.
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
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.
