Taking care of your caffeine addiction will not be a problem in San Francisco. Deciding where to go for coffee might be. Here are five of the best shops in town:
1 Sightglass Coffee
A vintage roaster yields the mild blends sold in this former warehouse with two stories of sipping space.
2 Ritual Roasters
This Mission spot is known for the Gibraltar, a cappuccino-macchiato hybrid that’s so precise it’s only served in-house in a special glass.
3 Blue Bottle
Of the company’s many shops (and crazy vacuum-drip mechanisms), the best is amid SFMOMA’s rooftop sculpture garden.
4 Four Barrel
The snobbiest coffee snobs sun themselves (and sometimes eat chocolate-spice doughnuts) on Four Barrel’s wrought-iron front patio.
5 Caffe Trieste
No Frankenstein drip devices here, but Francis Ford Coppola is a fan, as were Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
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Photographs by Clay McLachlan/ClayPix.com (Blue Bottle) and Eric Wolfinger (Four Barrel)