Axis Café is Just Like Your Living Room. Only a Hell of a Lot Nicer

19Oct09

Potrero Hill’s Axis Café calls itself “the neighborhood living room,” which is immediately evident when you walk in and see the roaring fireplace — even in the middle of the afternoon. But unlike, say, our living room, the décor here is industrial chic: huge windows, vaulted ceilings, and concrete walls. Comfy couches and armchairs take […]

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Tags: axis cafe, cafe, coffee house, coffee shop

Heart of Drinking: The Psychology of Mixology and Enology

30Mar09

This Wednesday, April 1st at 7:00pm, Get Smart Radio will be recording a live podcast at Coffee Bar in the Mission. There will be live music, and a show hosted by Debbie Zacharaes, one of the country’s most dynamic, leading sommeliers from Bacar, a very well-known restaurant & wine bar in SoMa. She will be joined […]

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Tags: bartender, coffee bar, coffee house, get smart radio, mission, mixology, podcast

Java On Ocean Coffee Shop in Ingleside

15Feb09

I don’t need to tell you that coffee shops are everywhere these days. Unfortunately, 99% of them are shitty franchise shops that put local independently owned coffee shops out of business. Thankfully, Starbucks has stayed out of Ingleside and that allows Java On Ocean to solidify itself as the coffee shop of choice for the […]

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Tags: coffee, coffee house, coffee shop, Ingleside, wi-fi, wifi