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Coffeehouse

Coffee San Francisco

Hole in the Wall Coffee

I’ve read estimates ranging from 15-20 square feet for Hole in the Wall Coffee, a tiny North Beach window that Zac Green opened in 2014 just uphill from Washington Square Park. Self-described San Francisco...
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Coffee Santa Barbara

Handlebar Coffee Roasters Gibraltar

Aaron Olson and Kim Anderson expanded Handlebar Coffee Roasters from Downtown to Midtown in September 2017, taking over Santa Barbara’s original Safeway market. The airy brick building debuted in the ’30s and features a...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Hot and Cool Cafe Cappuccino [CLOSED]

If Hot and Cool Cafe is good enough for T’Challa, how can anybody else resist the coffee bar’s charms. Tony Jolly’s new Leimert Park cafe houses a copy of Wakanda’s throne, as featured in...
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Coffee San Diego

Bird Rock Coffee Roasters Chuck’s Root Beer

Bird Rock Coffee Roasters is a low-key coffee operation that Chuck Patton founded in 2002 in a sleepy neighborhood south of La Jolla Village. The business now runs five San Diego coffee bar locations...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Intelligentsia Coffee Limelight

“Living in the limelight, the universal dream.” Those lyrics from Rush lead singer Geddy Lee swirled in my head. So did memories of the Limelight, a New York City nightclub that I may or...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Ambrose Cafe Ambrosia

In Greek mythology, Ambrosia is the nectar of the gods. Doves would deliver this magical elixir to Mount Olympus for Zeus and his siblings to enjoy. Somehow, Midcentury Americans reinterpreted this concept as a...
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