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Caffe Trieste

North Beach- San Francisco

love how they immortalized Paul Kantner at his favorite spot

[10000shamans]

I have my go-to spots in San Francsico.  Caffe Trieste, Rainbow Market, Liguria Bakery, Top of the Mark,  Ferry Building Farmer's Market.  Rainbow Market is from my post-accident, long hair days.  An original pre-commodification co-op, crazy with character and intent with burlap bags of grains and beans on cool cement floors, aisles of produce and goods delightfully and unpretentiously presented.  Now it is orderly, measured and efficient. Lacks the spirit of the original though I am always delighted to be there.

Caffe Trieste is the iconic beatnik, boho cafe in North Beach. Italian to its core, it is filled with character and characters.  Great place for a cafe au lait, hear conversations about Quantum Physics, (one of its denizens, physicist Jack Sarfatti, had one of the characters from the film 'Ghostbusters" based on him),  and reading the the San Francsico's Chronicle's sports page, the "Sporting Green" Any American city I travel to I look for a good coffee house with a good bookstore nearby as a place to ground, use as a base and feel like I am at home.  Caffe Trieste and City Lights Bookstore are my San Francisco spots Liguria Bakery is where you by the best Foccacia bread in the city.  It's located 3 blocks away from Trieste and  is a family-owned operation with a single product - an Italian flat bread called focaccia. The dough is mixed in an antique machine, the bread is baked in a brick oven, the product is sold in 8-by-10-inch sheets and wrapped in plain white paper and tied up with string. They use no preservatives, take no credit cards, don't believe in websites or advertising, and when they run out of stuff to sell, they close down for the day. Usually around 1:00PM. My trips to San Francisco are usually on the weekends.  So I time it out to where I can visit the Ferry Building Farmer's Market on Saturday morning.  It is one of the best and oldest markets in the state.  I have friend who sell their product there and the cheese, meat and fish you can buy there is incredible. The quality and vibrance of the produce is amazing. And the Bay Bridge is a perfect backdrop. The Top of the Mark is a restaurant bar located at the top of the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental. Another iconic spot considered by a close friend to be the spot where the Pacific War in WWII was one.  Seems as if there's a bit of truth to this.  It was a ritual for officer's to go to the Mark the evening before shipping out to toast the sunset and the direction in which they were travelling.  Delightfully old-school, cosmopolitan and romantic with beautiful evening views and a choice of 100 different types of martini's

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The Room Tour of San Francisco (with food!), Part 2

What’s with the candles? The music? The sexy dress? Find out in Part 2 of The Room Tour of San Francisco!

Just joining us? Check out Day 1.

Image: detail of architecture on pale green “painted lady” Queen Anne house with mauve, white and gold accents.

On our first full day in San Francisco, we headed out from the hotel to check out the architecture and stop at Cafe Reverie for breakfast. I had this gorgeous French toast with date compote and pecans and Robin had huevos rancheros.

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Berkeley: Caffe Trieste

Our neighborhood in Berkeley, about 1.5 miles west of campus, isn’t the most lively. We live in a patch of residential blocks, and even the two “high streets” nearby only feature a smattering of shops and restaurants. 

Caffe Trieste is one of the most famous, with its Italian-style espresso and live music in the evenings. It has the kind of neighborhood feel that almost makes you forget that this is an area where you shouldn’t walk alone at night. 

Address: 2500 San Pablo Avenue

[budapestsanfrancisco]

Ez itt a Caffe Trieste, hires kavezo a North Beach varosreszben. Papa Gianni Giotta alapitotta 1956-ban (!), nemsokra ra megerkeztek Martenyiek is San Franciscoba, es a kis kamasz Matyasnak maris volt torzshelye, ahol a felforgato irodalmat olvasgatta orakig egyetlen csesze kave mellett, vagy csekkolta a csajokat. Amugy Coppola is itt irta a Keresztapa forgatokonyvet heteken at, de ez nem annyira fontos info.

A hely ugyanugy nez ki, mint 50 evvel ezelott, valoszinuleg a torzskozonsege is hasonloan szines es bohem, mint akkoriban volt.

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Dere's dunben a noo artikle rote ahn www.sanfranciscocronukle.com

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North Beach neighborhood fixture unshaken by shooting

click ta enlarge Mike Koozmin/S.F. Examin'r ...

[little-miss-absinthe-minded]

While being here in SF, I've been lucky enough to stay with a friend and her father, and they have been gracious enough to take me out for food twice now that I, in one million and a half years, could never purchase on my own and it is making me feel incredibly lucky. It's also proving to me that there are people who work hard for their money, and I mean really hard, and that's admirable. It's also proving to me that maybe I do like red wine, I've just never had nice bottles of it. Shoutout to Napa Valley. 

On the complete other end of the spectrum, the $2 iced coffee I had from the coffeeshop where the beat movement started? Also very good. Also made me feel lucky. 

TL;DR - the things in my mouth this past week have been RIDICULOUS. 

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franny, sweet old thing

Photo: Kayla Winsatt