As it does every day, a line trails out of the door at Blue Bottle Coffee Co. at Mint Plaza, a formerly grubby intersection of small streets and walkways in the center of San Francisco.
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Fortune Magazine: Caffeine from Olympus
December 10th, 2011Travel and Leisure: America’s coolest coffee houses
November 2nd, 2011
Blue Bottle is one of the major shrines on the national coffee circuit. The shop at Mint Plaza is small, with big windows. Inside it’s like a mad-scientist’s laboratory whose devices are designed to torture the bean and make it yield its secrets.
Village Voice: Best of 2011
November 2nd, 2011
Much as it has helped transform coffee from brown beverage to eroticized fetish object, Blue Bottle has taken the snickerdoodle, one of the most prosaic members of the American cookie canon, and remade it into an obscure object of desire.
L.A. Times: Daily Dish (blog)
November 2nd, 2011
Caitlin Williams Freeman is the in-house pastry chef at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s rooftop cafe. The former UC Santa Cruz photography student co-founded Miette. Then in 2001, in what she thought would be a temporary stint, she started making pastries for her husband James Freeman’s Blue Bottle Coffee locations.
Diablo Magazine: Chasing the perfect brew
November 2nd, 2011
There’s nothing subtle about the way James Freeman tastes coffee.
First, he lines up ceramic bowls of coffee on a tall table and thrusts his nose into one to assess the brew’s aroma. Then, he slurps up some of the jet-black liquid and swirls it noisily around his mouth.
GQ – Brooklyn is the coolest city on the planet: an eater’s guide
November 2nd, 2011
Don’t take that as a knock on Manhattan, which is doing just fine. But for the first time since, well, ever, you can spend every New York minute of your trip on the far side of the East River and never feel like you’re missing out.
Time Out New York: The top 100 dishes of 2011
November 2nd, 2011
Brooklyn Bootleg S’mores at Blue Bottle Coffee.
You’d have to go camping with a pastry chef to find anything close to this inspired s’mores riff.
New York Times, T Magazine: Ristretto
September 18th, 2011
This Fashion Week, Blue Bottle Coffee set up shop on the ground floor of Milk Studios in a converted loading dock with a view of the sidewalk paparazzi snapping the editors and bloggers heading to the shows upstairs.
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Food and Wine, September 2011
August 25th, 2011
Ginkgo trees in San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden inspired leaf cookies by in-house, Blue Bottle Coffee pastry chef Caitlin Williams Freeman.
GQ Magazine, September, 2011
August 15th, 2011
“Blue Bottle is my regular stop. I cannot live without the Kyoto-style iced coffee. It almost has barrel age notes to it as if you’re drinking aged bourbons and whiskeys. You experience flavors drinking it like you would find in wine or spirits that you don’t normally gather from coffees. It’s like somebody saying, ‘That’s a full-bodied red.’ This is a full-bodied iced coffee.”