The new Blue Bottle Cafe opened today in San Francisco’s Mint Plaza, the first full cafe from Blue Bottle Coffee. cheesebikini? points us to a New York Times article about their Lucky Cremas Bonmac 105 siphon bar, a $20,000 Japanese brewing device located at the new cafe.
With its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Cafe here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future.
The NYT article features a photo gallery that shows the step-by-step process of how coffee is made using the siphon bar.
UPDATE 1: Niall Kennedy went to the cafe’s opening this morning and shot a few photos, including some of the Lucky Cremas Bonmac 105 siphon bar.
UPDATE 2: Ryan Bailey shot some video of coffee being made with Lucky Cremas Bonmac 105 siphon bar.
photos by Peter DaSilva via The New York Times & Niall Kennedy
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I visited Blue Bottle Mint Plaza this morning for espresso, siphon, and breakfast. I took lots of pictures, now uploaded to Flickr.
Here’s a video my housemate Ryan shot of the place. The siphons look damn rad.
http://www.viddyou.com/profile?videoid=23483
I just did a review of this place on my blog. I think the whole $20k coffee thing is all a bit misleading even if it is good press. It really works out to about $3-5/cup. Not too bad if you consider that clover brewed coffee is about the same.
The coffee siphon is good press, but according to the JuliB.com write up, the place also offers “charcuterie, cheeses and more.” I’ more interested in hearing how that stacks up; there’s lots of places too get a decent cup of coffee in SF, but much fewer to get a decent plate of cured meats.
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