Blue Bottle Cafe

Blue Bottle Coffee on Fillmore street is in the top 5 Blue Bottle Coffee shops I’ve been to (I bet the cafes in Palo Alto, Mission Bay & South Bay would want to know if they’ve made the top 5 list). The most beautiful thing about a coffee shop is the community that spontaneously gets built over a cup of coffee & I believe that is something so special that this coffee shop has been able to do, at the location it’s at. What I love most about Blue Bottle Coffee is how they have somehow stuck strong to their tradition of coffee engineering. A lot of larger chain coffee shops easily lose their core mission, in Chase of revenue. BBCoffee has stuck strong to brewing great coffee. What I love most about all the BBCoffee locations is how they have simple interiors using plain colors like white, a dash of blue and plain table & chairs. That makes their spaces quite big and lit up, which has some positive effect on people & their mental comfort. The simplicity of their spaces + intriguing notes of their coffees, makes the place a must visit.

My Uncle introduced me to these chain a couple months ago and since I came back to SF again and they were right up the street from where we ate I went to try them again from a location I hadn’t tried yet. My Sweet Latte was still as delicious as I remember but for the price it’s hard to justify. It was also in a smaller cup than the other location but that could have been on me not specifying size. Still I would probably come back because the quality is pretty hard to beat. 4.7/5.

Coffee is expensive but it is really good. Rating 4 stars because it's also not a great place to sit and work for a few hours so it's not a "5 star coffee shop" in that sense. The wifi is extremely slow and there is only 1 table that has a power outlet. Peet's down the street is an overall better experience.