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On August 2, 2011, The Folger Building was purchased by the University of San Francisco, for almost $37 million. [3] This marked the return of the university's downtown roots. [ 4 ] It has no LEED certification, as is typical of buildings from its time, and has 83,500 square feet of rentable office space.
Built in 1938, one year after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, Round House Café is one of the oldest restaurants in the Bay Area. [1] It is a circular Art Deco building built by Finnish-American architect Alfred Finnila and overlooks the bay. [2] In 2021, a local coffee company, Equator Coffees, leased the site.
Irish coffee at the Buena Vista Cafe. The Buena Vista is a café in San Francisco, California, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States in 1952. [1] The Buena Vista Café originally opened in 1916 when the first floor of a boardinghouse was converted into a saloon. [2] The current owners also operate the Trident in Sausalito. [3]
Interstate 780 (I-780) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It runs from the intersection of Curtola Parkway and Lemon Street in Vallejo east to I-680 just north of the Benicia–Martinez Bridge in Benicia. It closely parallels the Carquinez Strait for its entire route.
In 1881 Max J. Brandenstein (1860-1925), [2] son of tobacco wholesaler Joseph Brandenstein, began roasting coffee in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1899 he established a tea, spice and coffee import business in his name that took over his brand with the assistance of brothers Mannie, Charlie, and Eddie.
This shop, The 5th Street Bakery, which owners hope to open in late November, is the dream of Maftuna Rakhimova, 27, who came to Erie via Uzbekistan, where she was born, though she identifies as ...
Sam Wo was primarily well known by San Francisco locals for its "famous ... no-frills, late-night food and its you-get-what-you-pay service" and 3 am closing time. [2] In the 1950s Sam Wo was a Beat Generation hangout, [ 5 ] featuring poets including Michael McClure , Allen Ginsberg , and Charles Bukowski .
Costa Coffee has defended its decision to include a transgender person with mastectomy scars in a cartoon mural on one of its vans.. The UK’s largest coffee chain was accused on Monday of ...