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Residents of San Francisco have succeeded in keeping a small, locally-run, organic microroastery's coffee cart from opening in Dolores Park! Apparently the owner wasn't willing to face "a thousand people there spitting on them on their opening day" and "fucking riot cops," which is what blog commenters promised him.
I like Blue Bottle Coffee and wouldn't mind drinking some in Dolores Park, but on the other hand I wouldn't want "legit" vendors to drive out the weed truffles guy or others of his ilk. And on the other, other hand, La Cocina is still going to put a cart/trailer thing in the park, anyway, and I'd rather have Blue Bottle than La Cocina.
I have no idea what the hell you just said.
EDIT: HA metoometoo beatme toit.
Aw, now I want to know what you wrote before you edited it!
Truffle man!
Have you ever actually had one of his truffles? I never have, I just like the idea.
So you have truffles made of weed out there?
@stc: duuuude. the bay area has everything made of weed. but i remain most fond of weed made of weed.
I have. They are delicious (and then, a half hour later, you get stoned.) Recommended.
The process wasn't transparent enough. Translation: I didn't pay attention to any of this until last week. Parks & Rec should come to my house and notify me personally of such things.
Either way, I think we should put Dolores Park against Park Slope is some kind of grudge match.
IF IT WASN'T HAND-PICKED BY F.A.R.C. REBELS THEN YOU CAN FARK THE FAKIR OFF, BRAND-MARKETED SWINE.
Man. What is it about this low-level stimulant that always has people on edge? Any DC people remember when the Murky dude was always running around threatening to punch people in the balls? Good times. Man, I need more coffee.
I was about to say: if you have a potential mob riot on your hands, you may want to avoid distributing stimulants. That sounds like something the Army would do to soldiers in battle in WWI. Berserker mode!
sheeit. we'll take it across the bridge is oakland. every time i go to the claremont farmer's market i want a cup of blue bottle coffee but the line is too goddamn long.
SAN FRANCISCO REC & PARK REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
DESCRIPTION OF YOUR FOOD OPERATION/IDEA
This is a proposal for an organic coffee cart to be operated in Dolores Park.
DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENT USED
Our unique secure organic fair trade coffee cart has a top speed of 155 mp/h even while carrying a fully loaded 2,200 kg bean payload. It features b7+ armor with ballistic protection on both the perimeter of the vehicle and underbelly at STANAG 4569 level specifications. The coffee cart is armed with Protector M151 Remote Weapon Barista Station with a .50-cal M2 machine gun-espresso maker, a 7.62 M240 machine gun roaster in the rear of the vehicle and a mk-19 grenade launcher stir-brewer, which actually stirs the coffee grinds as it brews (or launches grenades, depending on morning intelligence reports).
TERM OF OPERATIONS
Until the perimeter of the park is secure for all organic coffee cart operations and all known enemy combatants have been terminated or detained.
The 'thumbs-up' button was made for Screen Name.
seriously though, this is fucking depressing. i don't think there's a more misguided, confused, and self-righteous bunch than yippie liberal san franciscans. how the fuck do you get all NIMBY about a coffee cart when i can buy heroin and a tranny hooker around the corner?
Is it locally-grown heroin?
I agree. I love living in San Francisco but some of these pushy, pouting, self-righteous types drive me crazy.
I think there would be a riot if anyone tried to take coffee carts away from New Yorkers
Two things I discovered from reading the article:
1) Not surprisingly, one of the most vocal opponents is Chicken John, a man who could make a cause out of rain on a Tuesday. His last big work was about the art installation funding process at Burning Man.
2) Pushcart vendors don\'t have to meet health code standards. By contrast, here in NYC, the average man-in-a-box selling donuts is more scrupulously inspected than any restaurant.
chicken john is san francisco "eccentricity" at its worst. a tiresome, and tireless, self-promoter with no actual content.
agreed. sounds like he wouldn't have minded AT ALL if Ritual had set up shop in Dolores Park.
I despise Chicken John.
Every day I don't wake up in Dolores Park is __________
And I'm here in Echo Park
Carmelita
Hold me tighter
I think I'm sinkin' down
And I'm all strung out on café au lait
On the outskirts of the Towne Centre
"They like their anger roasted generally."
#white_people_liked_this
Who needs coffee in dolores park? That's where you go to sit and drink beer on nice days (which are gone for now anyway)…
but that doesn't keep this whole exchange from being really depressing. nothing another beer can't fix though.
I'm loco for my loko.
Dolores Park is kind of weird. A friend put it down to the Eggers distortion field meeting the Castro bubble.
I'm happy to say the only time I've been there was when my dog needed to take a dump.
Well, poor form all around, but my heart gushes blood for Blue Bottle just about as fiercely as it does for Buffalo Exchange. Which is to say, either way I'll continue to get my coffee and Mexican wedding shirts someplace that doesn't turn quite such a healthy profit off the ostensibly penurious.
Related: where the hell can I get Mexican wedding shirts cheaply in Brooklyn?
There's this cute little place just off Arthur Ave. in the Bronx I know of! But not Brooklyn. Who goes to Brooklyn?
@Matt: Mexitalian Pleasures!
i don't know shit about brooklyn, but you should be able to find guayaberas in any caribbean neighborhood. they still have those in brooklyn, right?
Well, I've poked around in both Puerto Rican and Dominican areas of Wburg/Bushwick with no real success, but, of course, I wasn't expecting any since I always assumed the Mexican wedding shirt was Mexican. (But the Internet says it's Cuban, clever Internet!)
Oh, what's that, Scott Ian? Ah, okay, yes. Everyone? Scott Ian has something he'd like to say.
They should have just applied for a YM login.
"And the next thing you know…"
The last chicken john I saw was on To Catch A Predator.
So, hobbies are a… good thing.