Category Archives: Newspapers

March 9, 2008

There’s something about Los Angeles that has kept the latest wave of fine specialty coffee at bay. So the August opening of Intelligentsia Coffee in Silver Lake, complete with some imported Pacific Northwest baristas, was a quantum leap.

The shop, on a busy stretch of Sunset Boulevard, is a bold stab westward by the Chicago-based Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea. The bright space is divided into an outdoor seating area, for lounging with a laptop, and an indoor workshop with counter-only seating for focused caffeine administration.

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February 3, 2008

MARIN COUNTY, just north of San Francisco, cradles wealthy bedroom communities in picturesque bays. But nearly half of the county’s 520 square miles is protected open space — bucolic and wild, its tiny towns separated by forested mountains.

It is the kind of landscape, with miles of well-maintained trails, that people travel across the globe to traverse — to Wales, say, or the Cinque Terre. But Marin, particularly its western reaches, offers something for anyone spry enough to walk a mile or two, on any budget. (more…)

January 20, 2008

Until recently, San Francisco’s Japantown had been suffering from a lingering neglect. Even anchors, like the 1960s-era Miyako Hotel, were rundown. So the conversion of the Miyako into the Hotel Kabuki by the boutique hotel company Joie de Vivre — an overhaul finished in November — is a milestone for the neighborhood.

Read it on the NYT site…