Recently I started drinking an occasional café Moevenpick, which is an espresso with hot skim milk also flavored with real vanilla. No sugar and few calories, but a lot of good taste.

I found out also that US milk producers add sugar to milk to induce kids to drink it. Think this might be a place to pull the sugar out and save some calories?

When I made the Moevenpick with sugarless milk, it tasted different.

I'm a French Roast guy, but like Colombian Supremo also.

Best coffee I ever had was in Venezuela and France, served by young ladies who were even more delicious than the coffee.

Going back to France soon, will enjoy the coffee and the eye candy :D

Sounds good. I might have to try that.

That doesn't sound legal.

Goin' back to the old sod is a wee bit far, so I've had it here instead . .

Irish Coffee Story

quoted (in Canada last year) : "I like my coffee like I like my women: "Ground up and in the freezer". lol

I prefer Café Sua Da easily found in San Francisco's better Vietnamese restaurants and Submarine sandwich shops, but most other good Viet and Thai restaurants have it as well. layer of sweet condensed (usually "Carnation" brand in the USA) milk at the bottom of a tall glass, the coffee is decanted through a small one cup filter that sits on top, takes about 20 minutes at your table to finish, then you stir vigorously with a long handled spoon. Has plenty of small ice cubes in the glass.

Perfect accompaniment to any good Vietnamese/Thai dish, especially the hot and spicy ones.

Irish coffee & other irish San Francisco drinking memories.
 

Yep.


That's the correct story. It really was invented there back in 1953.

I am from (2nd gen native) San Francisco, and partly Irish, and it's ("Going for an Irish coffee at the "BV" for natives and tourists alike) is a long-standing tradition. I have been there a number of times. Even got to stay past closing once though the SFPD is pretty strict about that kind of thing, though half or more of the SFPD is Irish, and no strangers to drinking: ------> (3 kinds of drinkers: 10 those who don't drink; 2) Those that drink a lot; and 3) Those that drink a HELLUVA lot!)

In 1982 when England went to war with the Argies over the Falkland Islands, one of the SF bars down in the Mission district was serving FREE, yes, FREE, Argentine beer to anybody that wanted to come in and drink it!

Another time I was in the ole "Rose & Thistle" bar (closed now) at Polk & California down from Van Ness where the Cable Car goes by, and went into the bathroom. There was graffiti above the urinals, somebody had scrawled "SMASH the I R A" and some angry drunk Irish guy had gone nuts and crashed his fist right through the wall when he'd seen it! (Pretty funny to me, though, to see that. Irish can be pretty hot tempered!) haha


You should see that town party on St. Patrick's day. It's a blast! Even the SFPD joins in too. I have seen it myself! lol

Craziest part is the "Great Irish Way" on Geary Blvd. out towards the beach. Loads of Irish bars there, and plenty of illegal Irish aliens (females mostly were nannies and males usually worked in construction) frequented them along with residents and regulars), the Abbey Tavern, ect.


I remember once in the early 80's on St. Paddy's day I went into the old Pat O'Shea's Mad Hatter @ 4th and Geary (their slogan: "We cheat tourists and drunks") :D and there were several SFPD cruisers parked outside and portable police riot barriers positioned outside into the first traffic lane on the street outside. It was CRAZY - such a madhouse inside that when I went in there, I tripped and fell down on my azz: there was beer and potato salad even all over the floor just inside!

My fiancée and I will do it - return together to the BV on our next trip to the City, (we both want to do it), in from Nevada, even though neither of us reside in SF any more - (we BOTH lived/worked there decades before we met!).

They also serve Mexican coffee (with Kahlua instead of whiskey) and also another fave of mine Amaretto coffee (yum!):beer::beer::beer:

And also it's a great place to crawl into on New Year's day after a wild New Year's Eve, and order up a traditional Ramos Gin Fizz along with a nice eggs Benedict --- though it's been some years since I did that.

Oh it's time for another trip back to San Francisco.

Love "my" City. (forever).