RAIN OR SHINE ALWAYS A LINE

BROTHER SHUCKERS PRESENTS

If you’re looking for pearlsyou might as well eat BBQ Oysters

EAST BAY

One item menu... (Basically) Always a line, always sells outThe perfect Chicken Sandwich

This visit it was raining... but still a line inside.... You have to love these tables51st & Telegraph, Oakland

Starting in an Alleyway in the mission... fine slow individually brewed cups of coffee prove that people will stand in line to pay $4.00 for a quality cup of coffee

LOVE THIS LARGE OPEN ROOM WITH GALLERY SPACE FEELING... GREAT COFFEE AND NEIGHBORHOOD HANGOUT FEELING... SELL THEIR COFFEE IN WHOLE FOODS ALSO

Coffee wars in SFblue bottle, fourbarrel, Philz & Ritual

the last three found at Whole Foods....

i-pads on every table

local artist have a long standing tradition of hanginout in the coffee houses....art galleries on the walls and stages for music and poetry

art on every wall

local artist have a long standing tradition of hanginout in the coffee houses....art galleries on the walls and stages for music and poetry

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,

who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Moham-medan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,

who passed through universi- ties with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light trag- edy among the scholars of war,

who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,

who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall,

who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York,

who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night

with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls,

incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud and lightning in the mind leaping towards poles of Canada & Paterson, illuminat-ing all the motionless world of Time between,

Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunkenness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light, sun and moon and tree vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn, ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind,

FLORA GRUBB IS IN THE-HEART OF HUNTERS POINT...

BUT IS ONE OF MY FAVOR-ITE SPOTS... BASICALLY A NURSURY... IT SELL A VIBE AND HAS A CAFE AND COFFEE SHOP AS WELL AS BOOK STORE AND GUEST SPEAKERS ON TOP-ICS THAT MIGHT INCLUDE REPLACING YOUR LAWN WITH EDIBLES, SHEET MULCHING, NATIVES....

SF MISSION DISTRICT-- VALENCIA STREET

PAXTON GATE One of my favorite stores on Valencia Street... Just for its originality and image... a strange combination of exotic plants, taxidermy, sci-ence, art, butterflies and Jr. science experiments. I’ve never taken someone to Paxton Gate who was not mesmerized by the experience of lingering here.

We all have our heroes...

and Dave Eggers would certainly be one of mine.

Not only a brilliant writer he has this crazy shop on Valencia Street and in the back he has after school writing program for under-served kids in the mission

DELPHINO PIZZARIA

UNA PIZZA NAPOLATANA

New Large SpaceWood Burning Oven

4 style pizzasthey can only can bake 3 at a time

Always a line

TARTINE....So Specialalways a linealways refined

EAST BAY

NAPA

CORNER STONE SONOMA

WEST MARIN

WEST MARIN