I Tried San Francisco’s New $15 Coffee (for one eight ounce cup)

[steve2470]

(actual headline with my edit)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/coffee-disrupted#.enomxR5Oj

In case you didn’t know, San Francisco’s thing right now is REALLY FANCY coffee shops.

Like the kind where your coffee takes 30 minutes to make and comes with edible platinum flakes and a latte art selfie of your barista.

But when I saw that a coffee shop called Equator was charging $15 for pourover coffee (!!!!), I was floored.

$15? For just, essentially, black coffee?? I had to try it.


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For that price I can get a whole pound of coffee, grind it myself and be happy for days.

[leftofcool]

1. I love grinding my own coffee.

Once is a while though, I really want to splurge on some exotic delicious coffee.

[yuiyoshida]

15. My favorite is Kona Blend

I can buy the beans at Safeway and grind my own. I would love to try pure Kona but that requires a bit of shipping from Hawaii.

[Wilms]

2. Really good. Really inexpensive.

[Depaysement]

3. Coffee has jumped the shark in NYC

And I love coffee. It's been whiskey for the last 5 years or so here.

[hifiguy]

6. Depends on the liquor.

[Depaysement]

10. No but I eat ful medames on occasion

Wine for me. Whiskey at night once in a while. It's the trendy thing. Only a putz drinks whiskey in the morning.

[hifiguy]

5. If I am going to spend that kind of cash on something to drink

it is going to be damn good Scotch.

[NightWatcher]

7. I get a brick of Cafe Bustelo for $3 bucks.

[panader0]

8. Buy Bob! Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.

https://marleycoffee.com/

[hobbit709]

17. That's pretty expensive.

I pay about $50/lb shipped for certified Blue Mountain

[olddots]

9. as my uncle Sidney would say

" for that price I should get a BJ and a back rub " nobody liked Uncle Sidney much .

[Major Nikon]

11. I won't say I would never pay $15 for a cup of coffee

But I can say I would never pay $15 for a cup of coffee served in a paper cup. Grinding the beans with a power drill also looks like nothing more than a gimmick.

[840high]

12. For that price I can get

3 cans of Kroger.

[steve2470]

13. PANAMA EL BURRO GESHA WASHED coffee, 2 pounds for $169.85

https://store.equatorcoffees.com/coffees/panama-el-burro-gesha-washed.html

$84.92 per pound. For that price, I better have an orgasm every time I take a sip!

Equator is the coffee shop in this article.

[Odin2005]

14. Upper-middle class morons with more money than sense.

I bet most of them consider themselves "liberal", too, all the while being good consumerist sheep.

[flamingdem]

16. Morans with an expensive education and too much money

from mom and dad!

Or, stockbrokers.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

18. the coffee nerds I know have moved on

They're now into haunting Asian bistros and delis looking for imported supermarket coffee from southeast asia