San Francisco's $15 coffee is already sold out

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/San-Francisco-s-15-coffee-is-already-sold-out-6821832.php

For a moment there, we finally had a cup of Joe worthy of sidling up to San Francisco's famous $4 toast. But that moment is gone.

Equator Coffee's Market Street location was pouring over a cup of Finca Sophia beans for an unheard-of $15 this week, until I bought the last cup on Wednesday afternoon.

"You're the last one who's going to get this this year," said Equator spokesman Asaash Saini. "We actually sold about 20 at this location, and that's all we had really planned for."

Saini said Equator decided to put the price right on their signage, essentially daring people to come in and ask about it so that baristas could "educate" people on the product.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. It would be a sleepier world if we had to pay the real cost of making our drug of choice,

or any other product.

Cheap goods come at a high price paid well down the line.

[jonno99]

2. What do you get for $15? Is it a bag of beans, ground coffee - or just a cuppo joe?

First world questions...

[KamaAina]

3. Cuppa joe

hence the comparison to the infamous $4 slice of toast.

[jonno99]

4. Woa - and I feel like I'm splurging if I spend $15 on a bottle of wine. Thx. nt

[Ratty]

5. Is that the coffee pooped out by monkeys?

I've never heard of Finca Sophia and I live in the Bay Area. Is this the monkey poop coffee?

Oh, no I guess it isn't: http://www.themostexpensivecoffee.com/monkey-poop-coffee

[KamaAina]

6. No, and they're not monkeys, they're civet cats

[olddots]

7. simply mahhhhhhhhhhhhhhvelous

[petronius]

8. I don't have the palate to appreciate the kind of coffee that might cost $15/cup, and

I don't enjoy the ritual enough to pay that much, but I'm happy enough to point, laugh, and feel superior to those who do shell it out! (They can mock me back in their own way when they see the kind of wine I schlep out of Rite Aid...)

[mackerel]

9. As long as SF still has Philz coffee I'm good.

[dana_b]

10. I love Philz!

On Van Ness, yeah?

I went to the one in Berkeley recently. Such a good cup!