Caffe Trieste is a cafe in San Francisco.
Editorially verified May 18, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
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Address: 601 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
The Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco is the Hyde Street corner where Jack Koeppler perfected the American Irish coffee in 1952, pouring 2,000 of them a day.
DrinkIrish coffee
TipSit at the long bar to watch the line of pre-warmed glasses come down; the back tables miss the show.
Sightglass Coffee in San Francisco is the Morris brothers' SoMa roastery cafe, with a mezzanine over the rooftop roaster and the Owl's Howl espresso on tap.
DrinkOwl's Howl espresso
TipThe 7th Street flagship is the best room; the Mission and Ferry Building outposts are quicker but smaller.
Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco is one of the city's third-wave originals, with the Valencia Street flagship and a sharp single-origin filter.
DrinkSingle-origin filter
TipThe cortado is the regular order; the Hayes Valley kiosk has the fastest line on a weekend.
Saint Frank in San Francisco is the Russian Hill cafe and roastery known for direct-trade Latin American lots and a quietly precise cortado.
DrinkCortado
TipThe pour-over flight rotates weekly; ask for the lightest lot if you want to taste origin clearly.
Andytown in San Francisco is the Outer Sunset roastery cafe known for the Snowy Plover, a fizzy espresso-over-soda drink that became a city signature.
DrinkSnowy Plover
TipThe original 43rd Avenue location is the best pour; weekends are quieter at the 18th Avenue outpost.
Cafe Zoetrope in San Francisco is Francis Ford Coppola's flatiron corner cafe in the Sentinel Building, with a small Italian kitchen and house wine on tap.
DrinkCappuccino
TipThe sidewalk tables on Kearny are the seat to want; the cappuccino is the right midday order.
