The FAMOUS IRISH COFFEEat the Buena Visit Cafe!
A MUST BEFORE ANY BLUE ANGELS SHOW! Two is way better than one, and after THREE, you can scoot up Hyde St. faster than any CABLE CAR.
"After two, before the sip of the third,
things in the background go sort of soft.
Photo compositition goes a little ascew.
Sometime during the last sip of the second,
a warm cozy glow envelopes you.
After the third, all you want to do is climb
the San Francisco hills and breath the heavens."
The IRISH COFFEE STORY (borrowed from the Buena Vista Cafe's website). The historic venture started on the night of November the 10th in 1952. Jack Koeppler, then the owner of the Buena Vista Cafe, challenged international travel writer Stanton Delaplane to help re-create a highly touted "Irish Coffee" served at Shannon Airport in Ireland. Intriqued, Stan accepted Jack's invitation, and the pair began to experiment immediately.
Throughout the night the two of them stirred and sipped judiciously and eventually acknowledged two recurring problems. The taste was "not quite right", and the cream would not float. Stan's hopes sank like the cream, but Jack was undaunted. The restaurantateur pursued the elusive elixir with religious fervor, even making a pilgrimage overseas to Shannon Airport.
Upon Jack's return, the experimentation continued. Finally, the perfect-tasting Irish whiskey was selected. Then the problem of the bottom-bent cream was taken to San Francisco's mayor, a prominent dairy owner. It was discovered that when the cream was aged foro 48 hours and frothed to a precise consistency, it would float as delicately as a swan on the surface of Jack's and Stan's special nectar.
Success was theirs! With the recipe now mastered, a sparkling clear, six-ounce, heat-treated goblet was chosen as a suitable chalice. Soon the fame of the Buena Vista's Irish Coffee spread throughout the land....today, it's still the same delicious mixture, and it's still the same clamorous, cosmopolitan Buena Vista.
THE BUENA VISTA CAFE
2765 Hyde St. @ Beach
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone: 415-474-5044
M-F 9am-2am, Weekends 8am-2am
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