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This Blue Bottle Coffee outlet is located inside the SFMOMA museum on the 5th Floor Rooftop Garden. It's a rather elite affair given the open space and the artwork surrounding it. There's seating among the large modern sculptures on concrete floors and benches, but there are also white metal café tables for seating. They use Mazzer and Astoria grinders, offer Bonmac filters for single origin drip, and (quite unusual for Blue Bottle) a three-group Mirage Irsocompresso Triplette with manual levers. They pull espresso shots with a medium brown crema and darker brown spots. It's served quite short for a doppio, but it's the right amount of potent: very well balanced, broad flavor profile of herbs, pungency, and some tobacco and honey. They use a special SFMOMA blend of five different beans, and it is a true blend - almost something of a rarity in the U.S. It's one of the best homogenized examples of a blend that Blue Bottle offers, so hopefully they will make it more widely available. Served in a Heath ceramics demitasse with a side of sparkling water.
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