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    Favorite Bay Area Cafes & Coffee Roasters

    Update September 2020: If you think the coffee / cafe scene is a moving target you would be right. When I published this list a few years ago, included were so many now-closed cafes including an awesome industrial cafe at a coffee roaster Uncommon Grounds and Farley in Emeryville. Blue Bottle had not yet been acquired by Nestle. During the COVID-19 pandemic, of course cafes are only for take-out. This has dramatically reduced or eliminated laptop thefts!?! Without further ado, here are some great spots for coffee around the Bay Area: I still have not quite hit upon a job that would entail going to a new cafe every day…