Coffee to the People

The Haight & Hayes Valley


The people united will never be decaffeinated at this radical coffee house. Choose a bumper-sticker-covered table to match your politics (peace is perennially popular), admire hippie macramé on the walls and browse consciousness-raising books. Hemp-milk cappuccinos and turmeric lattes are acquired tastes, but beware the quadruple-shot Freak Out, which has enough fair-trade espresso to revive the Sandinista movement.


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