My espresso
The museum’s dark-blue stainless steel cube slices into the 1907 power substation’s brick building
Location: Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Date visited: 11 August 2013
A brilliant building housing two excellent exhibitions: seventy photographs by Allen Ginsberg and Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art work by 50 artists from SFMOMA’s collection, ranging from a 1914 abstraction by Piet Mondrian to a 1960 abstraction by Mark Rothko.
The cafe opened on 26 July 2013. The menu included:
- Hot Pastrami, rubbed with coriander and black pepper then smoked over Hickory
- Hot corned beef, brined for a week with garlic and Wise Sons blend of spices.
This was a different SF cafe experience: no laptops, maybe because there was no free WiFi, instead, people are talking to each other!