The Siphon Bar: Did Coffee Lovers Just Find Their Haute Couture Equivalent?

The Siphon Bar: Did Coffee Lovers Just Find Their Haute Couture Equivalent?

coffee_beansPARIS, Jan 23, 2008 / FW/ — Tomorrow is the last day of the Paris haute couture season, but in San Francisco, coffee lovers will be starting to drink their special coffee made by a Japanese siphon bar at the Blue Bottle Café.

Called the ‘$20,000 Cup of Coffee’ by the New York Times, referring to the coffee maker named a ‘siphon bar,’ it was imported from Japan at a total cost of more than $20,000.

Read the rest of the story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/dining/23coff.html

[MARI DAVIS]