Iβve composed a kind of personal map of caffeine, an informal, evolving map charting the coffeehouses and tea rooms Iβve visited across Northern California, and further afield where memory permits. This project is not comprehensive, nor is it neutral. I have deliberately excluded the ubiquitous chains such as Starbucks and Dutch Bros, not out of disdain but in quiet allegiance to the more idiosyncratic establishments, those whose charm lies in their scale, their slowness, their local inflections. It is a map of loyalty, really, a record of where Iβve chosen to return, to make myself a regular, if not yet a known quantity.
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