Edible San Francisco
Irish Coffee, Then and Now [Buena Vista Cafe]
by John Birdsall| OCTOBER 26, 2016
Excerpt:
That summer of 1952 was even more wintry than usual in San Francisco. The fogs of August dripped. De facto summer returned like it always did in September and October, but as November broke, the chill returned. Daytime highs settled in the 40s, and through the windows of the Buena Vista Café, veiled on the inside with cigarette smoke, the view out to Beach and Hyde must have been bleak.
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On the chilly night of November 10, a journalist with a thick glasses, a weasel’s face and a Pulitzer Prize (also a San Francisco Chronicle travel columnist) did something that would make the Buena Vista into something greater than merely an old-fashioned saloon on a dead corner. That night, Stanton Delaplane nailed down the recipe for Irish coffee.
… http://ediblesanfrancisco.ediblefeast.com/irish-coffee-then-now
The above older links didn’t work for me. Here’s the article from the site.
Tried it and liked the equilibrium between coffee and whisky. On our trip, we have tried another one in Ireland (airport), another style, very boozy. We preferred this Buena Vista Cafe’s version.
If you go around the corner to the BV store and buy the glasses, they come with a recipe. Pretty easy as long as you can get the cream to the proper “texture”.
Part of the charm, was to watch John Jeide making the Irish coffee, especially the part how the coffee was poured so approximately in each of the glasses in a row of 6 or so and how quickly he flushed the liquid from one glass to the next one to make them kind of equal in volume, with just a spoon.
the equilibrium between coffee and whisky. On our trip, we have tried another one in Ireland (airport), another style, very boozy. We preferred this Buena Vista Cafe’s version.
