The following hours are tentative–Song may adjust them as she sees how things go. She put in a kitchen, and, while she doesn’t do weekend brunch or the full breakfasts served at the north-side Songbird, she does have breakfast sandwiches, and lunch is the same. Most important, instead of Great Lakes’ slightly incongruent mash-up of coffee shop and retail outlet for chocolate and small gifts, this is a true restaurant. There’s more seating, and she’s redecorated to make it warmer (though she says it’s “a little darker, not as rustic” as Songbird on Plymouth). Songbird Cafe’s very own coffee roast Bird Brain is a mild blend, delicious and smooth. 1085 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 415.369.9161. Our goal is to produce nuanced, complex, and clean coffee while cultivating relationships with the farms. Our guiding principle is to restore some of the ingredients that were essential to the food history of the land around us. But she’s smoothed over some of the other kinks Great Lakes had. Birdsong is set out to explore, discover and showcase the original cuisine of the Pacific Northwest. The new Songbird is in an awkward location–in heavy traffic, it takes a nimble touch to get in or out from several directions. location had the same kind of instant success–even when a Starbucks opened just across the parking lot, it didn’t seem to put a dent in her traffic. Sweet without sugar, mellow without cream, it is a great breakfast coffee. Song seems to have a magic touch: she has managed to populate the new place almost instantly with studious-looking people tapping into laptops and drinking expensive coffee drinks. Nutty Smooth Milk Chocolate Fruity, nutty and chocolaty with hints of dried mango. It was very homey, I loved that the bar was front and center.” Her first one is thriving, she says, and “I was drawn to this place. ![]() “I was looking for a second place, something smaller, where we could edit down our menu,” says Jenny Song, explaining why she opened her second Songbird Cafe in the former Great Lakes Coffee on Jackson.
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