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[serene]

The new Peet's in Berkeley finally opened.

I am up at 12:16am.

These two things may be related.

(Yummiest soy latte I've ever had, by the way.)

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[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

Hah! Where is this one?

-- Charlotte

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I don't know the streets well yet, but it's on Shattuck, past Haste but not quite as far as Center. About a block north of Pegasus Books, if that's any help, on the same side of the street.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Whee, where? The new one in Fremont's due to open soon. I've been drinking Peet's since there was a tiny handful of stores, and I keep waiting for the quality to go down as they enlarge, but it hasn't. That said, the first "in-store" coffee I've had that was bad came right after they started serving "Freddos," the pseudofrappucinos. I figured there was a strong causal relationship. ;)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

It's on Shattuck, almost as far north as what we call "downtown Berkeley" -- not quite as far north as the BART station.

And I haven't tried a frappuccino or however they're spelled, but I liked the caramel mocha I got at the san diego Peet's after I finally convinced them I wanted it with coffee and not with Chai.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Frappucino is actually a Starbucks thing, trademarked I think. "Freddo" is the Peet's version of the same thing, like a coffee slurpee. Peet's never was into flavored fancy coffee like that before, so I was a bit appalled.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Frappucino is actually a Starbucks thing

Yeah, that's why I said I've never tried it -- I've yet to enter a Starbucks, and I don't intend to start. :-)

[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

I was pleased when I learned this past Christmas season that Peet's was now brewing eggnog lattes (sounds weird. tastes great) so I didn't have to stop at the Evil Coffee Empire for my weekly fix while shopping on North Shattuck.

I thought there was a Peet's on that stretch of Shattuck already, silly me. Shows how often I go downtown .

-- Charlotte

[firecat]

[loud squeaky voice] PEETS! [/lsv]

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[leback.livejournal.com]

So I have no interesting coffee-related content (though I will note that reading this threatens to trigger the mighty craving I've been ignoring bouts of for several days), but I thought I would speak up here to announce that I'm friends-listing you, as I've decided it's imperative that I have another forum in which to be delighted by the things you write. :-)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*bounce* Cool. :-)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

(I promise not to hold it against you if you're stultified rather than delighted at my journal. It's a pretty rambly mixed bag most days.)