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LinksA few things you really ought know about. FoodSome of which we like so much we carry it.
11am-9pm, 7 days a week 510-665-9409 Zocalo gets all of our fine teas from Far Leaves. Not only do they have a wonderful selection, but Donna, the owner, is absolutely wonderful. She's in it for all the right reasons and doesn't compromise. Donna flies to the far reaches to buy her own teas and can tell you everything you need to know to make a wonderful tea. The shop's hours are amazing enough, but the place is a serene escape from everything and you can enjoy tea like no where else. Hidden City Cafe This is where we get our honey almond granola, the best we've run across! They do a wonderful breakfast. Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker Berkeley, CA Zocalo carries their fantastic chocolates... They make a wide range and have factory tours as well! Check out their site on the web for more details. Pearson's Bros Cream Soda Oakland, CA Mitch, about 15 friends, and I did a taste test of cream sodas. We ordered 26 different cream sodas and Pearson Bros came out on top by a large margin. Vatran’s Flying Sausages—CLOSED The best sandwiches in San Leandro! We'll be carrying some of their cold sandwiches in the near future, and Peter Vatran is the very first to carry Zocalo Coffee retail! Paradiso Restaurant Paradiso is San Leandro's best restaurant, hands down, and we're lucky enough to have them only a few doors down. I particularly recommend their Seared Ahi Tuna and Mitch really like's their creme brulee, but just about everything is excellent. They're open for lunch and dinner weekdays, dinner on weekends, and closed on Mondays. Full House Cafe 3719 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA (510) 482-2200 On MacArthur in the Laurel District, lmost directly across from World Grounds, a nice independent coffee house, sits this tiny and great breakfast spot. Good solid coffee, great food, clean and friendly, and I see the owner there everytime I'm in! The owner, by the way, worked at Mama's Royal Cafe (as did I in '88) on Broadway in Oakland and Bette's Diner among others, giving him quite the cafe heritage! 2458 N. Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719-3368 (520) 320-5203 Just recently found out these folks are roasters as well! Loved their coffee when I was in Tucson visiting my sister and brother-in-law. Wonderful drinks, really! They won best new business in '99 in fact. There's a review at http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/1999-07-22/chow.html. Cool StuffThe
KX-2 Paper Cup This is the cup Zocalo Coffeehouse now uses. It won 2nd place, Best in Show at the 2003 Coffee Fest! As they wrote, it "...provides the consumer with a cooler, more comfortable cup ... non-slip, textured surface also makes is easier to grip and boasts of a tighter-fitting lid ... eliminates the need for paper cup sleeves"
http://www.coffee-house.org.uk/cups.html http://www.aboutcoffee.net/2003_03_23_bcearc.html Cliff Stoll's Acme Klein Bottles You can't go wrong with a fourth dimension object in a 3 dimensional world. Buy one for the geek in your family! Or hey, get the mug klein bottle and have a latte in it! 1987, Wim Wenders, Dir. My favorite movie ever. Now available on DVD after being available only as pan and scan only on VHS forever. Be warned that it's in black and white and subtitled, but it's as beautiful as film can get in my opinion.
San LeandroMy home and the location of my business... San Leandro is a great city jammed in between Hayward and Oakland. Often unknown and unnoticed, this quite city has wonderful houses, is the 4th most diverse city in the bay area, and still has the charm that many of the larger cities around have lost (and until recently, lower housing prices than just about anywhere around). Here are a few links for more information. Neighborhoods Broadmoor Neighborhood Association (The BNA) Zocalo isn't actually IN this neighborhood, but it's only a half block outside of it and I'm (until about March or 2005) the president of the BNA, so I'm linking to it here. We do good stuff, serving as the "watchdog" of the area and working to prevent overdevelopment and the like. Estudillo HomeOwners Association (The EHOA) The EHOA is the association in which Zocalo Coffeehouse is located. They put out a monthly one-sheet newsletter. Other Sites The Official City of San Leandro site http://www.ci.san-leandro.ca.us/ The San Leandro Chamber of Commerce http://www.sanleandrochamber.com/ InsideBayArea.com http://community.insidebayarea.com/almanac/alamedacounty.asp?region=sanleandro Bay Area Census site http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/SanLeandro.htm Life Before ZocaloBefore my wife and I owned Zocalo Coffeehouse I worked in another world. Here's more about that... What can I say, after 15 years in the industry, and now a year out, there's still no question that Apple makes the best computer for every day use. They are fast, easy to use, stable, and look beautiful. A little anecdotal evidence? Well, how about the iMac that sits in Zocalo and hasn't needed a drop of maintenance all year? How about the fact that EVERY time someone asks me for help with the wireless it's a Windows user? How about the fact that in the 20 years I've been using a Mac I've never encountered a virus, not once... Mac Daily Journal (MDJ) Power "MDJ this week (July 2002) released the third annual MDJ Power 25 list. The list, distilled from surveys sent to industry movers and shakers (including journalists, executives, engineers, and Apple Computer insiders), is the Macintosh industry's only serious attempt to track the perception of power and influence in the community." Here's what they said about me: #5 - Tim Holmes 2000 rank: #10 2001 rank: #11 The most powerful Apple manager you’ve never heard of, Tim Holmes is the manager of the Mac OS Technology Group in Apple’s developer relations group. Long-time Macintosh owners remember the term evangelist thanks to Guy Kawasaki, one of the original two evangelists for the platform. An evangelist sells (or evangelizes) Apple’s technology to third-party software and hardware developers, in turn taking their concerns back to Apple’s engineering groups to resolve problems. When done well, evangelism is a critical bridge between the people making technology and the people who have to use it. When done poorly, it’s nothing more than parroting of the company line because the evangelist is too ineffective to get other Apple groups to listen and change. Tim Holmes is a good evangelist, which makes him a great choice to head the Mac OS evangelism group in developer relations. Holmes is well known to developers as well as to some users, having come to Apple after a stint at BMUG where he was editor of the BMUG Newsletter and of The Tao of AppleScript. Now at Apple for around seven years, Holmes’s job involves organizing developer events all over the world, including WWDC, all the developer kitchens, and meetings with individual developers. He attends MacHack, responds honestly when the answer won’t be popular, and leads a team of evangelists that are working more closely than ever with the top developers to keep the information flowing in two directions, both from and to Apple’s decision-makers. Although it’s a little old, you can read a 1999 interview Holmes gave to Dave Mark in the MacTech archives. Pros: Adam Engst says, “His energy, honesty, and willingness to identify spades accurately put him head and shoulders above any other Apple employee dealing with the public.” Such sentiments are typical among programmers, too, one of whom said Holmes was “pulling the weight of most of evangelism.” Programmer Leonard Rosenthol, who’s been involved with programs ranging from StuffIt to Acrobat, says, “Coming up from the ranks of BMUG, and bringing his understanding of what users want with him, Tim is able to steer both Apple and the developers towards his vision for the platform.” Holmes comes in at #5 because over 80% of his votes were in the #1 or #2 position in our admittedly small sample. those who know him think very highly of him. Cons: Not many. He’s blunt and somewhat cranky, but developers would rather hear cranky truth than pleasant stalling any day. By all accounts, Holmes loves his job and has brought much-needed stability to it, a satisfaction some pointy-haired bosses may see as lack of ambition. He’s not laying the groundwork to be the next Phil Schiller or Steve Jobs, but then again, there’s no sign he wants to be. As one Apple engineer put it, he’s just a “perennial power guy.” And what they said when I left Apple: Mac Daily Journal (MDJ)
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