The Buena Vista Cafe - San Francisco, CA
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The Buena Vista is a café in San Francisco, California, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States in 1952. The Buena Vista Café originally opened in 1916 when the first floor of a boardinghouse was converted into a saloon.
Waymark Code: WM17FWW
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/14/2023
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In 1886 a lodging house and saloon stood across the street to your left. The establishment hosted dockworkers and those coming to frolic at the popular swimming cove of Black Point Beach, now Aquatic Park. It would be named the Buena Vista Cafe in 1899.
The Buena Vista, meaning "good view” in Spanish, moved to this corner around 1907 and was rebuilt in its current Queen Anne style in 1911. Back then, the "BeeVee,” as it is still called by locals, was a favorite gathering place for fishermen and waterfront denizens.
Irish coffee was invented in 1943 by Joe Sheridan at the flying boat terminal at Foynes Airport in Ireland, later to be crafted at the nearby Shannon Airport.
On November 10, 1952, owner Jack Koeppler challenged travel writer Stanton Delaplane to recreate the famous Irish beverage. After many experiments they matched the flawless recipe. This caffeinated elixir became so popular that Sheridan would immigrate to America to work at the Buena Vista Cafe.
To this day, both locals and visitors from around the world start their morning here with a drop of Irish dew in a warmed glass chalice of delight. One could humbly say that the Buena Vista Cafe perfected this delicious, frothy, cream-topped libation.
Dedicated October 3 2020 C.Y. 6025
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