For: drip coffee or a latte. Or both.

Why: Because it’s a rarity: a community coffee shop doing it right. It has delicious coffee + a great community space (art – good art!, local publications, wi-fi, board games, local characters – and not the drunk homeless kind; the half-drunk retired kind).

Genre/vibe/ambiance: cool community. Owner tinkering around behind the bar or shouting something down from the office. Lots of tables inside and a few small tables street-side. The latest local photographer’s work vibrantly covering the walls. “Mother Jones” and “Dwell” available for purchase, “Common Ground” and “The Guardian” gratis.

Other bonuses: Ask the cute barista about how his Hipster or Homeless? game turned into Blue Tooth or Crazy? . . . and eventually sparked my own version: Christian or Canadian? (and also, when driving, Asian or Elderly? though this admittedly makes people laugh and then call me a bigot).

Plus, Pets on Parade. Every Halloween Farleys sponsers this daytime costume party . . . with pets. And in San Francisco, this means more than some blonde’s Chihuahua in a Superman costume. Last year’s winner (in my opinion) was a giant Iguana dresses as Tinkerbell.