Examiner reporter Natalia Gurevich (left) learning how to make Irish Coffee from John “Jedi” Jeide (right) with the first step of warming up the glass with hot water at the Buena Vista at 2765 Hyde St ...

Your San Francisco itinerary should include some of the city’s classic culinary dishes, drinks, and snacks. Not sure where to ...

Bartender Paul Nolan adds cream to Irish coffees at the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, April 2, 2011. The two bars that serve the most lauded Irish Coffees in the world are ...

On the Northeast corner of the peninsula, about a mile west from the noisy sea lions and narrative capitalism of Pier 39, is a San Francisco institution called The Buena Vista. The Buena Vista is a ...

This venerable San Francisco outpost might not have invented the Irish coffee, but it certainly has perfected it over the years. Per the bar's lore, in the early 1950s the combined efforts of the ...

You don’t need a specific, shamrock-adjacent date to enjoy Irish Coffee. They’re poured year round at San Francisco’s Buena Vista Cafe, where then-bar Jack Koeppler and San Francisco newspaper ...

Irish Coffee is “the real coffee cocktail GOAT,” write the co-authors of “But First, Coffee,” a new cookbook about all things coffee. Authors Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen praise San ...

As San Franciscans grapple with the cold this holiday season, some will flock to the Buena Vista Cafe on the corner of Hyde and Beach streets to indulge in the specialty that’s made the iconic bar and ...