Andrew Barnett talked with SF Eater about his vision for Linea, a project with Anthony Mynt at the corner of San Carlos and 18th Street.
My colleagues in San Francisco are doing very interesting things with coffee, but no one is doing what I dreamed of. I wanted something really pared down like Una Pizza Napoletana. They don’t have soups, or salads or main courses – just pizza. I wanted to focus on keeping it simple, on making good espresso and serving it to everyone.
I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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$5 coffee is not serving to everyone.