Three years. Sometimes it seems like a lot less, but usually (to me) it feels like a lot longer, for both positive and not-so-positive reasons.  I feel like Actual Cafe has become a fixture of the Golden Gate neighborhood, and we’ve accomplished much of what we set out to do here.  We’ve become a friendly [...]

We got our final permit and pre-construction inspection this week for our parklet, and all signs are GO! We’ve got our friend Wendell working on a frame for the base of the parklet, and we’re hoping to have the deck built and installed in just a few weeks.  We’ve got a bunch of benches, counters, [...]

The East Bay Express has named Actual Cafe Best Cafe 2012 in their annual Best of the East Bay issue! Thanks to our crew for doing such an awesome job! Thanks to all our customers who love us (and say so)! Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the Express Reader’s Poll! Not a [...]

Hey, Arbor Cafe! We’re so jazzed for Team Bike Challenge in May (thanks to Trumer Brauerei!), that we think we ought to create an East Bay Bike Friendly Cafe subdivision. We challenge you to a bike-off in May. We’ll use average miles per rider as our yardstick, so it’s fair. If you win, we’ll treat [...]

Trumer Brauerei has challenged Actual Cafe to compete in the Team/Company Bike Challenge during bike month this year, and we’ve accepted the challenge.  Trumer has added some twists to the competition, including our Trumer sales for the month as a factor (which you can all help us out with), but we’re pretty confident we can [...]

Another year ended, another year begun (a whole month ago, I know, but it’s been a busy month, and I haven’t had much time to sit and write). I like taking a few minutes to pause and reflect at times like this – to look back at what’s already happened, and look ahead at what’s [...]

Thanks for our friend Jeff Tiedeken, aka Monkey Likes Shiny, aka Dr. E-ville, aka… (ok, you get the idea) – he built an awesome bike-driven bingo machine for Bicycle Bingo. Photos and videos here…check it out!   [note: Older posts here (pre-April 2012) are copies of the originals at our old blog at blogspot. We won't be [...]

We’ve been working for a few months on an event that I’m really excited about, and that will launch in February (next week! on Groundhog Day!). It’s called Bicycle Bingo, and it’s a weekly fundraiser. We’ve teamed up with several not-for-profit orgs active in our neighborhood, and gotten sponsorship from Trumer, New Belgium, Lagunitas, and [...]

I have been meaning to sit down and write another ‘year end reflection’ sort of post, and haven’t had the time. This isn’t that post. I will write it. Soon. Pinky swear. In the meantime… I realized the other day while I was working on closing my books for the end of the 2011 that [...]