"Vintage coffee fans must attend to the mosaic tiled tables outside Caffe Trieste. This is indeed one of the touchstones for Godfather fans, Francis Ford Coppola making this shop and others throughout North Beach his haunt as he brought the Corleones to the silver screen. The coffee won’t blow your mind; it’s dark as midnight and sweet as sin, as it’s been written. But hearing the faint squawk of a wild parrot while working through a cannoli might be as timeless a San Francisco taste as they come." - Paolo Bicchieri