Restaurant Review: Quetzal, San Francisco, CA

Quetzal
1234 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA
415-673-4181
http://coffeeandcocoa.com/

* Eat-in or take-out
* Cash only
* Limited metered parking on street

Quetzal is a coffee shop catering specifically to laptop/internet users, on Polk Street in the Nob Hill/Tenderloin area. The coffee is fair trade, organic, etc. more importantly strong and pretty decent. The WiFi is free, but you must ask for the WEP key at the time of purchase as they change the password every day. The tables also have plenty of power outlets and they seem to be cool with you being there for like hours at a time working on whatever. The website says something about them charging 8 bucks a day for WiFi use, but they don't actually charge anything for it (maybe that's at their Memphis location). There are also nine Macintosh terminals at the usual rate of about $6 an hour, if you do not happen to be decked out with a laptop or other wireless gadgetry.

If you want real food they do have breakfasts, sandwiches and pizza, as well as smoothies and sodas (and they even serve beer, drinking and internet woooo). Food prices are pretty high (ten bucks for a sandwich wtf?!) but they assure you that all ingredients are organic, if that makes a difference for you. I'm happy just with coffee or hot chocolate, myself. Also, they keep good hours - opening around 6am most days to 10 or 11pm. They're also open on all holidays. Would be fantastic for students if they were 24 hours, but oh well - that's still better than most places.