My spouse and I ate breakfast at the Buena Vista Cafe in
mid-August 2012. This restaurant is located in Terminal 3 at the San Francisco
Airport. The historic venture started on the night of November the 10th in
1952. Jack Koeppler, then-owner of the Buena Vista, challenged international
travel writer Stanton Delaplane to help re-create a highly touted "Irish
Coffee" served at Shannon Airport in Ireland. Intrigued, Stan Accepted
Jack's invitation, and the pair began to experiment immediately. Throughout the
night the two of them stirred and sipped judiciously and eventually acknowledged
two recurring problems. The taste was "not quite right," and the
cream would not float. Stan's hopes sank like the cream, but Jack was
undaunted. The restaurateur pursued the elusive elixir with religious fervor,
even making a pilgrimage overseas to Shannon Airport. Upon Jack's return, the
experimentation continued. Finally, the perfect-tasting Irish whiskey was
selected. Then the problem of the bottom-bent cream was taken to San
Francisco's mayor, a prominent dairy owner. It was discovered that when the
cream was aged for 48 hours and frothed to a precise consistency, it would
float as delicately as a swan on the surface of Jack's and Stan's special
nectar. Success was theirs! With the recipe now mastered, a sparkling clear,
six-ounce, heat-treated goblet was chosen as a suitable chalice. Soon the fame
of the Buena Vista's Irish Coffee spread throughout the land. Today, it's still
the same delicious mixture, and it's still the same clamorous, cosmopolitan
Buena Vista.
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