The Buena Vista Cafe

San Francisco, United States of America

The Buena Vista is a café in San Francisco, California, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States in 1952. The Buena Vista Café originally opened in 1916 when the first floor of a boardinghouse was converted into a saloon. The current owners also operated the Trident in Sausalito,

which closed on December 31, 2025.

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