We’re not CitySearch here by any stretch, but a new Peet’s Coffee and Tea has moved into the neighborhood at 16th Avenue and Geary Boulevard here in San Francisco and as a coffee-swilling former Starbucks fan it has been a good new option, largely replacing the Starbucks down the street that never quite made it for atmosphere as it is built into a Wells Fargo.

So the Peets is good. They have good cold drinks along with strong, somewhat bitter and totally delicious coffee.

I don’t want any trouble with the neighborhood, but that is the one drawback to this Peets. The neighborhood, that is. We seem to have found people who would never go to one of the other coffee shops on the street like Royal Grounds or Starbucks or Joe’s Ice Cream but they are drawn to the wood paneling and old-fashioned Dutch chocolate coffee additives. These low-profile locals, mostly older and in small groups, have generally not attacked anyone but can sometimes form into feral packs. Be warned.

But if you can grab a coffee ring and hurtle out quickly enough (that will depend on how the line-routing rope happens to be placed that day) you get a solid cup and it’s well worth the locals.