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A Nationwide Coffee Fundraiser For The ACLU

Update: We now have a complete map of all the participating cafes here. To see a list of companies who are helping match donations from those cafes, please click here. Many of you are joining us from...

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An Hour In The Life Of Blue Bottle Berkeley

Just a sip or two into a Guatemalan single-origin drip at the new Blue Bottle Coffee in Berkeley and I’m already being regaled by an elderly gentleman hunkered down next me: how he was mysteriously...

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Four Barrel Fights For The Future Of Cold Coffee

On a recent warm morning in West Oakland, I walked into a sunlit warehouse by the freeway and was presented with what I believe to be the future of cold coffee. The space—Four Barrel‘s new roasting...

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Back To The Beginning With Blue Bottle’s Old Oakland Cafe

Fifteen years ago, Blue Bottle founder James Freeman sold his first bag of coffee at the Old Oakland Farmer’s Market at Broadway and 9th. Freeman at the time was roasting his beans in a...

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RAWR Oakland: Come For The Coffee, Stay For The Cats

Credit Cat Flower Garden for the recent upsurge in animal cafes. The Taiwanese spot became the first place to satisfy both your caffeine fix and cuddle-puddle needs around 1998, though since then the...

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The Most Critical Barista Training? It Could Be Mental Health

While it’s not often acknowledged, baristas in the Bay Area—and in cities around the world—deal with mental health crises every day. Since many work in city centers with high rates of homelessness and...

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Equator Coffees’ Quiet Expansion Into Oakland

Over the past few years, the North Bay’s Equator Coffees & Teas has quietly expanded south to San Francisco, opening shops on Market, in Fort Mason, and SOMA. It has been—as much as the opening of...

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Red Bay Coffee: Building For The Future In Oakland (And Beyond)

Red Bay Coffee founder Keba Konte first got into coffee as a way to promote his art. But in the 13 years since then, he’s found, and showed countless others, that coffee is not only the perfect...

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The Crown: Inside Royal Coffee’s Stunning New Oakland Coffee Complex

In a first look four years in the making, today we’re taking you inside The Crown, the stunning new coffee experience complex from Oakland green coffee importers Royal Coffee. In a world of cookie...

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Get Hired And Wired At The World’s First Coffee Job Fair

Now that the reboot of Tales of The City on Netflix has put the Bay Area back on the map we’re sure that folks across the country (and around the world) are clamoring to take a bite of that Golden...

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