2023 Year In ReviewTen New Coffee Shops Along the West Coast
2023 was an exciting year for specialty coffee on the West Coast, with no shortage of intrepid new cafe designs and global coffee connections made on hyper-local levels. While many...
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2023 Year In Review
Business OperationsWith New Roastery, Proyecto Diaz is Readying First Cafe in Oakland
An established roasting company with roots in Oaxaca, Mexico, Proyecto Diaz Coffee is opening its first brick-and-mortar cafe this week in Oakland, California. Coffees for the shop will be coming...
Ana Belén SalatinoMexico-Focused Café Cuate Offers Coffee with Gusto in Long Beach
Long Beach, California-based Mexican sourdough bakery Gusto Bread has expanded its cafe to include an extensive new roasted coffee program under the name Café Cuate. Between the remodeled shop’s almond-colored...
AKA CoffeePostscript is a Fresh Addition to San Francisco’s Coffee Scene
A new cafe, specialty food market and juice bar called Postscript is adding to a previously sleepy corner of the Financial District of San Francisco. The new spot notably includes...
California/PacificKona Coffee Farmers and Kroger Accuse Each Other of Breaching $13.5 Million Settlement
In a case that has produced more than 900 court documents and more than $5.8 million in attorneys’ fees since 2019, lawyers representing a group of coffee producers in Hawaii...
2024 Roaster of the YearRoast Magazine Announces 2024 Roaster of the Year Winners
Bridge City Coffee and Verve Coffee Roasters have won Roast magazine’s 20th annual Roaster of the Year award. The two coffee roasting companies will be featured in the trade publication’s...
Annie KoTelescope Coffee Stretches Out with New San Francisco Cafe
Founded by two childhood friends in San Francisco, the two-year-old independent coffee shop Telescope Coffee has broadened its horizons through a move into a new, larger location in the SoMa...
Benjamin BrewerBlue Bottle Coffee Hosting $75 Seated Popup Tastings in LA
Oakland, California-born Blue Bottle Coffee is launching a six-week popup in Los Angeles called Blue Bottle Studio. Resembling a culinary popup that might be found in the fine dining world,...
Austin Coffee FestivalOrganizers of SF Coffee Festival Bringing Events to More US Cities
This fall, the agency behind the popular San Francisco Coffee Festival is bringing back a second Austin Coffee Festival, as well as the inaugural DC Coffee Festival and the inaugural...
Amy QuangIn San Francisco, Outset Coffee Finds a Ripe Market for Fruit Lattes
Immediately perking up the San Francisco Mission District is Outset Coffee, a new shop whose fruit-forward and Asian-inspired coffee drinks are raising the bar for creative flavors and textures. The...