California

Coffee Cycle Rolls Into San Diego’s Ocean Beach

Among the eclectic mom-and-pop shops, the farmers market, ocean breezes mixed with patchouli, surf-loving dogs and other delights of Ocean Beach in San Diego is the newest, biggest outpost of...

2025.02.17

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After Destruction in LA, Caffe Luxxe Says, ‘We Are Bent but Not Broken’

Amidst the torrent of socio-political and environmental issues that the Los Angeles wildfires have unleashed, the most enduring tragedy remains the loss of homes. No fewer than 12,000 structures were...

2025.02.14

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Carlo Di Ruocco, the Original Mr. Espresso, Dies at 90

Carlo Di Ruocco, the Italian-born founder of the California roasting company Mr. Espresso who helped introduce espresso to a generation of Americans, died in his sleep on Jan. 17 at...

2025.01.29

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Offbeat Coffee is On Point in Sacramento

The tempo is running fast at the first brick-and-mortar location of Sacramento, California’s Offbeat Coffee, which held a soft opening last week. In a long, 3,000-square-foot space, wooden furniture, concrete...

2025.01.28

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It’s Always Full Bloom at Tselia Coffee in Greenville, SC

The cherry blossoms never fade at a new family-run cafe and roastery in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, called Tselia Coffee, where two life-size replica cherry blossom trees set an otherworldly...

2025.01.28

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Coffee Holding Co. Sues Texas Broker Over Missing Coffee Shipment

New York-based green coffee trading and roasting company Coffee Holding Co. filed a lawsuit accusing a Texas-based logistics broker of contract and negligence after a coffee shipment worth more than...

2025.01.15

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Creature’s Plants & Coffee Offers Multiple Comforts in LA

A hybrid plant nursery and coffee shop named Creature’s Plants & Coffee opened in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles last fall, creating connections between plants, people and coffee. ...

2025.01.08

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Em Coffee House Brings Modern Vietnam to San Diego

The owners of the San Diego-based Ding Tea bubble tea chain expanded earlier this fall with a cafe concept that celebrates Vietnamese coffee called Em Coffee House. Opened Nov. 18,...

2024.12.18

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Inaugural Oakland Coffee Market Happening December 14

It’s well established that coffee stuff is the only gift worth giving. Luckily for people in the Bay Area, a new in-person popup market called the Oakland Coffee Market is...

2024.12.03

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Verve Coffee Roasters’ Latest Fixation is the Dwell Dripper

It’s rare for a coffee roasting company to get into equipment development, yet Colby Barr and a team at California’s Verve Coffee Roasters kept ruminating on the concept that a...

2024.11.04

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