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Specialty-only coffee shops in San Francisco Bay Area, hand-picked for the coffee first and the room second.

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Abanico Coffee Roasters

Abanico Coffee Roasters

Mission roaster and coffee shop sourcing from Latin American producers with a focus on women farmers.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Academic Coffee

Academic Coffee

SoFA District café selling its own San Jose-named blends.

SoFA District · San Jose, CA

Andytown Coffee Roasters

Andytown Coffee Roasters

Andytown's new downtown flagship on Kearny Street.

Financial District · San Francisco, CA

Andytown Coffee Roasters

Andytown Coffee Roasters

Andytown's original Outer Sunset café and bakery near Ocean Beach.

Outer Sunset · San Francisco, CA

Andytown Coffee Roasters

Andytown Coffee Roasters

Andytown's beach café on Taraval at 46th Avenue.

Outer Sunset · San Francisco, CA

Andytown Coffee Roasters

Andytown Coffee Roasters (Roastery)

Andytown's Taraval roastery, training lab and coffee-supply shop at 40th Avenue.

Outer Sunset · San Francisco, CA

Artis Coffee

Fourth Street café that roasts its coffee weekly right in the shop.

Fourth Street · Berkeley, CA

Attalus Coffee – Flagship

Downtown Vacaville flagship café of a specialty roaster based in town.

Downtown · Vacaville, CA

Bicycle Coffee

Jack London Square café and roastery of Bicycle Coffee, which roasts on site.

Jack London Square · Oakland, CA

Caffe Trieste

Historic North Beach espresso house on Vallejo Street that roasts its own coffee.

North Beach · San Francisco, CA

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Cappucho

Downtown Redwood City micro-roastery and café on Main Street.

Downtown Redwood City · Redwood City, CA

Catahoula Coffee Co.

Catahoula Coffee Co. – Richmond

Catahoula's original café, which is also the site of its roasting lab.

Richmond, CA

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters – Livermore

Livermore café of Sacramento roaster Chocolate Fish.

Livermore, CA

Chromatic Coffee

Chromatic Coffee

Midtown San Jose roastery café in the Arts Mercantile building, roasting its coffee in the same facility.

Midtown / Arts Mercantile · San Jose, CA

Clocktower Coffee Roasting Company

Clocktower Coffee Roasting Company

Neighborhood roaster café with breakfast items, espresso and beans to take home.

Mountain View, CA

Coffee & Water Lab

Coffee & Water Lab

West San Jose shop roasting single-origin coffees on an electric, zero-emissions Bellwether roaster.

West San Jose · San Jose, CA

Connoisseur Coffee Company

Connoisseur Coffee Company

Redwood City roaster since 1984 with a coffee bar beside its visible roastery.

Middlefield · Redwood City, CA

Craftsman Coffee

Craftsman Coffee

Pacifica roaster's first shop, grown from a mobile coffee van that now sits inside as the café's centerpiece.

Pacifica · Pacifica, CA

Dana Street Roasting Company

Dana Street Roasting Company

Downtown Mountain View's roaster café, selling its house-roasted beans.

Downtown · Mountain View, CA

Devout Coffee

Niles Boulevard café and roastery of a Fremont roaster that started in a garage in 2011.

Fremont, CA

Emerald Hills Cafe & Roastery

Emerald Hills Cafe & Roastery

Hillside Redwood City café and roastery serving its own single-origins and signature blends.

Emerald Hills · Redwood City, CA

Eon Coffee

Hayward coffeehouse whose coffee is roasted by hand by its own roast master.

Hayward, CA

Equator Coffees

Equator Coffees

Equator's café in the Fort Mason gatehouse by the Bay, pouring the Bay Area roaster's coffees with Boichik bagels and local pastries.

Marina / Fort Mason · San Francisco, CA

Equator Coffees

Equator Coffees – Sausalito

Waterfront Sausalito café of Bay Area roaster Equator, serving coffee and breakfast.

Sausalito, CA

Flywheel Coffee Roasters

Flywheel Coffee Roasters

Flywheel's downtown café on Battery Street, serving its small-batch roasts.

Financial District · San Francisco, CA

Flywheel Coffee Roasters

Flywheel Coffee Roasters

Haight-Ashbury café of Flywheel, an independent small-batch roaster, on Stanyan Street.

Haight-Ashbury · San Francisco, CA

Four Barrel Coffee

Four Barrel Coffee

Four Barrel's Valencia Street roastery café, which independently sources and roasts its coffee in the back, with no Wi-Fi by design.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Grand Coffee

The original Grand Coffee, a Mission Street coffee shop and roaster.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Grand Coffee Too

Grand Coffee's second Mission Street shop, pouring its own roasts.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Groovy Goose Coffee Roasters

Groovy Goose Coffee Roasters

Family-owned San Carlos café roasting single-origin coffee in house, with no Wi-Fi by design to encourage conversation.

Downtown San Carlos · San Carlos, CA

Highflier Coffee

Highflier Coffee

Compact Fairfield roaster café serving its fresh-roasted coffee.

Fairfield, CA

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire's Park Street café in Alameda.

Park Street · Alameda, CA

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Downtown Oakland café of Highwire, the East Bay roaster, on Broadway.

Downtown Oakland · Oakland, CA

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire's café at Flowerland on Solano Avenue in Albany.

Solano Avenue (Flowerland) · Albany, CA

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire's Montclair Village café in the Oakland hills.

Montclair Village · Oakland, CA

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire Coffee Roasters

Highwire's Walnut Creek café at The Waymark, just outside the BART station.

The Waymark (by BART) · Walnut Creek, CA

Home Coffee Roasters

Home Coffee Roasters – Chinatown

Grant Avenue café of Home Coffee Roasters.

Chinatown · San Francisco, CA

Home Coffee Roasters

Home Coffee Roasters – Richmond

Clement Street café of San Francisco's Home Coffee Roasters.

Richmond · San Francisco, CA

Home Coffee Roasters

Home Coffee Roasters – Sunset

Sunset café of a roaster that roasts in San Francisco.

Sunset · San Francisco, CA

Jaffa Coffee Roasters

Jaffa Coffee Roasters

Berkeley roaster and café on University Avenue roasting in small batches.

Downtown Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Journey Coffee Co.

Journey Coffee – Chadbourne Cafe

Journey's Fairfield café, home to its roasting department and in-house bakery since 2018.

Fairfield, CA

Journey Coffee Co.

Journey Coffee – One Lake Cafe

Lakefront Fairfield café of roaster Journey Coffee.

Fairfield, CA

Linea Caffe

Linea's café near Dolores Park.

Dolores Park · San Francisco, CA

Linea Caffe

Linea's tiny Mission District espresso bar, serving the San Francisco roaster's coffees.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Linea Caffe (Roastery & Café)

Linea's Potrero Hill roastery and café, where the company roasts its coffee.

Potrero Hill · San Francisco, CA

Masterpiece Coffee

Masterpiece Coffee

West Berkeley roaster and café on San Pablo Avenue.

West Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Mind Coffee

Northside Berkeley café that roasts its coffee in small batches in Berkeley.

Northside · Berkeley, CA

Moonwake Coffee Roasters

Moonwake Coffee Roasters

West San Jose café-roastery that roasts its coffee every Tuesday.

West San Jose · San Jose, CA

Mother Tongue Coffee

Mother Tongue Coffee

Oakland roaster's café-bar serving its own coffees by day plus small plates and a full cocktail bar.

Temescal / Piedmont Ave · Oakland, CA

Motivāt Coffee Roasters

Motivāt Coffee Roasters

Downtown Oakland roaster and café selling its own single-origin coffees.

Downtown Oakland · Oakland, CA

MY Coffee Roastery

MY Coffee Roastery

Downtown Berkeley café roasting in-house on Diedrich roasters.

Downtown Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Nirvana Soul Coffee

Nirvana Soul

Nirvana Soul's Main Street Cupertino café.

Main Street Cupertino · Cupertino, CA

Nirvana Soul Coffee

Nirvana Soul

Downtown San Jose café of Nirvana Soul, a sister-founded roaster that roasts in North San Jose.

SoFA District · San Jose, CA

Nirvana Soul Coffee

Nirvana Soul

Nirvana Soul's San Francisco café on Townsend Street.

SoMa · San Francisco, CA

Papachay Peruvian Coffee

Papachay Peruvian Coffee

San Carlos roaster and café specializing in high-elevation Peruvian coffees.

San Carlos · San Carlos, CA

Linea Caffe; Grand Coffee; guest roasters

Pinhole Coffee

Bernal Heights neighborhood café pouring Linea and Grand Coffee espresso plus rotating guest single origins as pour-over.

Bernal Heights · San Francisco, CA

Pink Owl Coffee

Pink Owl Coffee – Downtown

Pink Owl's downtown San Rafael coffee bar on Fourth Street.

Downtown · San Rafael, CA

Pink Owl Coffee

Pink Owl Coffee – West End

West End café of Marin roaster Pink Owl, focused on organic and fair-trade coffee.

West End · San Rafael, CA

Plantation Coffee Roastery

Plantation Coffee Roastery

San Carlos roastery café in business since 1981, opening at dawn with Wi-Fi, outlets and a sidewalk patio.

Downtown San Carlos · San Carlos, CA

Proyecto Diaz Coffee

Proyecto Diaz Coffee

Proyecto Diaz's Uptown Oakland café on Broadway.

Uptown Oakland · Oakland, CA

Proyecto Diaz Coffee

Proyecto Diaz Coffee

West Oakland café of Proyecto Diaz, an Oakland roaster that supplies cafés and restaurants across the Bay Area.

West Oakland · Oakland, CA

Red Bay Coffee

Red Bay's Berkeley café on Alcatraz Avenue.

South Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Red Bay Coffee

Red Bay's Grand Lake café, serving the Oakland roaster's coffees by Lake Merritt.

Grand Lake · Oakland, CA

Red Bay Coffee

Red Bay's San Francisco Financial District café on Montgomery Street.

Financial District · San Francisco, CA

Red Bay Coffee (Roastery)

Red Bay's Fruitvale roastery, open weekday mornings for coffee from the Oakland roaster.

Fruitvale · Oakland, CA

Red Whale Coffee

Red Whale Coffee Bar

Daily coffee bar at the Marin roaster's San Rafael base, with cuppings and events.

San Rafael, CA

Ritual Coffee Roasters

Ritual Coffee Roasters

Ritual's Hayes Valley coffee bar in the Proxy shipping-container plaza, serving the roaster's own coffees.

Hayes Valley · San Francisco, CA

Ritual Coffee Roasters

Ritual Coffee Roasters

Ritual's flagship Valencia Street café in the Mission, pouring the San Francisco roaster's own coffees.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Ritual Coffee Roasters

Ritual Coffee Roasters

Ritual's Napa coffee bar inside Oxbow Public Market, pouring the San Francisco roaster's coffees.

Downtown Napa · Napa, CA

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank's Peninsula café on Alma Street in Menlo Park.

Downtown Menlo Park · Menlo Park, CA

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank's café at the Mira tower on Folsom Street near the waterfront.

Rincon Hill (Mira) · San Francisco, CA

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank's Russian Hill café on Polk Street, pouring the roaster's own coffees.

Russian Hill · San Francisco, CA

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank Coffee

Saint Frank's Inner Sunset café on Irving Street.

Inner Sunset · San Francisco, CA

Sextant Coffee Roasters

Sextant Coffee Roasters

Sextant's third San Francisco café, on 3rd Street near Yerba Buena.

SoMa / Yerba Buena · San Francisco, CA

Sextant Coffee Roasters

Sextant Coffee Roasters

SoMa café of Sextant Coffee Roasters on Folsom Street.

SoMa · San Francisco, CA

Sextant Coffee Roasters

Sextant Coffee Roasters

Sextant's Valencia Street café in the Mission.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Sightglass Coffee

Sightglass Coffee

Sightglass's Berkeley café on University Avenue, serving the San Francisco roaster's coffees.

Downtown Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Sightglass Coffee

Sightglass Coffee

Sightglass café on Divisadero Street, pouring the San Francisco roaster's coffees.

Lower Haight / NoPa · San Francisco, CA

Sightglass Coffee

Sightglass Coffee

Sightglass's Mission District café on 20th Street, serving the San Francisco roaster's own coffees.

Mission · San Francisco, CA

Sightglass Coffee

Sightglass Coffee

SoMa café of Sightglass, the San Francisco roaster, on 7th Street.

SoMa · San Francisco, CA

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

Small SIGNAL outpost near the Alameda Theatre on Central Avenue.

Downtown Alameda · Alameda, CA

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL's first café, in a historic 1916 building on Webster Street in Alameda.

West End · Alameda, CA

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

Downtown Berkeley café of SIGNAL, a small-batch Bay Area roaster, across from BAMPFA.

Downtown Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL's San Francisco café where North Beach meets Fisherman's Wharf.

North Beach / Fisherman's Wharf · San Francisco, CA

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL Coffee Roasters

SIGNAL's Solano Avenue café, serving its house-roasted small-batch coffees.

North Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Soul Grind Coffee Roasters

Soul Grind Coffee Roasters

Beachside Pacifica café near Linda Mar that roasts all of its coffee in house.

Linda Mar · Pacifica, CA

Steeltown Coffee & Tea

Steeltown Coffee & Tea

Old Town Pittsburg café in the Mechanics Bank building that roasts all its beans in-house.

Old Town · Pittsburg, CA

Suju's Coffee & Tea

Suju's Coffee & Tea

Family-owned Fremont coffee company, running since 1992, that small-batch roasts at its own roastery.

Fremont, CA

The Caffè by Mr. Espresso

First café of Mr. Espresso, the family-run Oakland roaster founded in 1978, serving its oakwood-roasted beans.

Downtown Oakland · Oakland, CA

Multi-roaster (rotating)

The Coffee Movement

Small multi-roaster espresso bar on Washington Street, rotating coffees from several roasters.

Chinatown / Nob Hill · San Francisco, CA

Multi-roaster (rotating)

The Coffee Movement

The Coffee Movement's Inner Richmond bar, rotating multi-roaster coffees.

Inner Richmond · San Francisco, CA

Royal Coffee (green importer; rotating roasts)

The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room

Royal Coffee's public tasting room and lab, pouring pour-overs, espresso and tasting flights from the importer's live inventory, with cuppings and classes.

Uptown Oakland · Oakland, CA

The Yard

Redwood City café roasting in house at the historic Offerman House, with community events.

Downtown Redwood City · Redwood City, CA

Timeless Coffee

Timeless Coffee & Bakery

Timeless's downtown Oakland café, pouring coffee roasted at its Piedmont Avenue shop with plant-based baked goods.

Downtown Oakland · Oakland, CA

Timeless Coffee

Timeless Coffee & Bakery

Piedmont Avenue café that roasts its coffee on site and bakes plant-based pastries.

Piedmont Avenue · Oakland, CA

Verve Coffee Roasters

Verve Coffee Roasters

Verve's Upper Market café on Market Street, serving the Santa Cruz roaster's coffees.

Upper Market · San Francisco, CA

Verve Coffee Roasters

Verve Coffee Roasters

Verve's Palo Alto café on University Avenue.

Downtown Palo Alto · Palo Alto, CA

Voltaire Coffee Roasters

Voltaire Coffee Roasters

Downtown San Jose café roasting its own beans in-house.

Downtown San Jose · San Jose, CA

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager café on The Alameda in Santa Clara.

The Alameda · Santa Clara, CA

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager's Cupertino café on Stevens Creek Boulevard.

Cupertino · Cupertino, CA

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager's original Santa Clara café, roasting its own craft coffee.

Stevens Creek · Santa Clara, CA

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager Craft Coffee

Voyager's downtown San Jose café with a baking program.

Downtown San Jose · San Jose, CA

Weaver's Coffee & Tea

Weaver's Coffee & Tea

San Rafael roastery and coffee shop focused on medium and dark roasts.

San Rafael, CA

Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters

Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters

Cow Hollow café of Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters on Union Street.

Cow Hollow · San Francisco, CA

Zocalo Coffeehouse

North End San Leandro café and coffee roastery selling its own beans.

North End · San Leandro, CA