Jon and Jillian Dolin operate Barefoot Coffee Roasters with the idea of treating coffee as a culinary product by delivering seasonal, farm-fresh beans with varied intense flavors.
Ritual Coffee Roasters is a San Francisco-based roaster that's racking up awards like the 2011 Nation’s Top 17 Coffee Roasters by CNN & Fortune Online and is top rated by Food & Wine magazine.
22. Verve Coffee Roasters, Santa Cruz, Calif. Verve is loved by Santa Cruz residents and visiting coffee geeks alike: it’s one of the top coffee shops-turned-roasters in California.
26. Blue Bottle Coffee, Various Locations No one can deny James Freeman’s contributions to the third wave of coffee. The founder and roaster put Blue Bottle on the map by individually brewing each cup of coffee for customers (a blessing and a curse, undoubtedly).
The organic, shade-grown, pesticide-free beans used are roasted just days earlier in vintage roasting machines, defining what’s now called "slow coffee."
14. Peregrine Espresso, Washington, D.C. How could we not include the holder of the title of best coffeehouse in the Eastern U.S. on our list? Peregrine beat out coffee shops from the East (and Canada) in a recent competition, ...
10. Intelligentsia, Various Locations Intelligentsia may be one of the fastest growing coffee chains in the nation; the chain is now expanding into San Francisco and New York City, on top of its locations in Los Angeles and Chicago, its home base.
8. Ritual Coffee Roasters, San Francisco There is no shortage of good coffee in San Francisco — but based on our panelists’ votes, Ritual Coffee Roasters blew the competition out of the water. ...
7. Stumptown, Various Locations Throw Stumptown into the great coffee debate, and you’ll get a variety of opinions. Some love it, some hate it. Some say it doesn’t deserve to be called a great coffee shop, that it’s gone corporate.
Mini-Me Washed Kaffa Forest
Location: Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Origin: Yirgacheffe growing region, southern Ethiopia
Roast: Medium-Dark
Est. Price: NT $1300/16 ounces
Verve is loved by Santa Cruz residents and visiting coffee geeks alike: it’s one of the top coffee shops-turned-roasters in California.
No one can deny James Freeman’s contributions to the third wave of coffee. The founder and roaster put Blue Bottle on the map by individually brewing each cup of coffee for customers (a blessing and a curse, undoubtedly).
How could we not include the holder of the title of best coffeehouse in the Eastern U.S. on our list? Peregrine beat out coffee shops from the East (and Canada) in a recent competition, ...
Intelligentsia may be one of the fastest growing coffee chains in the nation; the chain is now expanding into San Francisco and New York City, on top of its locations in Los Angeles and Chicago, its home base.
There is no shortage of good coffee in San Francisco — but based on our panelists’ votes, Ritual Coffee Roasters blew the competition out of the water. ...
Throw Stumptown into the great coffee debate, and you’ll get a variety of opinions. Some love it, some hate it. Some say it doesn’t deserve to be called a great coffee shop, that it’s gone corporate.