Do you remember when Starbucks was cool? It opened in Seattle in the 1970s as a local specialty roaster, a trendy alternative to the prevailing generic swill. Then former employee Howard Schultz ...

As the founder of Blue Bottle Coffee, James Freeman has put his personal stamp on dozens of cafes across the United States and Japan. So when he and his wife, Caitlin Freeman, a pastry chef and a ...

Blue Bottle Coffee opened Tuesday on Abbot Kinney, and it opened in perhaps the most fitting place for Blue Bottle to open in L.A.: in the former home of Equator Books, which was home to a cafe ...

Blue Bottle Coffee is going old-school. They’re packing coffee in aluminum cans. We’ve seen wine in a can recently and cold brew coffee, of course. But single origin coffee beans? “What’s old is new ...

Ellen Fort is a Nashville-based writer and editor covering the restaurant industry, food trends, recipes, and beyond. She has worked as editor for Eater SF, Sunset Magazine, and SAVEUR. The Market ...

Founded in Oakland in the early 2000s, the business has since expanded to include dozens of cafes across the U.S., Japan and Korea. Though roasting had occurred in the Bay Area since the company’s ...

In a surprise move, Oakland-based cult coffee roaster Blue Bottle Coffee is acquiring two Los Angeles coffee businesses -- Handsome Coffee Roasters in the downtown Arts District and Tonx, the ...