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Places, drives, and roasters we love.
Coffee is worth a drive. These are the places we went and the people pouring when we got there — Echo Park, Half Moon Bay, the Gaslamp Quarter at seven in the morning, a car park in Carson before the marine layer lifts, and one café in Bangalore that we still think about.
From the archive
- Jul 2026
Cars and Coffee, 6:40am
A parking lot, somebody warming up a flat-six, and a cup that matters more than it should.
- Aug 2025
Lido Marina Village
Newport, boats, marine layer. Fifteen minutes from where this started.
- Sep 2023
ARAKU, Bangalore
Terroir-mapped, organic, grown in the Eastern Ghats — and roasted in a café in Indiranagar.
- Mar 2019
The Gaslamp Quarter, 7am
San Diego before it wakes up is a different city entirely.
- Jun 2018
Half Moon Bay
North on Highway 1, into fog that never quite burns off.
- Oct 2014
Echo Park
A morning walked end to end, one cup at a time.