Blue Bottle Coffee

Pacific Heights

HoursClosed · Opens 05:30

TypeRoaster · Global

Began as an Old Oakland Farmers Market cart, now 14 San Francisco cafés.

James Freeman started with a single cart selling roasted beans at the Old Oakland Farmers Market. Blue Bottle's Northern California page listed 14 San Francisco cafés when checked in October 2026, the Ferry Building among them.

Three Africas blends two Ethiopian coffees with a Rwandan lot, and the single origins in the online shop that month included Costa Rica, Mexico, and Brazil. Nestlé bought the chain in 2017, and in April 2026 it announced an agreement to sell the cafés and most of the packaged coffee business to Centurium Capital, expected to close in the first half of 2026.

At this shop

The shop takes the corner of a bay-windowed building on Fillmore Street, with a black chevron-tiled pillar between its two street fronts and a few chairs out on the sidewalk. Inside is one open room where people order at a pale wood counter along the back, and a tall window beside the retail shelves looks out through a street tree to the intersection.