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Good for working

11 cafés

Cafés where you can settle in with a laptop, and why we’d work there.

Financial District/South Beach

Home Coffee Roasters4.4(755)·Closed · Opens 08:00Customers work on laptops at a long timber communal table and a corner window bench, and a built-in banquette with ledge seating runs along the right wall. The shop opens at 7:30.Blue Bottle Coffee4.4(365)·Closed · Opens 07:30A long communal table with stools stands in the middle of the room, with a bench and round tables along the tall windows. The shop opens at 6:00 on weekdays.Blue Bottle Coffee4.4(1.3k)·Closed · Opens 08:00Round marble tables with wooden chairs fill the middle of the room, and a window counter with stools runs along the street wall. The shop opens at 6:30 on weekdays.

Haight Ashbury

Réveille Coffee4.4(818)·Closed · Opens 07:00Customers work on laptops at the fixed tables with wooden stools along the left wall and at tables in the wooden parklet outside. The shop opens at 7:00 and closes at 19:30.Flywheel Coffee Roasters4.4(1.3k)·Closed · Opens 07:00Customers work on laptops at the window tables and high stools inside the front glass, and a wooden deck patio with a few tables sits out back. The shop opens at 7:00.

Russian Hill

Saint Frank Coffee4.5(1.4k)·Closed · Opens 07:00Customers work on laptops at small wooden tables along the left wall, and a bar-height counter with stools runs along the front window. The shop is open from 7:00 to 18:00.

Outer Richmond

Home Coffee Roasters4.6(566)·Closed · Opens 08:00A wood-paneled bench runs along the long wall, with small tables in front of it for laptops. The shop closes at 16:00.

Sunset/Parkside

Home Coffee Roasters4.6(652)·Closed · Opens 08:00People work on laptops at the long white tables, and a counter along the front window adds more seats under a pitched ceiling with two skylights. The shop opens at 7:30.

Castro/Upper Market

Verve Coffee Roasters4.4(875)·Closed · Opens 07:00People work on laptops at the shared timber tables and chairs along the arched windows, which look onto Market Street. The shop opens at 6:30 on weekdays.

South of Market

Delah Coffee House4.6(1.2k)·Closed · Opens 07:00Round white tables with upholstered chairs fill the open floor of a single room. The shop opens at 6:00 and closes at 23:00 on weekdays.

West of Twin Peaks

Ballast Coffee4.5(346)·Closed · Opens 07:30Customers work on laptops at a high wood ledge with stools and at small round tables along a built-in bench. A walled back patio adds seating, and the shop opens at 7:30.

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