Blue Bottle Coffee

We opened our Mint Plaza café in January of 2008, in the rear of the elegant 1912 Provident Loan Building in downtown San Francisco. In stark contrast to the old limestone-clad Mint just across the street, we’ve loaded this shop with our prettiest, most delicate gear: Perhaps the most compelling, is the five-light siphon bar, manufactured by the Lucky i. Cremas company of Japan – the first of...

Know Before You Go: Drinks from the siphon bar are not available as to-go drinks.

Parking: The 5th & Mission pay parking garage is one block from the cafe.

The revered microroaster's practitioners brew their sacred beans in a $20,000 siphon bar from Japan with halogen-lighted glass globes that resemble a science experiment. A stop here makes for a perfect reprieve from shopping.

In Short
The first full-scale outpost from the eponymous Bay Area roaster, this Mint Plaza cafe beckons patrons to sit and sip amid loft-like, industrial interiors soberly outfitted in...

café consists of two coffee bars: The first, located in the main arcade, pulls either our Retrofit or Hayes Valley espresso on a three group La Marzocco paddlewheel.The north (or “secret”) coffee bar is tucked away around the corner in a side entrance. There, our baristas pull rotating single-origin espressi. The machine is an elegant gearhead’s delight: a three-group Kees van der Westen...

We opened our Mint Plaza cafA(C) in January of 2008, in the rear of the elegant 1912 Provident Loan Building in downtown San Francisco. In stark contrast to the old limestone-clad Mint just across the street, wea(EUR)(TM)ve loaded this shop with our prettiest, most delicate gear: Perhaps the most compelling, is the five-light siphon bar, manufactured by the Lucky i. Cremas company of Japan...