AOSA Coffee

A print and display company built this room for itself in 2014, with its own designers on it: curved bent-plywood tub chairs, teal-painted steel stretchers and a large abstract mural fabricated as one material system. Twelve years on it is still one room, Keyana Hill's, and the coffee is the unresolved half: house-roasted in one place, sourced from local roasters in another, with no roaster named either way.

The lineup runs a $7 pour-over, cold brew steeped more than 21 hours, and an espresso base of single-origin Brazil, but the sourcing contradicts itself (house-roasted by one of the shop's own claims, outside local roasters by another), and no roaster is named anywhere. It opened in 2014 pouring Stumptown exclusively.

The furniture here was fabricated rather than bought: curved bent-plywood tub chairs, plywood X-frame tables on teal-painted steel stretchers, and a plywood banquette wall carrying the same teal inlay, all over polished concrete under a large abstract mural. AoSA's own designers and finish contractors built it in a little over seven months, which is the advantage of opening a cafe out of a print-and-display company.