Bump Coffee
Curator’s note
Bump states its ambition without blinking: to be the most trusted neighborhood coffee brand on the West Coast. Whoever wrote that also put CBD tincture in a coffee cocktail and called it the CBDream, which is the more useful introduction of the two.
Coffee brewed by immersion, hand-poured to order from Bump's organic, shade-grown lots roasted in Carlsbad.
Empanadas with a flaky, handmade dough and savory fillings, sold individually or by the box.
The coffee
Bump roasts its own in small batches, and the bar runs batch brew beside a made-to-order single-origin pour-over at $4.50 that takes about four minutes to build, the Mexico lot poured with citrus, chocolate and nut. Sourcing is direct, Nayarit among the origins, though nothing on the label goes deeper than the country.
- Todos Santos
- Medium
- Natural + Washed
- El Cuarenteño
vanilla · honey · banana
- Natural Nayarit
- Medium
- Natural
- El Cuarenteño
blackberry · lemon · honey
- Basilio Reserva
- Medium
- Washed
- El Cuarenteño
chocolate · orange · cream
- Après Decaf
- Medium
- Water Process (Washed)
apricot · vanilla · cocoa
- Roaster's Choice
- Bali Blue Moon
- Medium-dark
- Hand-Picked, Wet-Hulled, Two-Step Sun Dried
grapefruit · raspberry · butterscotch
- Cold Brew Blend
- Medium-dark
- Natural & Washed
black raspberry · chocolate · citrus
The room
Small and new, the room runs on a surf-and-simplicity idea: a menu board hand-lettered in black on white, painted surfboard fins framed on the wall, and merch that mostly just says Bump. It sits in plain sight of the road, sharing a patio with Haggo's Tacos next door.
The vibe
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People
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