
Golden State Coffee Roasters
Curator’s note
The roaster and the counter share a building, and the bags name the farm and the farmer: Brazil Terra Nova off Danilo's family operation in Três Pontas, Guatemala Candelaria from Huehuetenango smallholders. Every bag ships with a pour-over grind option, which says plainly what Eric Scott expects people to do with his coffee at home, though the single-origin pages print no roast date and no varietal.
Hot pour-over at 6.50, brewed with beans Golden State roasts itself.
Avocado toast at 7.25, on the board next to the breakfast sandwiches and bagels.
The coffee
Everything is roasted in the building; the seven-coffee retail line runs $18 to $21, from blends like the 1850 Espresso (Ethiopia, Guatemala, Sumatra) to the single-origin Brazil Terra Nova, a natural off Danilo's farm in Três Pontas with a 28-hour static-box fermentation, though neither single origin's page prints a varietal or a roast date. The menu board keeps pour-over as its own hot-column line beside drip, with cold brew and nitro on the cold side.
- Winchester Blend
- Medium
Brown Sugar · Roasted Nuts · Dark Chocolate
- Balboa Blend
- Medium
Vanilla Cream · Fresh Berries · Milk Chocolate
- Capistrano Blend
- Dark
Dark Chocolate · Roasted Nuts · Burnt Caramel
- 1850 Espresso Blend
- Medium
Sweet Tobacco · Fragrant Berries · Chocolate
- Decaf Mexico
- Sugarcane (EA) Process
Molasses · Raisin · Dark Chocolate
- Guatemala Candelaria
- Medium
Red Apple · Lime · Honey
- Brazil Terra Nova
- Medium
- Natural, 28-hour static box fermentation, hot-air dried
- Terra Nova
Stone Fruit · Lime · Cacao
The room
The room is exposed brick under a wood-beam ceiling, with Spanish-style archways, live-edge tabletops and enough floor that customers book it for portrait sittings and the shop still runs holiday pop-ups in the spare space. A classroom sits beside the roasting room, which explains what all that square footage was actually for.
The vibe
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People
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