Hidden House Coffee

San Juan Capistrano is the older room and the better story, but this brick warehouse is where the coffee actually gets made, on a machine more than three times the size of the 5-kilo Primo Briggs started on. He still goes to the farms himself (Guatemala, El Salvador, Ethiopia) and vouches for the labor conditions he finds there.

All of it comes off the 18-kilo US Roaster Corp machine installed in 2017, roasting light to medium across a single-origin-leaning list: an Ethiopia Sidama, a Guatemala Huehuetenango, a Mexico decaf, and Pool Party, a washed-Ethiopia/natural-Colombia blend. Sourcing is direct trade with the founder walking the farms himself, but no bag prints a roast date.

The room is a restored 1914 brick warehouse with the original brick left up and the wood ceilings left high, the shop saying plainly that it likes old buildings. Outside, red brick under clay tile with a small blind-embossed logo plate makes the same point quietly, and everything the brand sells comes off the 18-kilo US Roaster Corp machine a few steps from the bar.