Petrol Club

A 1991 BMW M5 billed as the every day super sedan holds the spot a coffee bar usually gives its biggest table, and nothing sits behind ropes. The display changes with the seasons, and anyone with the right car can ask for the next slot.

Nothing is roasted here. The espresso comes from Golden Lantern Coffee Roasters in Laguna Hills, and three of its coffees sit on the retail shelf at $22 a tin: Late Apex, a medium espresso roast on hazelnut, chocolate and citrus; 87 Decaf, medium-dark on cherry and brown sugar; Dark Horse, a dark roast that finishes on cocoa. Each tin gives a roast level and a few tasting notes, and names no origin.

Espresso and milk run this bar, with drip from two thermal urns and cold brew alongside, and nothing on the board is brewed by hand. The specialty list is built on house syrups and cream tops, with Camber running cinnamon brown sugar through a flat white and Green Flag stacking scratch mint syrup and a vanilla cream top over iced matcha.

A massive elliptical bar, fluted wood curved to borrow the radius off a Porsche body, anchors a room of roll-up garage doors, timber joists, polished concrete, dark green tile and a back wall painted a licensed Porsche color. Seating is stools at the bar, a handful of cafe tables in the side room and umbrella tables on the patio through the open doors, because the middle of the floor belongs to a car on a built wood platform, with four race wheels mounted on the wall behind it.

• Converted service station
• Roll-up garage doors
• Elliptical fluted-wood bar
• Car display floor
• Sun patio