Best Coffee Shops in San Francisco

San Francisco’s Mission District produced two of America’s most influential roasters within three years, and the city still argues about wifi.

Mission District (Valencia Street)

Ritual Coffee Roasters was founded here in 2005; Four Barrel opened on Valencia Street in 2008.

Mission District (Four Barrel)

Four Barrel, founded by a former Ritual co-founder, opened in 2008 and famously offers no free wifi or power sockets.

Outer Sunset

Andytown Coffee Roasters became a destination in a neighbourhood once considered a specialty-coffee desert.

Inner Richmond

The Richfield is cited as a high-quality specialty spot in the less-saturated Inner Richmond.

SoMa to North Beach

This downtown stretch is one of the city’s most heavily stocked corridors for specialty coffee.

Oakland (Temescal)

Blue Bottle, now a Bay Area institution, began in 2002 in a 186-square-foot potting shed in Oakland.