W. C. Morse

Our Temescal neighborhood cafe is just 2.5 miles from our Oakland headquarters—a proximity that enables quite a bit of dreaming and experimentation. In addition to our normal menu of drip coffee, iced coffee, and espresso, our baristas craft a small clutch of drinks and treats befitting the tinkering a workshop implies. 

We stumbled upon the historic W. C. Morse building when longtime Blue Bottle illustrator Michelle Ott was biking past. Awed by its architecture, she pulled over and snapped a photo on her phone. This photo begat a text, which begat several equally awed visits, which then begat a giddy lease signing. Our functional interior design nods to the building’s origins as the East Bay’s first-ever truck showroom.