Built in 1923, Blue Bottle’s Jack London Square location in Oakland’s industrious fruit and vegetable district is a scrupulously restored brick warehouse we converted into our roastery and production facility.

Just across the train tracks from the Port of Oakland, we inherited the warehouse’s old Probat roaster, which we still use. In our early days at Webster, our neighbor had a van with a car alarm that went off every time the train roared by. For five years.

Pleasantly practical, our Webster cafe now houses a pastry kitchen, training lab, offices, cupping room, and a modest and hardworking coffee bar. We pull a rotating selection of single origin espresso on a La Marzocco Linea 2 Group EE, and we brew single origin and blend coffees by hand.

Our guests like to take their coffee and pastries over to the water, just a few blocks away. We’re also pretty sure we have one of the best cute-dog-to-square-footage ratios in all of Oakland. But we may be biased.

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