The Voice of East Bay Living

Coming home to Blue Bottle is always a comforting feeling. While visiting family in Brooklyn , I made my first stop of the day always at Blue Bottle coffee shop located in the Boerum Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn on Dean near Smith. It is the most adorable and smallest of the coffee shops weighing in at a mere 266 ft.² The staff there says "maybe it's our size, we feel especially close to everyone who comes in." It is A great comparison to our Oakland shop on Broadway in the old Morse building – which is the largest of all the coffee shops on the West Coast. I guess size doesn't really matter – it's always about the quality.

Blue Bottle is part of the Third Wave Coffee movement which treats coffee as an artisanal food commodity like wine, with a huge emphasis on planting, harvesting, meticulously roasting, and then brewing in elaborate glass containers imported from Japan. In addition to their selection of coffees, there are other treats such as the Parisian-inspired Soft Brew Au-Lait, the Cascara Fizz, the Shakerato, Belgian waffles and delicious pastries. The new Blue Bottle Coffee shop, located in the historic W.C. Morris Building at 4270 Broadway, is worth a visit. The physical location is uplifting -  a former auto showroom with huge glass windows, twenty feet ceilings and original tile is tastefully decorated, spacious, with sophisticated flower arrangements. This is the largest Blue Bottle Café on the West Coast - another wonderful new Oakland treat- Your coffee experience will definitely be elevated. Visit GlassSabine.com Contact Team Glass Sabine at ssabine @grubbco.com   ...