Cellar Door Coffee Roasters

We (Andrea and Jeremy) met as apprentices at the sustainable farming and gardening program at University of California Santa Cruz. When guests to our home see the giant vent stack going up the side of our house, they often inquire how we got into coffee roasting. Before we went completely insane and decided we had to get an industrial roaster, we started as amateurs, roasting like many a coffee geek that has come before: in a popcorn popper. Once we realized we needed more control over the heat curve, we switched to a semi-pro model that added a drum to our gas grill. I swear. We had a lot of fun, but eventually we wanted to be able to see the coffee as it roasted, smell it right up close, taste it at every step of the way and so it had to be -- we needed a professional machine. It was put up or shut down. Well we did buy that first 5 lb roaster and did bring our coffee to the farmers' market that year. That was two plus years ago and our 20 lb roaster is just about online. It's been quite a trip...and we're just getting started.

We're located at 2001 SE 11th Ave, between Hawthorne and Division. Store hours for now are Monday-Friday 6:30am-4pm, and Saturday and Sunday 8am-3pm. Stop by and try any of our coffees brewed in French press or have Jeremy pull you some shots of the single origin or espresso blend du jour. We're also serving housemade quiche, scones, and other pastries, including Dovetail Bakery's delicious vegan confections, and Voodoo donuts. You can also find our coffees at groceries around town like Limbo, Food Fight!, Market of Choice, and Whole Foods Laurelhurst, Fremont, and Pearl stores. Or quaff a cup with your fried egg sandwich at Gravy on N. Mississippi. Then head over to Back to Eden vegan bakery and emporium on Alberta for a pourover and dessert. If you can't make it in person, you can have our coffee shipped to your front step. Just drop us a line.