Slow mornings, salt air, single‑origin.
A small, sun-warmed café tucked between the dunes and the highway — pulling shots, pouring oat-milk lattes, and feeding the seagulls since the tide first came in.
Inside · 06:42
About the cafe
Built on driftwood,
Built on driftwood,
run on good light
and better beans.
We’re a six-stool café two blocks from the breakwater — roasting in small batches, brewing one cup at a time, and staying open just long enough to catch the late-afternoon glow.
Our beans come from three farms we’ve visited (and one we haven’t — yet). Our milk is local. Our pastries arrive still warm at sunrise from a baker who lives upstairs. The playlist is mostly soft piano and crashing waves, occasionally interrupted by gulls.
07
Years on the coast
3
Single-origin beans
~42k
Cups poured / yr
The menu — autumn list
Four drinks worth
Four drinks worth
rolling out of bed for.
A short, curated list — we’d rather make four things brilliantly than forty things adequately. Rotated seasonally, decaf always available, oat milk on the house.
The Journal
Notes from the
Notes from the
counter.
Long-form pieces, brew-method scribbles, occasional letters about what's on the bench. New entries about twice a week.
Visit / Contact
Find the door,
Find the door,
push it open.
We’re ten minutes south of the highway turn-off, at the bottom of the hill where the gravel meets the boardwalk. Free parking, well-behaved dogs welcome on the patio.
142 Shoreline Drive
Half Moon Cove, CA 94019
Half Moon Cove, CA 94019