Blue Bottle Coffee at the Ferry Building Marketplace is a modern espresso bar in the north nave. Coffee drinks include a menu of espresso drinks, individually prepared drip coffee, and New Orleans iced coffee. Owner James Freeman’s wife, Caitlin, creates daily desserts using mostly organic ingredients, and Blue Bottle Kitchen offers other coffee-compatible edibles such as granola and Belgian waffles. The shop also carries Blue Bottle Coffee’s line of artisan micro roasted coffee beans.

At Blue Bottle Coffee, artisan micro roasting simply means that Blue Bottle takes a hands-on approach to every step possible to discover and preserve the true nature of excellent coffee. Blue Bottle Coffee takes freshness and small-batch roasting to an extreme not considered practical anywhere else in the coffee business. Blue Bottle uses the best certified organic coffees, occasionally using beautiful coffees that are farmed traditionally without pesticides. Blue Bottle never pre-blends coffees thus assuring the ideal roast profile for each bean used in a blend. All varietals are roasted individually, and then mixed into Blue Bottle Coffee blends.