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, drip coffee, and their New Orleans iced coffee. Owner James Freeman’s wife, Caitlin, creates daily desserts, and Blue Bottle chef Bryan Waites offers other coffee-compatible edibles such as granola and Belgian waffles. The shop also carries the 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 -- no matter how inconvenient or time-consuming. Blue Bottle Coffee take freshness and small-batch roasting to an extreme not considered practical anywhere else in the coffee business. Blue Bottle use only the best certified organic coffees, occasionally using beautiful coffees that are farmed traditionally without pesticides. Blue Bottle never pre-blends their coffees thus assuring the ideal roast profile for each bean used in a blend. All varietals are roasted individually, then mixed into Blue Bottle Coffee blends.

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