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Monkey Bite Espresso
Bird Rock uses this blend in every espresso drink.
Matcha Latte
Spirit Tea's Kodemari matcha with oat milk and house-made vanilla.
Curator’s note
Chuck Patton launched the company in 2002 and opened this cafe in 2006 as its first, and the Monkey Bite blend takes its name from a monkey that attacked him in Kenya. Jeff Taylor bought the company from his friend in 2017, and his wife Maritza, one of Colombia's first four certified Q graders, runs quality control under the title Queen of the Bean.
The Coffee
The Bird is the single-origin espresso, the Left Coast latte runs on a salted caramel made in house, and the matcha latte pairs Spirit Tea's Kodemari with oat milk and house vanilla. The shelf carries Juan Peña's Typica from Hacienda La Papaya in Ecuador, its cherries fermented five days in 20-year-old Ecuadorian rum barrels.
- Bird Rock Blend
- Process
- Washed
black pepper · red apple · fudge
- Monkey Bite
African and South American coffees
brown sugar · dried apricot · butterscotch
- Miraflores | Pink Bourbon
Colombia
- Varietals
- Pink Bourbon
- Process
- Honey
- Producer
- Miraflores Farm
rainier cherry · rose water · raspberry · vanilla frosting
- La Avila SL28
El Salvador, Near Santiago de Maria, Cerro El Tigre
- Varietals
- SL28
- Process
- Fully Washed
- Producer
- Finca Las Mercedes
red grape · nougat · toffee
- Tiger
Sumatra, Aceh, northern Sumatra
- Varietals
- Ateng, Bor Bor, Catimor, Timor
- Process
- Wet Hulled
sugar cane · plum · pink peppercorn
- Ayla
Ethiopia, Sidamo
- Varietals
- Heirloom
- Process
- Washed
- Producer
- Alya Washing Station
honeysuckle · dried apricot · limeade
- Tolima | Organic
Colombia, Tolima
- Varietals
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Process
- Washed
- Producer
- Cooperativa Multiactiva de Asociaciones Agropecuarias del Tolima (Multicoop)
brown sugar · tangerine · yellow apple
- Gesha Santa Ana
Guatemala, Santa Rosa
- Varietals
- Gesha
- Process
- Anaerobic: Natural
- Producer
- Finca Santa Ana
passion fruit sorbet · white chocolate · lemon curd
The Vibe
Bird Rock's La Jolla Boulevard room is a low storefront with BIRD ROCK COFFEE ROASTERS and WHOLESALE RETAIL lettered across a red fascia, and its front opens to the sidewalk over a wood ledge on a stone base, where people sit with their cups under a street tree. Inside, an orange plaster wall holds a beach scene by Rosanna Marmont that Bird Rock neighbors colored in with pencils at the Birdstock festival.
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