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Ikigai Matcha
Thursday6:30 AM – 4 PM
Curator’s note
Two people crossed paths for the first time at a local coffee shop on February 17, 2005, and two decades later they opened this counter. A catering arm came next, then a second shop on the Orange Coast College campus in Costa Mesa.
The Coffee
Walking on a Dream pours as the batch brew and White Pony, a natural Ethiopia Guji, as the cold brew, each roasted for its method. The Trad-Italiano flight lines up a cortado, a gibraltar, a macchiato, a piccolo and a con panna.
- Joyride
Brazil and Ethiopia
- Roast
- Medium-light
Hard Chocolate · Dried Fruit · Mixed Nuts
- Walking on a dream
Colombia and El Salvador
- Roast
- Medium-light
Walnuts · Red Fruit
- B-Side
Colombia, La Unión, Nariño
- Process
- Fermented in tanks 12-24 hours, then fully washed and sun-dried; decaffeinated with the Ethyl Acetate sugar-cane process at Descafecol.
- Producer
- Local small farm holders
Semi-sweet Chocolate · Roasted Nuts
The Vibe
Inside Lot 579, the food hall at Pacific City, this is a retro-cool midcentury build: communal tables around an open plan, a high counter with vinyl listening stations, a record rack and loaner headphones, a lending library, and a back door onto the ocean. The tabletops are commissioned too, hand-illustrated with robots, disco balls and surfboards, which is more design than a food-hall counter has any obligation to attempt.
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