Rose Park Roasters

Andrew Phillips drove to and from Orange County to roast Rose Park's coffee for years, until 2018, when the company at last secured a space of its own and installed the roaster it had bought in its early days. This Pine Avenue room, the second cafe, followed in 2019 and became the company's kitchen laboratory: a menu built over a year with chef Brooke Webber, then Melissa Ortiz's 2021 dinner menu of produce, fish and seafood with no land proteins, which ran until late 2022.

Nathan Tourtellotte and Andrew Phillips put this room on the ground floor of the Long Beach Professional Building, a 1929 Art Deco tower on the National Register, and Ruthi Daugherty, formerly of Camp Design, fitted it out. Bare concrete columns stand on a polished concrete floor edged in patterned tile under white pendant lamps, a bicycle hangs high on the wall under a line of lettering that runs along the top of it, and the bar front is wood slat under white subway tile with the retail bags shelved beside it.