Saint Frank Coffee

Ritual alum Kevin Bohlin founded this cafe in 2013 on Polk Street; he’s since expanded to include a Mission Street Roastery, a nearby spin-off cafe (St. Clare), and an outpost in the Facebook building. The horseshoe coffee bar at Polk remains the main attraction, where regulars line up for pour over, cold brew, and espresso drinks. For coffee buffs, the draw is Bohlin’s obsessive attention to his beans’ farming, roasting, and sourcing. He can rattle off the names of the producers he works with in Guatemala, Kenya, and Honduras—the Zelaya family in Antigua, for example, or the Paz family in Peña Blanca—and describe the specific agricultural climate that lends each batch of beans its unique flavor.