Scores of Bay Area Starbucks closed last year. Local coffee roasters are reclaiming the spaces

San Francisco coffee pioneer Ritual Coffee is opening its first standalone cafe in a decade in a former downtown Starbucks.
Eater

Ritual Coffee Focuses on Growth While Grappling With Its Complicated Past

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. On October 4, San ...
Napa Valley Register

Ritual makes a religion of drinking coffee

Ritual Coffee Roasters at Napa’s Oxbow Public Market offers a “coffee menu” resembling a wine list: “Sweet and balanced, with flavors of toffee, burnt sugar, and dried apricot, and a long finish of ...
The Village Voice

Ritual Coffee Invades NYC — Via Murray’s Cheese

Eschewing the brown paper bag of Blue Bottle and Stumptown, Ritual beans come in thick foil. I’m sitting here drinking a cup of coffee made from Ritual Coffee Roasters beans. Specifically, made from ...
Eater

A Haight Street Anchor Cafe Is Closing After Nine Years

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. The post goes on to say the ...
SF Weekly

Ritual Takes Sixth Place in National Barista Contest

There may be no ticker-tape parade through the FiDi, but Ritual Coffee Roasters just made San Francisco proud at the United States Barista Championship in Houston this weekend. Cutely, the impressive ...