Tepito Coffee & Tea House

you're on east colorado boulevard in pasadena, which means you're already somewhere worth paying attention to. tepito coffee & tea house sits at 695, and the fact that it's held a strong local reputation here says something about how pasadena drinks coffee. this part of colorado runs through old town's eastern edge, close enough to the foot traffic but not swallowed by it, and the people who end up at tepito tend to know what they're looking for. the tea house element is real, not decorative, so if you're not in an espresso headspace you're still covered. locally regarded, independently run, no corporate scaffolding holding it up. come by on a weekday morning when east colorado is still waking up and order something from the tea side.