Clayton Coffee & Tea

if you've got a slow saturday morning and nowhere to be until noon, 10th street in modesto has a quieter pace than you'd expect from a central valley city this size. clayton coffee & tea sits at 502 10th st, roasting its own beans and doing the work in-house rather than sourcing finished product from somewhere else. that matters more than it sounds. you're not drinking coffee that's been sitting in a warehouse supply chain for months before it hit the grinder. the reviews back all of this up consistently, which for an independent roaster in a mid-sized california city says something about how they're operating. come on a weekday if you want the place at its least crowded, and order something off the single-origin pour-over list before they run out.