Rhetoric Coffee

san francisco has a specialty coffee culture that rewards attention, where the difference between a good cup and a great one comes down to someone actually caring about process. rhetoric coffee sits in berkeley's mcgee avenue stretch, which puts it slightly outside the city's center of gravity but not outside its orbit. the people who find it tend to keep finding it, which says something about what's on offer. pour-over here gets the kind of unhurried treatment that makes sense of why the method exists in the first place, and the espresso program runs alongside it without feeling like an afterthought. if you're making the trip, go when you have time to sit with whatever you order rather than rushing it out the door. a well-pulled shot on mcgee avenue is reason enough.