Local tipThis is where Blue Bottle started in a friend's garage back in 2005, regulars and visiting coffee lovers still line up in the alley for espresso and pour-over.
Local tipAsk about the Comic Rock Star's Toilet Seat Museum behind the lounge couches, over 100 artists have Sharpie'd their own seats since one got vandalized in 2002.
Local tipA volunteer-run community gallery at Oak and Octavia with rotating local-artist shows and a small sculpture garden out back, open weekend afternoons.
Local tipFounded by two brothers who started crate-digging as teenage hip-hop DJs tracing samples back to their jazz and soul roots, the genre-spanning stock is one of the city's best.
