Bean About Town

SPECIALTY

330 Royal Hawaiian Avenue, Honolulu, 96815

Open in Apple Maps →Open in Google Maps →+1 808 673 8300 Website →

Bean About Town is a specialty coffee shop located in Honolulu, HI. Check in here with the Pulled Coffee app to earn real cash rewards. Specialty shops count toward all challenges including Pulled 50, Pulled 100, and Pulled 300.

Bean About Town's Waikiki bar lives inside the DFS Galleria on Royal Hawaiian Avenue, a few blocks off Kalakaua. The setup is small, the line is fast, the program is more ambitious than the address suggests. The team pulls Sightglass out of San Francisco for the espresso side and runs Bean About Town's own roasts for drip, which means visitors who walked in for a hotel-adjacent latte often walk out tasting something they did not expect. It is the place to slip into between Kalakaua and the Royal Hawaiian, and it is busy with hotel guests who learned about it from a concierge and locals who work the Waikiki shift and know the difference. Order the cortado if you want Sightglass espresso pulled the way it was intended. Order a hand-poured Kona if you want to taste Bean About Town's own roasting program.

About Honolulu

Honolulu coffee runs across two registers at the same time. The Kaimuki bench, where neighborhood regulars settle in for a Saudi cardamom pour at Mirage Art and Coffee on 10th Avenue, a chasen-whisked Uji matcha at Daily Whisk inside Ten Tomorrow, or a Kona pour-over at Bean About Town on Waialae. And the downtown corridor through Fort Street Mall and Waimanu, where Drip Studio HNL anchors the contemporary specialty register and Cafe VNTG runs a Brazilian-leaning bar inside a vintage furniture warehouse in Kakaako.

Coffee here grows on the islands. Kona, Kau, and Maui lots show up alongside Ethiopian and Yemeni preparations. Most cafes pour something local. Bean About Town runs a 100% Kona program with the SL34 and Red Bourbon lots when they are in season. Talk Kaimuki, which Liz Schwartz opened as Coffee Talk in 1995 at the Waialae and 12th Avenue intersection, still runs a Sumatran-forward house program and the haupia latte regulars built years ago.

The neighborhood map is the city. Kaimuki holds the slow Saturday-morning bench. Kakaako runs the contemporary cafes around the SALT block. Downtown and Chinatown stretch from Fort Street Mall to Waimanu Street. Waikiki holds the visitor-volume rooms including the Junbi matcha bar at Royal Hawaiian Center and the Dean and Deluca outpost on Kalakaua. The result is a small city that drinks more carefully than its population would suggest, and a circuit that crosses three or four neighborhoods inside a half-day walk.