Cafe Rosetta

912 North Fremont Street

SPECIALTY

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Cafe Rosetta sits on N Fremont in the Boise neighborhood, an Italian-leaning espresso bar named after the Juliet rose. The bar pulls Heart Roasters out of Portland, runs classic espresso drinks alongside signature focaccia sandwiches, and bakes the focaccia and pastries on site. Mornings move quickly here. Locals walking up from Williams stop in for cortados, parents grab a panini before school pickup, and a small crew of regulars treats the front counter like a kitchen they happen to share. The room reads more Italian neighborhood cafe than third wave laboratory, which is the point. Order a Heart espresso and a focaccia if you want the version of Rosetta the regulars order. Order a panini and a latte at noon if you want lunch in Boise without thinking about it.

About Portland

Portland built its specialty register on roasters who never moved off the Eastside. Stumptown Coffee Roasters opened on SE Division in 1999 and set the city template for the decade that followed. Coava Coffee Roasters opened in 2008 in a Matt Higgins garage, then moved into the working roastery and Public Brew Bar at 1015 SE Main, a block off the Hawthorne Bridge. Roseline opened in 2011 on SE 11th across from Kachka, with a second cafe on NE Alberta in Concordia. Water Avenue Coffee runs a downtown shop at 1300 SW 5th and the original flagship across the river on SE Water Avenue with a vintage French Samiac drum roaster.

The neighborhood map covers most of the city. Central Eastside and Buckman hold the working roasteries. Hawthorne, Division, and Sellwood-Brooklyn run the slower neighborhood bars. Alberta and Concordia in Northeast carry the second-wave Eastside cafes. The Pearl District covers the Italian and downtown register through Caffe Umbria on NW 12th, which opened in December 2007. Foster-Powell holds Space Monkey Coffee on the corner of SE 72nd and Foster, anchoring that quadrant since 2004.

Portland is also the city where the multi-roaster bean bar started. Barista on NW 13th opened in 2009 in a Pearl District storefront and ran multiple top roasters on the same bar instead of one house roast. The model spread across the city. The result is a market where most serious cafes pour two or three rotating roasters and the bar conversation rotates with them.