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Rose City Coffee Co.

3370 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202, USA

SPECIALTY

Rose City Coffee Co. is a specialty coffee shop located in Portland. 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.

Rose City Coffee sits at 3370 SE Milwaukie, on the Brooklyn side of Sellwood, open twenty-four hours a day. The shop opened in 2013 inside the legacy of Shondenken Coffee Roasters, Portland's oldest micro-roaster, and inherited the roasting program along with the room. Rose City is Asian-, woman-, veteran-, and disability-owned, and that orientation runs through the cafe, from gender-neutral restrooms to assistive hearing services to the rotating regulars who treat the place like a living room at three in the morning. The menu runs specialty drinks, breakfast, lunch, and a tea program that holds its own. Order a drip and a breakfast plate if you came in at a normal hour. Order a late-night latte if you came in because Rose City is the only place open and ended up staying for the room.

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.