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The Bird's Nest Coffee

66-532 Kamehameha Highway, Haleiwa, 96712

SPECIALTY

The Bird's Nest Coffee is a specialty coffee shop located in Haleiwa, 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.

The Bird's Nest sits a few minutes north of Haleiwa proper on Kamehameha Highway, the kind of stop that started as a 1966 Ford Econoline selling coffee and plants and grew into a roost. The bar pulls Sweetbloom out of Denver as its anchor, with rotating guest roasters from Dak, Black & White, Hydrangea, and Prodigal. Sourdough kolaches and sea-salt chocolate chip cookies come out of the oven in the morning. Cold brew goes by Birdy Brew. The space hosts pop-ups, community nights, and the occasional live set, run by founders Caleb Backus and Madelyn Ballew with a team that takes latte art seriously without making a thing of it. Order the Birdy Brew cold brew if you want what regulars order without thinking. Order a pour-over from whichever guest roaster is on if you came because someone told you Bird's Nest is the move.

About Haleiwa

Haleiwa is the North Shore's coffee town. The whole specialty network sits along Kamehameha Highway, the surf-route artery that runs from Honolulu out to the Pipeline beaches. Cafe Haleiwa has held the same corner of Haleiwa town since 1982, run by Duncan Campbell, the same Duncan who shaped the original Bonzer surfboard with his brother Malcolm in the early 1970s. Surf photographs line the walls. The Bonzer Front workshop sits adjacent. The breakfast menu reads like a wave report.

The contemporary bench runs through the same highway. Saylor's lives inside the old Bishop Bank building on Kamehameha Highway, with original window panes and the bank vault still in place, pouring locally roasted beans, ceremonial matcha, real chai, and small-batch syrups made nearby. Farm to Barn at the lone Haleiwa stoplight runs an open-air operation across from North Shore Marketplace, with picnic tables, weekend live music, sunrise yoga on the grass, and a kitchen running cold-pressed juices and farm-pasture breakfasts. The Bird's Nest a few minutes north started as a 1966 Ford Econoline selling coffee and plants and grew into a full cafe, pulling Sweetbloom out of Denver as the anchor with rotating guest roasters from Dak, Black and White, Hydrangea, and Prodigal.

The Sunrise Shack on Kamehameha Highway runs the surf-side stop where Pipeline traffic stalls in winter, started by the Termini brothers around butter coffee and acai bowls before opening other locations across Oahu. The Pulled directory tracks 9 specialty rooms in Haleiwa. The cluster is small, tied tightly to the surf calendar, and tied tightly to the highway.