Wild Rose Coffee

SPECIALTY

1909 Southwest 6th Avenue

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Wild Rose Coffee 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.

Wild Rose Coffee sits at 1909 Southwest 6th Avenue, three blocks from Portland State on the southern edge of downtown. The cafe started as a food cart at local farmers markets and grew into two brick-and-mortar locations, of which the 6th Avenue shop is the second. The room runs a 1970s aesthetic, woody and warm, designed for sitting an hour. Pastries are baked in house. Bagel sandwiches anchor the morning. The Portland Fog is the signature, a twist on a London Fog with local touches that change with the season. The cinnamon twist is the pastry case standard. On weekday mornings the room fills with PSU students walking up the street and downtown regulars who treat Wild Rose as their morning stop. Order the Portland Fog if you came for the drink Wild Rose built around the city it lives in. Order a cinnamon twist with a latte if you want the breakfast that built the food cart.

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.