Verve Coffee Roasters

The West Third Street cafe opened quietly in October 2015, between the Beverly Center and the Grove, and it is where Verve built its first Farmlevel Bar. That is a counter set apart from the register with a barista of its own, where you can work through sourcing and processing questions and buy beans by the ounce from the display jars. It takes its name from the Farmlevel Initiative that funds Verve's direct trade work, and it started here before anywhere else. Commune Design gave the room high ceilings, I-beam posts and exposed rafter joists, skylights over a horseshoe bar, leather table tops and plywood left to age. There is a patio, generous seating and parking, which on this stretch is the detail we would tell a friend first. One drink belongs to this address alone: the Pineapple Passion Guava Matcha, bright passion fruit and guava over silky cold foam, a vegan take on Verve's matcha. The rest of the menu is here too, including Usucha and the Matcha 1 and 1. Open from 7am every day.