Mr Espresso

Nice art work on their bags of coffee. Pretty pictures on web page. The web page is very explanatory of their products for sale. Been around for a long time.

Absolutely fantastic coffee- we love whole espresso beans and are able to make great coffee at home.

Mr. Espresso has serviced my Rocket R58 machine a few times now over the last four years. I would not trust anyone else in the Bay Area with my machine! Feels like new every time! If your espresso machine is having issues or just needs tune-up, this is where you need to come. I drive one hour away for the best.

We were visiting we Palm Desert, when I entered a delightful and only recently (we were told-opened only one month) opened coffee shop. D' Coffee and Bouteaque, in the Bristol Farms grocery store shopping center. After visiting daily by myself for a week, my husband joined me. There was not a table to be seated at, when a gentlemen, told us he would leave so we could have his table.

We asked him to stay and we would join him. He told us how much he liked the place, the owners and the food. He asked us if we had tried the coffee. I am off coffee for around 4 months (medical reasons) so told him I don't drink coffee, so he told me the tea was also great, which I already knew by experience. He told us, he appreciate coffee and told us a little about the coffee process.

What a delightful man, we enjoyed his company. But little did we know, until he left that he was Mr. Expresso himself- Joel. Thank you Joel, for sharing your table and for the conversation. After you left, the owner told us who you were and gave us a couple mugs of coffee. My husband a man who drink his cream with coffee, drank his coffee black and said it was the best he had ever tasted.

He never drink coffee black. I just had to taste my mug of coffee, and my husband wasn't kidding. Now, I will be on the hunt for Mr. Expresso coffee, in my local area, when I can start drinking it again. Smooth and silky, absolutely wonderful coffee.

Cantaloupe leaves my hair dry and limp but they say it's can be healthy with shine. Katty

Fantastic customer support. Had a problem with my Rocket Expresso machine and they took care of it the best possible way. Very professional, fast and caring for the customer. Difficult to find such a great customer support like this one. Thanks Alex!

Best coffee I've ever tasted stateside. I love their coffee, I buy in 5 lb bags by the truckload to my home. This is my joy, and my joy is complete. Thank you Mr Espresso.

Jeanette was an absolute delight. Great spot to pick up some delicious coffee beans. Plenty of street parking. My suggestions is order ahead so beans are ready when you arrive.

Great coffee and espresso makers! The staff we have encountered have all been excellent. We regularly buy their coffee by mail and the service is very good.

I had recently my espresso machine serviced there. A part was needed and Mr Espresso ordered it from Italy's manufacturer Rocket. Rocket has not been diligent to send the part via expedited means. Alex from Mr Espresso knowing that the ordered part will not arrive before the holidays managed to find it through other distributors and installed it in a much more shorter time than ETA.

His initiative has ideally compensated the bad customer experience I was experiencing from the Italian manufacturer. Bought at the same time their coffee Elysian blend that I like too.

Such good coffee we had to ask our waiter what brand coffee they brewed at The Vault San Francisco up all night off only 1 cup but worth every yummy sip & trying to enjoy this morning's whatever crap brand I bought at the grocery store!

I recently ordered the Organic Neopolitan and Golden Gate Espressos for the first time and I have to say that I am very impressed. Both were excellent and met their mentioned flavor profiles perfectly. I ordered whole beans and you can tell they were freshly roasted. both had a nice thick crema and were very smooth with very low acidity. excellent!

Ivan at Mr. Espresso was recommended to me by Miele. This man is one in a million. I called him, and he spent five minutes on the phone with me, walking me through a series of steps that ultimately corrected the problem with my coffee maker. He is a true expert. Working with Ivan was a breath of fresh air: excellent customer service, knowledgeable, honest, and full of integrity. I will ONLY use Mr. Espresso going forward. Thank you, Mr. Espresso.

Coffee as good as it gets. Buy it at many local coffee shops or factory direct in Oakland Jack London Square Area.

Da kine beans. Found out my fave bakery in Santa Cruz pours this coffee. Chiaroscuro is our choice, strong flavor, but not headachy or cranky buzz after. Great, great customer service.

Before opening a cafe I visited dozens of roasters, and Mr Espresso ended up being the best. They use oak to roast their coffees, and it makes a difference. They also sell and service commercial espresso machines and have customers all over the Bay Area. They've been around a long time.

My favorite coffee in the Bay Area. This is classic Italian roast with its delicious bitter notes, perfect for waking up in the morning, accompanying a pastry, or finishing a great dinner. It's not tthe third wave sour stuff that has become so popular. They have, however, started making a medium roast to cater more to those tastes.

My husband and I first came across Mr. Espresso coffee when we had the best cup of coffee we'd had since being in Europe (he is from Spain, we are coffee snobs!). They told us the bean they used was from Mr. Espresso and we have been buying their beans ever since. We've never had a bad cup of coffee, but we only use stove-top or a nice espresso machine to brew the shots. Our stapes are the Neapolitan Organic or the Organic Decaf. We've been buying their beans for several years now.

I began my sincere coffee experience with Mr. Espresso more than a decade ago. I travel a ton and at every port-of-call I would go to the local roaster and sample their roasts. This would include coffee mecca's such as the Bay Area, Seattle & Portland, but also roasters on the East Coast, Midwest and Canada. There some good roasters out there and there also some bad ones, but I've completed the circle and there's nobody better than Carlo's roasts at Mr. Espresso. He gets not only how to roasts the beans but how to blend them and how many beans to use in the blend. Part science part hard earned craft.

I love coffee and always on the lookout for a great place to get espresso. This place is fantastic and the service is welcoming. You need to call in advance to order, but well worth it.

Mr. Espresso's finely roasted high-quality coffee bean is definitely as good as it gets. For 30 years, as a San Franciscan, I've relied on East Bay friends to buy beans for me. Or, when I drive over the bay, I go to Berkeley Bowl. I used to buy the Gold Medal Italian in the old shiny green-and-red bag. Now I'm drinking the Neopolitan.

I see Mr. Espresso coffee served in San Francisco restaurants, but I still don't know where I can buy the superb beans here. A few years back, the Chronicle did a piece on excellent local coffee roasters, and left out Mr. Espresso. I'm still steaming years later. This company deserves raves.

For a true gourmet coffee roaster with Quility And fair prices you will not find better The Quility and the service have always been top Class One of the things I found and was confirmed by Mr. espresso him self Carlo is the espresso coffee needs to brewed at a higher temperature then usual because of the Oak wood Roasting and the Arabica beans being harder 208 to 212 depending on the brand and model of the machine.

The American drip is best when brewed to Gold Cup Standards of 16 to 1 Ratio and 202 to 203 F The people that do not appreciate the Quility of this Mr. Espresso coffee, have a bad brewer and use ketchup on their pasta

Only beans I would buy for my former cafe in Concord. They were such a hit, my little place nestled in a gym stole customers from Peet's and Starbucks (the only places in our town) for their daily dose. I became hooked myself and try to seek out places who use the beans and equipment. This stuff is the real deal, made as they do in Italy. Don't be fooled by the name and compare it to Mr. Coffee.you'd be doing yourself a huge disservice.

If you're in the cafe business, consider having them come show you how to brew the perfect espresso using their beans. You'll be hooked. Great beans, great service, old school Italy for sure.

Frankly one of the reviews on Mr. Espresso shows how stupidly snarky the coffee trade has become. The comments made by the author showed a lack of understanding of the diverse and robust nature of the coffee trade, and the varied types of coffee drinker out there. I wonder if this author even knows what the most popular coffee in the world is.? The answer: Nescafe.

So that guy can take his high minded sensibilities and shove them. Coffee is diverse and nuanced, it is NOT a one-size-fits-all world. I also wonder if that author knows that here in the Bay Area WATER, and how a restaurant/bar owner decides to filter water is probably the #1 deciding factor on how a coffee turns out. Mr. Espresso Napolitano is my go-to bean for our 2 espresso machines.

It is a nice Oak fired roast, medium caffeine and is well balanced. How well balanced you ask? Well the flavor profile has been almost identical for the entire 20 year span I have been buying it. I have also recently been buying Carlo's Blend, and find that to be a nice change from time to time. I wonder if that oh-so-self-important reviewer knows that Carlo di Ruocco, owner of Mr. Espresso, won the Alfred Peet award last year? he was the first to receive this prize, given to him by his PEERS, rather than outside amateurs. carlo didn't just win for his coffee, but his dedication to a craft, his love of coffee, and the life-long pursuit of perfection in his field. Shame on Chris S. for his poor wording, and his extremely uneducated approach to besmirching the image and reputation of a dedicated artisan.

This is a review of their coffee, not this particular cafe. I have had Mr Espresso brewed and espresso at various venues, including St Mary's Garage in SF, Clif Winery in Napa, and others. I home roast, and drink as much specialty coffee as I can. So here is my opinion: Mr. Espresso makes a balanced roast. I find many Third Wave coffees to be sour (here's looking at you, Verve) and unbalanced.

I have had heralded coffees such as Blue Bottle, Intelligentsia, Heart, etc. pour-overs and espressos that were borderline undrinkable for my taste. Not all, but many - I'd say coffees from many hardcore Third Wave shops are overdone as often as they are excellent. This is not to say that all Third Wave coffee is bad; simply that it is a modern style that in my opinion is sometimes/often overdone.

In the name of acidity, balance is often forsaken. And so, I can say I have yet to experience an undrinkable coffee from Mr Espresso, though his roasts typically display solid varietal/origin flavor and a balanced sweetness that is clearly many steps above a commercial coffee house such as Sbux or Peet's. These are often light/medium-roast coffees, though I have had excellent lighter-roast single-origin expressions of Colombia, Guat, and dry-process Ethiopia at their shops as well.

If you have had a bad cup of Mr Espresso, it was probably either a fluke or a poorly prepared/pulled. Or you're a someone (more than likely a pretentious hipster) who believes any roast flavor in your coffee whatsoever is to be called "scorched". This is quite good, balanced coffee that is consistently pleasant to drink.

At this past weekend's Eat Drink SF events, I came across Mr. Espresso beverages for the first time. I happened to have been fortunate to attend Friday's (Day 1) industry day. While in the lobby, I got to chat with Eric, the Quality Control manager at Mr. Espresso. Not only is Eric skilled at making coffee beverages, I could see his passion for making a quality product and listened to him speak about the business itself.

The owner seems super cool. You just have to look at the postcards that were on display (on one of them the owner on a Vespa in a 1950's photo in Naples). On the last day of the EDSF event (this past Sunday), I ran across Eric again at the espresso bar. He was making coffee drinks and ensuring that each cup was made to order. I bellied up to the bar and asked for an espresso. Gotta say that Eric made the B-E-S-T espresso cup I've ever had. It also had a beautiful schiuma (foam) atop the cup. You can't ask for more.well you could.