A specialty café and small-batch roastery on Portland’s east side. Whatever’s good today is on the board — pulled, poured, and bagged a few feet from where it roasts.
Build-your-order is a preview of our online order-ahead — coming soon. Alt milk is always free. Decaf available on any espresso drink.
Fresh-roasted, fairly sourced, and made by people who want to be here — the small things that add up to a good cup.
Every bean is roasted in small batches a few feet from the bar — never older than it should be.
We buy from importers and farms we can call by name and pay transparent, above-market prices.
Every bag is stamped with the day it was roasted. Coffee is fresh food; we treat it that way.
Oat, almond, soy — always free. Good coffee shouldn’t come with a surcharge for how you take it.
We pay a living wage, share tips fairly, and train baristas who actually want to be here.
Free wifi, real chairs, outlets you can find, and a patio your dog is welcome on. Stay a while.
A taste of the menu — espresso and brewed. The full list, plus tea, toast, and pastry, is on the menu page.
Allergen & dietary note. Allergen note: our drinks and food are prepared in a shared space that handles milk, tree nuts, peanuts, eggs, soy, and gluten (wheat). We can’t guarantee any item is free of trace allergens. Alt milks (oat, almond, soy) are available on every drink at no charge — just ask. Tell your barista about any allergy and we’ll do our best.
Every bag travels the same road — bought with care, roasted by hand, rested, and brewed at its peak.
We buy from importers and a handful of farms we can call by name — paying transparent, above-market prices and tasting every lot before it ships.
Green coffee arrives, rests, and gets cupped blind. We score it, write tasting notes, and decide which lots earn a spot on the board.
Small batches on our Loring Smart Roast, profiled by hand. Each origin gets a curve built around its sugars — light enough to taste the farm, developed enough to drink black.
Fresh-roasted coffee needs to degas. We rest beans before they hit the bar or the bag, so what you brew is at its peak, not its loudest.
Pulled to order at the bar, or bagged within days of roast and shipped to your door. Roast date on every bag — never a “best by.”
Seasonal single origins and house blends, bagged within days of roast — with the roast date on every one.
PopularOur house espresso — chocolatey, round, and forgiving as milk or straight.
LimitedElectric and juicy — the Kenyan that converts people to filter coffee.
PopularA natural Ethiopian that tastes like a basket of blueberries.
The ratios and steps we use to get the most out of every bean. Dial these in and we’ll have done our job.
A clean, bright cup. Great for our washed Kenyans and Ethiopians.
Forgiving and fast. The travel brewer we keep in our bags.
Full-bodied and rich. Our Lowlight blend loves this.
Espresso-adjacent and cozy. Try it with a darker single origin.
Pick a plan and a cadence; we roast, bag, and ship within days. Skip, swap, or pause any time.
One bag, your rhythm
Two bags, our most popular
A tour of the roastery
Reels, posts, and reviews — clipped straight off the internet. People film the latte art so we don’t have to.
0:180:110:240:150:090:13the honey oat cortado at @fogliftercoffee has fully recalibrated my standards. roasted in the back, pulled at the bar, remembered my order. portland is spoiled.
took the Home Brewing 101 class at Foglifter on a whim and now I own three drippers and have OPINIONS about water temperature. send help (more beans).
Kirinyaga AA on the V60 this morning. blackcurrant, grapefruit, cane sugar — exactly like the card said. this is the cup that converts people to filter coffee.
The Kirinyaga on filter ruined every other coffee shop for me. They roast it in the back, brew it by hand, and remember that I take it black. This is the platonic ideal of a neighborhood café.
The Duo subscription shows up like clockwork, always within days of roast, always with a card explaining what I’m drinking. I’ve learned more about coffee from these little boxes than from years of cafés.
We planned a whole morning around this place and it overdelivered. Patio for the dog, a flat white that was genuinely perfect, and a barista who walked us through three single origins without a hint of snobbery.
Social posts, handles, and engagement counts are illustrative mock content for this template. Find the real café on Instagram.
Sourcing. Sourcing note: we buy green coffee through direct-trade and specialty importer relationships, paying transparent prices above Fair Trade and commodity benchmarks. Where a coffee is certified organic or Fair Trade, it’s labeled on the bag. Roast dates are printed, never “best by.”
We’re on SE Belmont, roasting in the back and open seven days. Come in for a cortado and a window seat — or start a subscription and we’ll ship fresh beans to your door.