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Specialty coffee · Montrose, CA
Specialty Coffee in Montrose
Stumptown “Hairbender” espresso pulled to ratio, Trapper Creek decaf on the same bar, eleven syrups made in our own kitchen, and four tasting flights at $17. We've been the foothills' specialty-coffee corner at 2420 Honolulu Ave since 2021 — family-owned, and we still remember your order.
The bar
8 ways we pour it
Ratios, volumes and steep times, because if you care enough to ask, you deserve a real answer. Oat and almond milk at no upcharge on anything.
- $4.50
Drip Coffee
Hairbender batch brew from Stumptown — Direct Trade beans, roasted in Portland. Pulled fresh, 12 oz.
- $4.00
Armenian Coffee
Finely ground coffee brewed with cardamom, rich and aromatic. Served in a 2 oz demitasse.
- $6.25
Cold Brew
Hairbender steeped cold for 24 hours — low-acid, served over ice, 16 oz.
- $4.25
Espresso
A double shot of Stumptown Hairbender, pulled to a 1:2 ratio — two ounces in the cup, nothing added.
- $6.25
Cortado
A Hairbender double cut with 4 oz of steamed milk, 6 oz in the cup. No syrup unless you ask for one.
- $5.50
Cappuccino
Hairbender double in equal thirds — espresso, steamed milk, dense foam. Six ounces, small on purpose.
- $6.25
Latte
Hairbender double with steamed milk, 12 oz. Add one of our eleven house-made syrups or keep it plain. Oat and almond, no upcharge.
- $4.75
Americano
Hairbender double poured over hot water, 12 oz. Comes black — tell us if you want a splash of milk.
The signature pour
Four flights, $17 each
Can't pick just one? Don't. Four pours side by side, so a table can taste its way through and argue gently about which is best. It's the most photographed thing on the table after the Toast Towers.
Coffee Flight
$17.00Four 4 oz pours — cold brew, vanilla latte, mocha latte, caramel macchiato — plus four shots of espresso.
Rosewater Flight
$17.00Four ways with rosewater: roseade, a classic rosewater latte, rose iced tea, and a rosewater latte with espresso.
Seasonal Flight
$17.00Whatever we're pouring this season — four 4 oz pours that change through the year. Ask us what's in it today.
Lemonade Flight
$17.00Four 4 oz pours of our house-made lemonade. Flavors change, so ask what we've got going today.
What's in your cup
Where the coffee comes from
Stumptown “Hairbender”
Our espresso base, sourced through Stumptown’s Direct Trade program — balanced and chocolatey, and the shot behind every latte, cappuccino and cortado on the bar.
Trapper Creek decaf
Also Direct Trade. Full flavor, no jitters — the decaf that doesn’t taste like a compromise, pulled on the same bar as everything else.
Eleven house-made syrups
Made here, not pumped from a commercial bottle — vanilla bean, lavender steeped from buds, rosewater, orange blossom and seven more. The reason no two regulars order the same drink.
Beans to take home
Hairbender and Trapper Creek Decaf are $19.95 a bag at the counter — the same beans we pull, at no markup over buying direct from Stumptown.
More on how we source it on our sourcing page.
Come find your cup
We are at 2420 Honolulu Ave in Montrose, CA 91020 — a neighborhood of the city of Glendale, about ten minutes north of downtown Glendale, five up Honolulu Avenue from La Crescenta, eight from JPL and roughly fifteen from Old Town Pasadena or Burbank. Get directions.