Blue Bottle - B Street

Our B Street cafe resides in a landmark Art Deco building that has been a social hub in San Mateo's downtown since 1931. Its many incarnations include cigar store, soda fountain, and clandestine hall for bookmakers taking bets. We designed our cafe with such conviviality in mind, conceiving the seating area behind the coffee bar as a "room within a room," demarcating it with tawny ash wood paneling that clads both ceiling and walls. The effect is like a modernist take on the steak house of yesteryear, where the right mix of darkness and warmth spotlight the immediate pleasures of coffee and food at hand.

201 S B Street, San Mateo, CA

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