A pop-up coffee omakase from Blue Bottle’s founder? Here’s the secret location
LA TimesJames Freeman, founder of Blue Bottle, is opening a 40-day experimental coffee studio. The first official Blue Bottle Studio, featuring coffee tastings developed by Freeman and the company’s head of global innovation, Benjamin Brewer, opened last year in Kyoto at another temporary cafe in a historic machiya townhouse near Nanzen-ji Temple, followed by a pop-up studio in central Hong Kong. A Blue Bottle Studio soluble coffee from Yemen, processed by Benjamin Brewer, the company’s global head of innovation, brewed with 150-degree water and served in a footed glass. “The thing that kills good soluble coffee is the water being too hot.” The Blue Bottle Studio tastings will be led by Michael Phillips, left, Blue Bottle director of education and engagement; Selina Viguera, cafe lead for Blue Bottle Studio; Benjamin Brewer, global head of innovation; and Blue Bottle founder James Freeman. “It belongs on that table.” The California-grown coffee also was served at the Kyoto Blue Bottle Studio, to great response, Freeman says.
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