Coffee House
Handlebar Coffee Roasters
Two locations; handlebarcoffee.com
Aaron Olson and Kim Anderson spent the better part of a decade as professional cyclists, sipping hot drinks in café atmospheres between races in Spain, Germany, and France. Not bad. The couple then found Santa Barbara through the Amgen Tour of California and opened their first café on Canon Perdido a few years back, more recently expanding what we think will become a coffee-drinking empire to a high-ceilinged De la Vina Street space. They serve goodies from Renaud’s Patisserie, bagels from the I.V. Bagel Café, and locally made Twenty-Four Blackbirds chocolates.
Runner-Up: The Daily Grind