Philz Coffee

Philz Coffee began with a Palestinian immigrant named Phil Jaber, who spent twenty-five years running a corner grocery store at twenty-fourth and Folsom streets in the Mission District. During those decades, Jaber experimented with coffee blends in the back of his shop, eventually settling on a method that focused on low acidity and a handcrafted, pour-over process. He opened his first dedicated coffee shop at that same Mission corner on January first, two thousand three.