OB Beans Coffee Roasters

What people go for here

OB Beans works best as a spacious, lively neighborhood roastery where house-roasted espresso drinks and a laptop-friendly setup carry equal weight. The many tables, outlets, and Wi-Fi support productive visits, while hard seating, louder music, morning crowding, and street parking favor a flexible one-to-two-hour session over an all-day campout.

• House-roasted espresso drinks

Worth knowing: Most seating is firm, conversation and music can run loud, and headphones are useful for focused work. Street parking near the main Ocean Beach corridor can require parking uphill and walking a few blocks.

The coffee

Ocean Beach roastery café producing blends and single origins in house, now operated under Sur Coffee, with an explicit farm-to-cup and producer-story focus.

The Newport Avenue café houses a 10-kilogram Mill City roaster and produces both blends and single origins for the bar and wholesale accounts. Official copy emphasizes producer relationships and the full coffee journey. A 2025 branch visit found the cappuccino flavorful with decent foam and only slight bitterness, even during a crowded morning.

The room

Large, open, mural-lined roastery café with concrete floors, high and low tables, dogs, laptops, and a social Ocean Beach hum.

A large, work-oriented roastery café on busy Newport Avenue with mixed high and low tables; nearby street parking can require a walk.

The space

Spacious

Inside

Ample mixed seating, including high and low tables, benches, metal chairs, and a couch.

Outside

Outdoor patio seating is available.

When it fills up

A Monday morning visit in 2025 found the room quite full, with a seat opening after a short wait.

Noise

Generally louder than many cafés, with conversation and sometimes loud, varied music.

Parking

Street parking around Newport Avenue is limited; one study guide suggests parking uphill and walking a few blocks when needed.