Pacific Bean Coffee

What people go for here

It works well for a pre-boardwalk drink or short sit.

• Funky Monkey Mocha
• Mudslide Mocha
• Turkish ice cream

Worth knowing: The broad mocha selection is the dominant strength, but not every visitor agrees with the café’s superlative best-mocha positioning.

The coffee

Long-running independent beach cafe specializing in flavored mochas, Turkish coffee, and a five-roast house-bean lineup.

The bean shelf is unusually explicit for a broad-menu beach cafe: Crystal Pier is a jasmine, peach, and honey light roast; Pacific Blend is medium with milk chocolate, almond, and orange peel; Mudslide Espresso runs medium-dark with cocoa nib, caramel, and walnut. Pour-over appears alongside drip and espresso, while Turkish coffee supplies the most distinctive preparation.

The room

Small, unfussy beachside cafe with limited interior seating and outdoor seats close to Crystal Pier; dogs are welcomed outside.

Family-run beachside café steps from Crystal Pier with outdoor seats and an extensive flavored-drink menu

The space

Intimate

Inside

Small cafe with some indoor seating.

Outside

Outdoor seats are available.

When it fills up

Early surfers and boardwalk visitors shape the morning; weekends run later and can bring more beach traffic.

Noise

Compact neighborhood-cafe sound level with likely turnover from beach visitors.

Parking

A local coffee-shop guide reports a parking lot.