San Diego's Caffeine Crawl returns next weekend

San Diego’s Caffeine Crawl returns next weekend

Head roaster Nick Berardi makes a heart with roasted Guatemalan coffee beans at the Mostra warehouse in Carmel Mountain area.

June 18, 2021 9:28 AM PT

San Diego’s 8th annual Caffeine Crawl, a self-guided tour of up to 20 San Diego County coffee, tea and chocolate shops, will return on June 26 and 27.

This year’s businesses are located all over San Diego County. There are eight self-driving routes that ticket-buyers can choose which day they go and which four to five different shops they will visit. Tickets are $34.50 (for four location) to $38.50 (for five).

Participants include: Acento Coffee Roasters; Achilles Coffee Roasters; Cafe Moto; Coava Coffee Roasters; Coffee Hub and Cafe; Copa Vida; Dojo Cafe; Kakawa Coffee; HOB Coffee; Holsem Coffee; Manzanita Roasting; Moe Coffee; Moniker General; Mostra Coffee; Nibble Chocolate; Point Loma Tea; Por Vida Cafe; Public Square Coffee House; Ryan Bros. Coffee; S3 Coffee Bar; Ultreya Coffee and Tea; and Yipao Coffee. For details, visit caffeinecrawl.com.

Kragen writes about restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.