Handlebar Coffee Roasters
Café · Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara
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Handlebar Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee roastery and café with two locations in Santa Barbara, founded in 2011 by Aaron Olson and Kim Anderson, both former professional road cyclists. The pair passed through town racing the Amgen Tour of California in 2008 and stayed to open a roastery built around a German machine they named Hercules. For a visiting cyclist, it means coffee roasted in-house by people who spent years racing in the European peloton.
Olson and Anderson met racing bikes professionally in Europe before settling in Santa Barbara: Anderson went on to win the 2009 Route de France Féminine, the women's equivalent of the Tour de France, while Olson spent nearly a decade on the American and European pro circuits. After the 2008 Amgen Tour of California brought them through town, they trained at the American Coffee & Barista School in Portland, Oregon, and opened the café and roastery on East Cañon Perdido Street in November 2011. Riders who stop in are served by people who know exactly what a long day on the bike takes out of you.
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Two Santa Barbara locations: the original café and roastery at 128 E. Cañon Perdido St. downtown (opened November 2011) and a second location at 2720 De La Vina St. in Mid-town.
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- Why stop at Handlebar Coffee Roasters on a bike ride?
- Handlebar Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee roastery and café with two locations in Santa Barbara, founded in 2011 by Aaron Olson and Kim Anderson, both former professional road cyclists. The pair passed through town racing the Amgen Tour of California in 2008 and stayed to open a roastery built around a German machine they named Hercules. For a visiting cyclist, it means coffee roasted in-house by people who spent years racing in the European peloton.
- Where is Handlebar Coffee Roasters?
- Handlebar Coffee Roasters is in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara (California, United States).