Ritual Coffee Roasters

Cute little spot on Market Street. Great Cold brew, and a decent selection on pastries. It's just a coffee bar, so there's no lounging around here to enjoy your drinks. Like take your drink and go kind of place. There are a few benches along the wall though. The woman working was friendly, and I was in and out. There are multiple locations. However, they're not very big yet. I hope they stay this way. Nothing worse than getting bought out by Nestle or another large corporation. I'll completely stop buying their coffee like I have with Blue Bottle.

I love this place, but alot of the staff had moved on...not to crazy about the new manager. I just make sure to not go when she is there , my BFF and I love ritual but good vibes are important in a place where you eat and drink. So we avoid when manager is there, we need positivity in the Castro . We understand people have bad days but this one seems negative all the time, leave that stuff at home before you come to work, it chases people away. One morning we came in to get coffee at 9 am and we where told we would have to wait for drip coffee only. that is not what we wanted. The next day another worker said they don't do the maditorty drip coffee till 10 AM..wow what gives?? we felt discriminated against?? we had decided to walk to the location of 22nd and Valencia instaed of dealing with that manager. We just found out there is another worker whom is now there and she is friendly so we only go to get our coffee when she is there.

It's close to my home, has cool ambiance and we usually buy their ground coffee beans at Bi-rite market, but when I decided to visit it in person with my husband, well, it was the first time when barista denied our request to make a lungo (espresso with more water, nothing difficult or special, or expensive, though we were ready to pay more if needed). Funny that he knew how to make it but refused without telling the reason why :-) Other places in San Francisco always agree to make lungo when we ask, even when it's not on the menu, so, sadly, this place is not for us.