Ryan Brothers Coffee Inc

User Review:

• Not so long ago, it would have been hard to imagine a place like Ryan Bros. Coffee thriving in Barrio Logan. Rather than newly roasted gourmet coffee beans, the signature scents of the neighborhood were industrial fumes and sizzling burritos and carbon dioxide from the traffic on the bridge that looms over so many of its 550 acres. Spilled beer and Mexican food smells permeated the two-story brick building on the northwest corner of Main Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard, where the much-loved Chuey's Restaurant operated for decades. But when its founder died, his offspring moved the business into the building on the opposite side of the intersection. The Ryan family (consisting of Tom Ryan Sr. and his wife Helena, brothers Tom, Harry and Carmine, and Tom's wife Jennifer) relocated their coffee-roasting business to the older site in 2004. For anyone feeling stressed out the coffeehouse has to be a comfort. The brick walls are weathered but the beautifully colored concrete floors are polished and new. The Ryans preserved some of the old murals that once adorned Chuey's, but they added cozy lighting and ceiling fans. You can sit at the antique bar where Jesse James once sat (back when the bar was installed in northern California) and sip on sweet Mexican cocoa or a blend of white tea and yerba mate or – have an excellent cup of coffee to wake you up.
• The description was provided by Jeannette M. De Wyze