7 coffee shops, hand-picked
7 best coffee shops in Sacramento, all local roasters
Seven Sacramento coffee shops that roast their own beans, from Temple and Chocolate Fish to Camellia and Pachamama, with addresses and October 2026 hours.
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Sacramento is a roaster’s city: every café in this guide roasts its own coffee. Temple has grown from one coffee house in 2005 to nine, Chocolate Fish roasts in East Sacramento, and Pachamama is owned by the farmers who grow its beans. Two cafés come with history: Milka is in an 1861 house in Mansion Flats, and Old Soul’s Oak Park café is in the old Woodruff Hotel. Most open at 6:00 or 7:00 and close in the afternoon; Temple’s S Street café stays open until 22:00.
The photos are Sasha’s own, taken on her trip to Sacramento. Addresses, hours, roasters and drinks come from each café’s own website, checked in October 2026. We haven’t added tasting notes we can’t stand behind.
Updated October 2026: removed Insight Coffee Roasters, whose downtown café has closed, and Tiferet and The Naked Lounge, whose websites and Instagram accounts are gone. Corrected Temple’s history and Camellia’s address, and rechecked every café’s hours.
The short version
- All seven roast their own coffee.
- For a coffee in the evening, Temple on S Street is open every day until 22:00.
- Milka is in an 1861 house in Mansion Flats, and Old Soul @ 40 Acres in the old Woodruff Hotel in Oak Park.
- Pachamama is owned by a cooperative of coffee farmers, and its espresso drinks come with oat milk by default.
The numbers are for finding your way, not a ranking. The list keeps the cafés from the first version of this guide that are still open, in the same order. Hours are as each café published them in October 2026; where a café doesn’t publish them, we say so.
1. Temple Coffee Roasters
- 2829 S St, Sacramento, CA 95816
Temple founder Sean Kohmescher, a barista, opened the first Temple coffee house in 2005 after a long stay in Indonesia, wanting a gathering place like the temples he had visited there, according to Temple. It now has nine coffee houses and its own roastery, and roasts each coffee to its own profile.
Temple says it pays well above Fair Trade prices to the farms it buys from, and its 12 oz bags are made from plant-based packaging. The S Street café in Midtown has a patio, free Wi-Fi and pastries. An earlier version of this guide gave a different founding story; this one is Temple’s own.
- Also at: K St, 16th St, 9th St, H St, Fair Oaks Blvd, Hazel Ave, Davis and Folsom
- Coffee: Temple’s own roasts
- Hours: S Street: every day, 6:00 to 22:00 (as of October 2026, per Temple)
2. Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters
- 4749 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95819
Chocolate Fish roasts at its East Sacramento café on Folsom Boulevard. It was a finalist for ROAST Magazine’s Roaster of the Year in 2023, and it buys microlots through direct relationships with farmers, according to Chocolate Fish.
It also teaches: in October 2026 it ran coffee tasting classes on Saturdays, and it offers courses up to Specialty Coffee Association certifications. Besides East Sacramento, it has cafés downtown, in Land Park and Curtis Park, in Folsom, and at Sacramento International Airport.
- Also at: 1123 12th St (downtown), 2940 Freeport Blvd (Land Park) and Sacramento International Airport, Terminal B
- Coffee: Chocolate Fish’s own roasts
- Hours: East Sacramento: every day, 6:00 to 17:00 (as of October 2026, per Chocolate Fish)
3. The Mill
- 1827 I St, Sacramento, CA 95811
The Mill was founded in 2013 by Nick, a specialty coffee professional, and Ilah, an artist, as a coffee and tea stall at the Saturday farmers market in Midtown. In 2014 they opened this café on I Street, three blocks from the market, according to The Mill.
They started roasting in 2017 and opened a second café in East Sacramento, which also houses The Mill’s Coffee Roasting & Tea Studio. The Mill sells teas and herbal blends alongside its coffee, and its current blends include Luminary and Matriarch.
- Also at: East Sacramento (with the roastery)
- Coffee: The Mill’s own roasts
- Hours: not published on its website; check @themillsacramento before you go
4. Old Soul @ 40 Acres
- 3434 Broadway, Sacramento, CA 95817
Old Soul began in 2006 in a renovated storage warehouse in a Midtown alley, roasting coffee and baking for wholesale. When people walking by asked for coffee, the owners sold it for $2 cash on the honor system, according to Old Soul. That alley café, The Alley, is still running.
The Oak Park café opened in early 2010 on the ground floor of the old Woodruff Hotel, in a space that had been a closed Starbucks. It’s within walking distance of bookstores and theaters, and Old Soul’s partners include Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates and Giusto’s flour.
- Also at: The Alley (Midtown), Weatherstone, 555 Capitol Mall and Fair Oaks Village
- Coffee: Old Soul’s own roasts
- Hours: every day, 6:30 to 16:00; the kitchen closes at 15:00 (as of October 2026, per Old Soul)
5. Milka Coffee Roasters
- 1501 G St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Milka is named after the founder’s great-grandmother, Milka Radonich, who ran a small business in Sacramento. Founder and roaster Samir Benouar worked behind espresso machines in New York and San Francisco before opening it in his hometown, according to Milka.
The flagship café is in Mansion Flats, in a registered historic building from 1861. It was built in the Italianate style and given Queen Anne bay windows in the 1890s, and the Benouar family restored it after years of vacancy, according to Milka. There’s a terrace out front.
- Coffee: Milka’s own roasts
- Hours: not published on its website; check @milka_coffee before you go
6. Camellia Coffee Roasters
- 1200 R St, Suite 130, Sacramento, CA 95811
Ryan Harden and Rob Watson founded Camellia in 2016 and named it after Sacramento’s city flower, the camellia. They began as a small wholesale roaster and opened their first café in 2018 in a stall at the WAL Public Market in the R Street Corridor, according to Camellia.
Its breakfast sandwiches became popular enough that Camellia outgrew the stall. In fall 2022 it moved into a former Starbucks on R Street and brought its roastery under the same roof. The café has no phone; it takes questions by email. An earlier version of this guide gave its old address at 1104 R Street.
- Coffee: Camellia’s own roasts
- Hours: every day, 7:00 to 16:00 (as of October 2026, per Camellia)
- Known for: breakfast sandwiches
7. Pachamama Coffee
- 3644 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Pachamama is a cooperative owned by coffee farmers. It was founded in 2006, after farmers in Peru asked why they shouldn’t roast their own coffee, and today it sells only certified organic, shade-grown coffee from smallholder farms, according to Pachamama. The name means “Earth Mother” to the Indigenous peoples of the Andes.
All its espresso drinks use oat milk by default, and it doesn’t charge for other milks. The J Street café is in East Sacramento; there’s also one in Midtown, one inside the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, and others in Davis and Placerville. An earlier version of this guide said Pachamama bought from several roasters; it roasts its own.
- Also at: 919 20th St (Midtown) and 2820 R St (inside the Natural Foods Co-op)
- Coffee: Pachamama’s own roasts, all organic
- Hours: East Sacramento: weekdays 6:00 to 17:00, weekends 7:00 to 17:00 (as of October 2026, per Pachamama)
Tips before you go
- Most of these cafés close between 16:00 and 17:00. For an evening coffee, Temple’s S Street, K Street, Fair Oaks Boulevard and Hazel Avenue cafés are open until 22:00.
- Midtown has the most within walking distance: Temple on S Street, The Mill on I Street, Milka in Mansion Flats and Pachamama on 20th Street.
- Camellia has no phone. For questions, email the café.
- To brew the beans you bring home, see our pour over guide or our cold brew guide.
Sacramento coffee shops FAQ
All seven in this guide: Temple, Chocolate Fish, The Mill, Old Soul, Milka, Camellia and Pachamama.
Temple’s S Street, K Street, Fair Oaks Boulevard and Hazel Avenue cafés are open every day until 22:00, as of October 2026. Most other cafés here close between 16:00 and 17:00.
Sean Kohmescher opened the first Temple coffee house in Sacramento in 2005. Temple now has nine coffee houses and its own roastery.
Its café at 1901 8th Street is now home to Tupi Coffee, as the Sacramento Bee reported, and its website no longer works, so we removed it from this guide in October 2026.
Pachamama is a cooperative owned by smallholder coffee farmers. It was founded in 2006 and sells only certified organic coffee.
Sources
- Temple Coffee Roasters: About us and Locations
- Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters and Locations
- The Mill: About
- Old Soul Co.: About and 40 Acres in Oak Park
- Milka Coffee Roasters: About and Location
- Camellia Coffee Roasters: About and Contact
- Pachamama Coffee: About and Locations
- Sacramento Bee, via SACtoday: Tupi Coffee moves to the former Insight Coffee Roasters site on 8th Street
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