Coffee Cycle Roasting

Coffee Cycle Roasting is a San Diego roaster founded by Chris O’Brien, who started the business in the mid-2010s as a pedal-powered coffee cart before opening a cafe in Pacific Beach. The company moved into roasting during the pandemic and opened a larger roastery and cafe in Ocean Beach in late 2024, where O’Brien roasts on a 5-kilo Mill City machine. Its Honduras Geisha E-F by Pedro Turcios scored 96 points from Coffee Review in November 2025 and ranked No. 9 on Coffee Review’s Top 50 Coffees of 2025, and its Colombia Nestor Lasso El Diviso DF Caturra earned 95 points in February 2026. The menu mixes a sweet, washed house coffee with experimental Colombian lots and Ethiopian naturals, all roasted to order on Mondays. That range and the low per-bag prices make it an easy way to taste competition-level processing at home without paying competition-level money.