Part of a New Antelope Valley

We opened in 2009 and since then a new eating and drinking scene has emerged in the Antelope Valley. It’s almost tempting to say we live in a new Antelope Valley because ten years ago there was no local craft brewing scene, Lancaster BLVD was still Lancaster Boulevard, a hum-drum downtown street with no art…

Getting coffee on your trip to the California Poppy Reserve

Headline: Sagebrush Cafe is the best place to stop for coffee on your way to the California Poppy Reserve. Also, not surprisingly, a morning coffee turns out to be the perfect complement to a trip to see the Poppies. As the Reserve’s official website points out, “Poppies open up in mid morning, and curl up…

Did Coffee Kill Beer Soup?

As world beverages go, coffee is a neophyte – not steeped in a long history, as it were, but as of now still fresh brewed and in the first flush of its aromatic, world-conquering glory. Did you know that the recorded history of tea goes back three thousand years earlier than the history of coffee?…

Thank you, Arabica!

In the 1970s, the arabica coffee bean emerged as the dominant force in American coffee and changed everything. Up to that point, robusta beans were likely to be what you’d sip in diners and dive-bars – and at home too. Café culture played a big role in flipping the script in American coffee by introducing…