Sightglass opened its fifth cafe on May 8, 2026, on the ground floor of UC Berkeley's Helen Diller Anchor House, where downtown meets campus. Lundberg Design started from filtration and percolation, and from a vintage Probat. Concentric circles from the logo organize the plan. A long curved bar puts the baristas, and the work of making coffee, at the center of the room. Overhead, a soffit takes the shape of a bean hopper. A drum of steel mesh filters the daylight.

On Thursday, September 17, 2026, we hold that bar to one pressure: whether the work of making coffee is still allowed to sit in the middle of the room when the cone is called out of control, and when decaf costs the same as the good stuff.

The Global Coffee Awards Latin America edition, 12 August, named Café Baluarte de Veracruz overall. Producers sit on the same card. Professor Steven Abbott calls the filter cone crazy, an out of control system. The UX method tries to separate the variables with a lid and a magnetic stirrer. CoffeeGeek says decaf now costs as much as the good stuff. A paint-stripper headline. Descafecol in Manizales ran out of slots. Green from Colombia sailed to Germany and back. The Flair 49 Pro is a passive lever on the 49 millimeter puck. The sample basket had holes off center. Barista Hustle: no stickers on the espresso machine. Jane Cabusas Espante still chose the smaller cezve stage. Not a Barista, quiet from Shanghai toward Java. Young farmers. What comes next.

A curved bar. Baristas in the middle. The fourth wave is not a louder championship. It is whether the work still has the center of the room.