Coffee Plantation: Specialty Coffee, Breakfast and Lunch in Scottsdale, AZ

A picker taking ripe red coffee cherries off the branch by hand

Stop 01 / 07 · The harvest

It starts on a branch.

Coffee grows as a fruit, and only the deep red ones are ready. They get taken off the branch by hand, one at a time, because a machine cannot tell ripe from nearly.

72°F · picked ripe

Green coffee beans in an open jute sack ready to be moved

Stop 02 / 07 · The haul

Down the hill before dark.

Everything picked that morning has to reach the mill the same day or it starts fermenting in the basket. Sorted, hulled, and stacked into jute for the long ride.

70°F · same-day haul

Coffee beans spread across raised drying beds being raked by hand in the sun

Stop 03 / 07 · The drying beds

Two weeks of sun.

Raked out thin across raised beds and turned by hand, every few hours, for days. Rush this step and the whole crop tastes flat. Nobody rushes this step.

104°F · sun on the beds

Green coffee beans going into a hot roasting drum

Stop 04 / 07 · The roast

First crack.

Beans go in pale and grassy and come out dark and sweet. The entire flavor of the cup you are about to drink gets decided in roughly twelve minutes of heat.

420°F · first crack

Freshly ground coffee falling from the grinder into the portafilter

Stop 05 / 07 · The grind

Ground for your drink.

Fine for espresso, coarser for the batch brew. Ground the moment you order, because coffee starts losing what the roast gave it about a minute after it is broken open.

78°F · dialed in

A barista pouring steamed milk into a fresh espresso

Stop 06 / 07 · The pour

Nine bars, thirty seconds.

Water at brewing temperature pushed through the bed until the crema comes up the color of caramel. Milk steamed to the same heat, folded in, finished by hand.

200°F · brew water

A finished cortado in a Coffee Plantation cup, handed across the bar in Scottsdale

Stop 07 / 07 · Yours

Warm in your hands.

Two weeks in the sun, an ocean crossing, twelve minutes in fire, thirty seconds under pressure. All of it for the next four minutes, which are yours.

155°F · ready to drink

You are welcome to stay.

Coffee Plantation sits on East Shea in Scottsdale, Arizona, and it was built to be a place you settle into rather than pass through. A different local artist takes the walls every month. Live music plays on weekends. The patio runs late, the wifi is quick, and nobody is going to look at your laptop and sigh.

“We would rather you stayed. That is why the patio is open late and the wifi is fast.”

7aopen every day Newartist on the walls monthly Livemusic on weekends

Four ways to get a cup.

Whichever one fits your morning. The coffee is the same either way.

Order ahead

Put your order in on the app or online and it is waiting on the counter when you walk in. No line, no waiting on the bar.

iPhone app Android app

Order at the bar

Walk up and tell us what you are in the mood for. If you do not know, say what you usually drink and we will get you close.

Stay a while

Grab the patio or a table inside. Fast wifi, art on the walls, live music on the weekend. Breakfast runs into lunch without a gap.

Open 7a daily, 10p on Fri & Sat

Feed the whole office

Takeout catering for meetings, classrooms, and early mornings that need to go well. Send a note and we will build the order with you.

What people say.

The crepe is much larger than it looks, comes out warm, and is a serious delight.

The new atmosphere is amazing and the menu items are phenomenal after the recent remodel.

Great coffee, and the iced americano hits the spot every single time. Friendly, fast, and the patio is a good place to sit.

Find us on Shea.

For catering, a private event, a large order, or anything else, send a note and we will get back to you. For anything happening today, calling is faster.

Find us7366 E Shea Blvd Ste 101, Scottsdale, AZ 85260

HoursMon–Thu 7a–9p · Fri–Sat 7a–10p · Sun 7a–9p

Call(480) 991-4066

OrderOrder online or on the app

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Coffee Plantation, specialty coffee, breakfast and lunch in Scottsdale, Arizona. Picked, dried, roasted, poured.

One bean. Seven stops.