The dimly lit espresso bar at Verso Coffee Roasters — copper pendant lights over a walnut counter and a matte black espresso machine

№ 001 — Portland, Oregon

The other side
of coffee.

A specialty coffee bar & small-batch roastery. We roast every Thursday, brew slowly, and keep the lights low on purpose.

Read the menu Find the door
№ 01 Manifesto

In a book, the verso is the left-hand page — the quiet one, the side nobody reads first. That's the coffee we make. Not the loudest cup in the city. The one you come back to. We buy from farms we can name, roast in batches small enough to ruin, and pull every shot like it's being graded.

№ 03 This week's roast
Freshly roasted specialty coffee beans spilling from a copper scoop onto dark slate
fig. 01 — Thursday's batch, cooling

Recto

Light roast

Ethiopia — Guji, washed

Apricot, bergamot, black tea. The bright side of the page.

250 g$19

Verso

Dark roast

Brazil — Cerrado Mineiro, natural

Cacao nib, hazelnut, burnt caramel. The house cup. Our namesake.

250 g$17

Marginalia

Seasonal

Colombia — Huila, honey process

Red plum, panela, cola. Notes written in the margins.

250 g$21
№ 04 The Space
A barista in a black apron steaming milk at the espresso machine under warm light
fig. 02 — the bar, 7:04am
A flat white with rosetta latte art in a matte black ceramic cup on a charcoal stone table
fig. 03 — flat white, table six
Espresso extracting from a bottomless portafilter into a dark ceramic cup
fig. 04 — extraction, 27 seconds

Twelve seats, one long walnut bar, no laptops on weekends. Come read something. The wifi password is a poem and we change it when we get bored of it.

№ 05 Visit

Find the quiet side of Grand Ave.

214 SE Grand Ave
Portland, OR 97214
Mon — Fri7:00 — 17:00
Sat — Sun8:00 — 17:00
Roast dayThursday, doors at 8:00
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