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Lulu Carpenter's

Delicious coffee. Freshly roasted in Santa Cruz, California. Our Coffee

Great coffee starts with great farmers. We humbly embrace that tradition. Really well.

That’s why we buy the freshest, most delicious coffees in season from farms, co-ops, and mills around the world. There’s a lot that goes into growing delicious coffee: high elevation, quality varietals, selective harvesting, skillful milling, and more. We buy only the best of the best and usually in very small lots, to ensure that our green coffee is as fresh as it can be when it arrives at our ro

asting works. Our Roasting

There is a venerable tradition to coffee roasting in America. For 25 years, rather than follow the latest fads, whether they be ultra-dark or über-light coffees, we have, day in and day out, roasted the coffee that we want to drink. Our roast profiles tend to the middle of the color spectrum (very early into second crack, for you home roasters out there), where a caramelly sweetness manifests. We generally eschew the carbon that develops in very dark roast profiles, and the sour acid notes that remain in coffees in which the roast has been stopped prior to second crack. We roast our coffees 5-6 days a week in small batches on a very nice, fire engine red, quarter-bag drum roaster named Gabriel-Mathieu de Clieu, although he prefers to be called Francois. We present each of our coffees roasted to the apex of its flavor. And while each coffee we roast has a defined and distinctive terroir that we highlight with our roasting, at its core, roasting coffee is about caramelizing sugars. So that's what we do. You're gonna like this stuff. Our Bags

We offer the freshest, most delicious coffee you can buy, anywhere. We hand pack every bag (and always add an extra bit to make it a Roasters 3/4 lb), and deliver them fresh to our stores. You’ll always find both a harvest and roast date on them. Look for that roast date and rummage around till you find the coffee that was roasted this morning. It's most likely on that shelf :-)

07/23/2026

Come visit us at our pacific avenue location and try some of our new limited time, seasonal Watermelon Gazpacho topped with chamoy and a citrus pepita crunch! 😋

03/19/2026

It’s hot out 🥵 Come cool off with our refreshing ice cold Mango Black Arnold Palmer and a delicious BLTA with garlic confit aioli!
Xoxo
Lulu

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02/25/2026

Our GRILLED CHEESE on sourdough with muenster, havarti, swiss and caramelized onions pairs perfectly with the new CREAMY CHEDDAR BROCC 💞 Oh yeah, we put CARAMELIZED ONIONS IN THE SOUP, TOO! MmmMmm delicious 🤤 Our soup is always made from scratch and with LOVE. Always cook like you’re cooking for mama.
DOWNTOWN
Xoxo 💋 Lulu

01/29/2026

Lulu’s just rolled out a BRAND NEW lunch menu, and we’re leading with our CUBANO!
Mojo-marinated pork (cooked low & slow till it falls apart), Swiss, shaved ham, house made pickles, chipotle aioli, yellow mustard, ALL on a bolillo!
$13
Lunch Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm.

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12/18/2025

Tache makes a really good Pistachio latte. Available at all our stores now. Happy holidays!

12/11/2025

12/10/2025

Midtown is now open at FIVE AM. EVERY DAY. And…we have fresh-made EGGNOG. HO HO HO….HO…HO

Address

1545 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA
95060

Website

http://www.lulucarpenters.com/

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