Second Pour
Specialty coffee at a 1974 diner counter · SE Belmont, Portland
Est. 1974
Re-poured 2019
Open today
6:30 – 3:00
Dot poured the first cup at this counter on March 4, 1974. The second one was free.
Fifty-two years on, the stools wear new tangerine vinyl, the beans come from three roasters up and down the Northwest, and the second cup is still on us.
Thursday, Oct 29On bar today
- EspressoDot's Blend, Huila + Guji · milk chocolate, red apple
- Batch filterKenya Gatomboya AA · blackcurrant, hibiscus · refills free
- GuestLa Soledad Gesha, Panama · jasmine, bergamot · $9
- DecafTolima sugarcane · panela, dark cherry
- SeasonalToasted hazelnut latte · marionberry tonic
- In the caseFourteen marionberry hand pies at 6:40
- TurntableMinnie Riperton, Come to My Garden, side two
The drinks board
Every shot weighed. Every refill free.
The board changes with the beans. Shots are 18.5 grams in and 40 out, milk is steamed to 140°F, and filter refills are on us for as long as you're sitting at the counter.
Cortado
One to one · 4.5 oz glass
Gibraltar glass, 4.5 oz
Espresso, steamed milk, foam
6:40 a.m.
a.m. The case is full, the ovens are still warm
From the case
Baked behind the counter, gone by noon
Ilse Brandt lights the ovens at 4:30. By twenty to seven the case is full; by ten the hand pies are spoken for. Flour is stone-milled in the Willamette Valley, butter comes from Tillamook County, and whatever's left at two goes home with whoever closes.
- 5.25
Marionberry hand pie
All-butter crust, berries from a farm outside Aurora, a crackle of turbinado.
- 4.75
Cardamom morning bun
Laminated dough, orange zest and cardamom sugar, baked in a tin so the edges caramelize.
- 3.50
Brown butter hazelnut cookie
70% chocolate, flaky salt, no flour. Best warm, which it usually is.
- 4.50
Cheddar & chive scone
Aged Tillamook cheddar and cracked pepper. Ask and we'll warm it with butter.
- 4.25
Dot's coffee cake
Her 1974 recipe card is taped inside the pantry door. We changed only the cinnamon.
- 9.50
The Belmont
Fried egg, cheddar, tomato jam and greens on a house English muffin. Till 1:30.
The cookie is gluten-free, and so is Ilse's olive oil cake on Saturdays. Ask about allergens and we'll show you the recipe card.
Our beans
Three roasters, one tank of gas
We buy from three roasters within 120 miles and bring in one guest a month. Every bag rests 7 to 14 days before it's ground, and we write what the farm was paid on the board.
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Espresso & every milk drink
Dot's Blend
Fernhill Roasting Co. · NE Alberta St, Portland
4.2 miles from the counter
- Origin
- Huila, Colombia + Guji, Ethiopia
- Process
- Washed + natural
- Altitude
- 1,750–2,150 m
- Paid to the farms
- $5.40 / lb FOB
- Tastes like
- Milk chocolate, red apple, orange peel
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Batch filter & pour-over
Gatomboya AA
Tidewater Coffee · Marine Drive, Astoria
96 miles, up the Columbia
- Origin
- Nyeri, Kenya
- Process
- Washed, SL28 & SL34
- Altitude
- 1,750–1,850 m
- Paid to the farms
- $6.10 / lb FOB
- Tastes like
- Blackcurrant, hibiscus, cola
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Decaf, all day
Sugarcane decaf
Kettle & Crow Roasters · Olympia, Washington
114 miles, the long way
- Origin
- Tolima, Colombia
- Process
- Sugarcane E.A. decaf
- Altitude
- 1,600–1,900 m
- Paid to the farms
- $4.95 / lb FOB
- Tastes like
- Panela, dark cherry, cocoa
November guest: La Soledad Gesha
From Boquete, Panama, roasted by Highline Coffee in Bend. Jasmine, bergamot, white peach. Pour-over only at $9, until the bag is empty.
The space
Fourteen stools and thirty-eight feet of Formica
We kept nearly everything Dot left us: the pedestal stools, the counter, the sunburst clock that runs four minutes fast. The stools got new tangerine vinyl. The rest got a good scrub.
- 01Window seats go first. The gold-leaf lettering reads backwards from in here.
- 02Fifty-one mismatched diner mugs. Bring one in and we'll add it to the shelf.
- 03Dot, 1974, under the clock that still runs four minutes fast.
- 04Two groups, re-enamelled Harvest Gold to match the stools. Noor pulls about 400 shots a day.
- 05The pour-over stand is built from the old pie shelf.
- 06Stool 9 is Walt's. Filter since 1981. He has never paid for a second cup.
- 07Portland coat rack: raincoats eleven months a year.
- 08Biscuit naps under stool 11 most mornings. Water bowl's by the door.
- 09The jukebox takes quarters. They go to the Belmont food pantry.
Find the counter
2218 SE Belmont, between 22nd and 23rd
| Monday – Friday | 6:30 am – 3:00 pm |
|---|---|
| Saturday & Sunday | 7:30 am – 3:00 pm |
| Kitchen | Sandwiches till 1:30 pm |
| Thanksgiving | 7:30 am – noon |
(555) 014-2328 [email protected]
The 15 bus stops at Belmont & 22nd, a stool-length from the door. Bike racks out front, street parking on 23rd, and a step-free side door on the left.
The regulars' card
Nine stamps and the tenth is on us
Not that you need it: the refill's already free. Ask for a card at the register, or just tell Ana your name. She keeps a box of them under the tip jar. Go on, punch a few.
free
One stamp per drink. Refills don't count; they're already free.
Tap a circle to punch it.