Verve Coffee Roasters

Verve Coffee Roasters is a coffee roaster based in Santa Cruz, California, founded by Colby Barr^[1] and Ryan O'Donovan.^[2] Verve opened in November, 2007^[3] in Pleasure Point, California. The company currently operates in several California-based locations,^[4] including four in Santa Cruz, four in Los Angeles, one in San Francisco, one in Manhattan Beach, one in Palo Alto, and two in Menlo Park at the campuses of Meta and SLAC.^[5] They also have four locations in Japan: one at the Shinjuku, Tokyo train station, one in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, one in Kamakura, and a cafe/roastery in the Kanagawa Prefecture. Verve earned the highest score in the coffee category at the Good Food Awards in 2013^[6] and was also named one of the top coffee roasters in the United States by Thrillist,^[7] Complex Magazine,^[8] and Food Republic ^[9] In 2018, they won the Best Espresso at the Coffee Spot Awards, and in 2021 be nominated for the cafe in Japan at the World Latitude Caffe Prize.