Ascendo coffee is a San Luis Obispo coffee shop. We began with the idea of making the world a better place through our business. That idea remains at the core of our vision. We are truly humbled by all the beautiful relationships we have formed in our community.

We fell down the rabbit whole of roasting coffee in 2014 and haven’t looked back since. It has become the foundation of our passion for coffee. We have spent many hours testing roast profiles and rebuilding and modifying our roasters. We have become very confident in our ability to roast specialty coffee consistently well.

We moved from our small hole in the wall to a 2800 square foot building just two doors down from our shop in 2015. We did all the construction ourselves with the help of friends and family. It was an amazing and humbling experience to build something from the ground up with the help of the community we helped bring together.

In 2017 we got a new name. Ascendo Coffee! Same people, same values, same coffee! Ascendo means “I rise” in latin. The whole of our journey can be described by rising from the very little we had at the beginning. And we certainly couldn’t rise every morning without our coffee!