Acre Coffee, based in Petaluma, makes a good cup of joe. All their coffee is French pressed, and while I usually grab a cup while flying through their San Francisco Civic Center location, when I'm in Petaluma, I slow down and nurse a cup at one of their tables as long as I can.
The walls feature a rotation of art from local artists, changing with the months -- landscape photos that show the peace of the desert at dawn, delicate collages of strong waves. The seating is reminiscent of a time where schools were in large one-room houses, and features (the ever popular) communal table, alongside desk-sized spaces.
Their website describes themselves “as modern rustic interior design makes use of mostly reclaimed materials,” but have what people want in a coffee shop today -- free Wi-Fi, and outlets at every table that blend seamlessly into the space.
And while the interior is a contrast of the strong Victorian design aesthetics that Petaluma is known for, it melds into the environment, and doesn’t overpower the space, and so when a
patron steps back outside the large turn of 20th century building the coffee shop is housed in, it isn’t jarring, but rather a gentle reminder of how things change.
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