Sana’a Cafe—the San Francisco-based Yemeni coffee brand—is officially coming to Long Beach. It will be the first tenant to take advantage of the DTLB residential complex Resa’s ground-floor retail, setting up shop at the northeast corner of 3rd Street and Pacific Avenue.
And with it, brings a bit of coffee history.
Sana’a Cafe’s Long Beach location is part of an expanding Yemeni coffee culture brewing statewide.
Long before coffeehouses became synonymous with Italy or Seattle, the mountainous terraces of Yemen were cultivating what many historians consider the world’s first commercially traded coffee. That history has become the foundation for a new generation of Yemeni cafés across California—Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co. being the most prevalent of them, which expanded quickly in the Bay Area before opening multiple locations across SoCal…