In recent years, Bay Area cafés have made headlines with $16 coffees, $20 flavor-blasted cups and $75 pours. Now, a downtown San Francisco shop has reached what appears to be a new high water mark: a single cup of coffee for $105.
The luxurious brew is on offer at the Wild Fox, a Japanese-inspired café at 123 Battery St. For the triple-digit cup, bar staff use beans grown in southeastern Brazil and roasted in Tokyo by Glitch Coffee, a revered and influential coffee roaster.
Rich Lee and Liza Otanes, the husband-and-wife team behind local shop Spro Coffee Lab, and Tsubasa Onozaki, formerly a chef at Liholiho Yacht Club, opened the Wild Fox in late 2025. Lee said one of his goals is to bring the highest of high-grade coffees to customers. The café’s other coffee offerings include regular drip ($4.75); espresso drinks, such as cortados ($5.75); and pourovers (which start at $9), all made with premium beans…