Ascendo coffee is a coffee shop based in San Luis Obispo. We started with the idea that we could make the world a better place by participating in our community through business. That idea remains at the core of our vision. We are humbled by the wonderful relationships we have built in our community.

We fell in love with roasting coffee in 2014, and haven’t looked back. It is the cornerstone of our passion for coffee. We have spent countless hours experimenting with roast profiling and rebuilding and modifying our roasters. We are confident in our ability 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. With the help of some friends and family, we did all of the construction ourselves. 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!