Third Wave Coffee with Steven Sadoff

A rifle carried into the Civil War had a coffee grinder built into the stock.

Steven Sadoff knows way too much about coffee, the five waves of it, from Maxwell House and instant coffee to the hand-brew obsessives to venture-backed chains like Blank Street. He opened his own shop in August 2009, right as the third wave’s locally owned era gave way to Blue Bottle and Stumptown’s investment money, and he’s got a real case for why a cup of coffee should cost as much as a glass of wine.