Coffee News.

Sightglass Coffee opened a Berkeley cafe on May 7, its first new location in six years and first Bay Area expansion in nearly a decade. The new shop sits at UC Berkeley’s Helen Diller Anchor House and debuts Grizzly Peak Blend, described by Sightglass as its first Regenerative Organic Certified coffee, with a portion of proceeds supporting the Edible Schoolyard Project.

Why it matters: Berkeley is outside the current Filter Notes city list, but Sightglass is already part of our San Francisco context and this is a meaningful regional move from one of the Bay Area’s defining specialty roasters. It is worth tracking for future East Bay coverage, especially because the opening combines campus footfall, a community rent model, and a new sourcing-led blend.

Villager, the Filter Notes-listed Brooklyn multi-roaster cafe, is planning a new Park Slope outpost at 374 Fifth Avenue, according to Hoodline’s May 15 report citing Crain’s New York Business. The owners have not announced a firm opening date yet, but the planned shop would bring Villager’s espresso, rotating single-origin pours, and pastry program from Classon Avenue into one of Park Slope’s main retail corridors.

Why it matters: Villager is already one of the stronger coffee-first rooms on the New York shortlist, and a Fifth Avenue branch would materially change how readers can route coffee around Prospect Park, Gowanus, and central Park Slope. Filter Notes context: https://www.filternotes.com/new-york/villager