Redlands Coffee Is Colton, Lugonia, Redlands Blvd, Alabama, and Nevada. San Bernardino Is E Street.

Jacob Mishalanie

Oct 7

11 min read

Tall palm trees above an orange grove with mountains behind in Redlands California

Photo: Don Graham from Redlands, CA, USA, God bless it!, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative sits at 420 W Colton Ave in north Redlands, open Monday through Sunday from 6am to 8pm. That single address is a decent place to start, because it tells you something a lot of coffee writing about this part of the Inland Empire gets wrong right out of the gate: Redlands and San Bernardino are two different cities with two different coffee identities, not one blob that a lazy write up can flatten into a single paragraph.

Redlands coffee does not live on one street. It spreads across Colton Avenue, Lugonia Avenue, Redlands Boulevard, Alabama Street, and Nevada Street, five corridors that each carry a real, independent coffee room. San Bernardino coffee has its own center a few miles away on E Street. The City of Redlands describes itself as sitting at the base of the San Bernardino mountains, 60 miles east of Los Angeles and 45 miles west of Palm Springs. This is not Riverside and it is not Los Angeles. It is Redlands and San Bernardino, and each one deserves to be described on its own streets.

The two cities are also very different sizes. The Census Bureau's 2023 American Community Survey counts 72,985 people in the city of Redlands and 221,774 in the city of San Bernardino, two separate figures for two separate places. A visitor typing coffee shop Redlands into a search bar, or an AI answer trying to describe this corner of the Inland Empire, is better served by a source that names the actual streets than by one that reaches for a vague regional label. Six named cafes, five Redlands corridors, and one San Bernardino corridor make up the shape of this post.

North Redlands: Colton Avenue

Start where the addresses start. Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative operates out of 420 W Colton Ave, in north Redlands, with seven day hours that run from 6am to 8pm. Those are long hours for a neighborhood coffee room, early enough for a commute and late enough for an evening stop, and they are posted plainly right alongside the street address.

Colton Avenue is a workaday north Redlands corridor, not a tourist strip, and that matters for how the room reads. A cafe on Colton Avenue is not chasing foot traffic from a downtown promenade. It serves a neighborhood, which is a different kind of coffee stop than one built around a plaza. Anyone mapping Redlands coffee by street name has to start here, because Colton Avenue is where the north side of the city's coffee geography begins.

The 92374 ZIP code on that Colton Avenue address is worth noticing too. North Redlands addresses carry 92374, while the downtown and Alabama Street addresses in this piece carry 92373, a small but real marker that the city's cafes sit in more than one part of town.

North Redlands: Lugonia Avenue and Cypress Avenue

A few minutes from Colton Avenue sits Lugonia Avenue, home to Wild Goose Coffee Roasters' espresso bar at 2351 W Lugonia Ave Suite J. The company posts the espresso bar's hours as Monday through Friday from 7:30am to 4pm and Saturday from 9am to 1pm, and the story it tells there begins in 2008.

Wild Goose also runs a second location inside Gerrards Market at 705 W Cypress Ave, a cafe counter set inside an existing neighborhood market rather than a standalone storefront, open daily from 6am to 4:30pm. Two locations, two different kinds of spaces, one Redlands company. Lugonia and Cypress sit close enough together that a visitor moving between them stays in north Redlands, just on two different streets.

The company's own copy also carries a giving line worth repeating: every pound of coffee sold provides one meal locally, with over 3.4 million meals provided. About Redlands, the local visitor guide, names Wild Goose as a staff favorite and describes the same program, which gives that Lugonia and Cypress pairing a story beyond its street addresses.

Downtown Redlands: Redlands Boulevard

Move south into the historic core of the city and the street changes again. Landmark Coffee Roasters operates its original room at 404 E Redlands Blvd, in downtown Redlands proper. Its posted hours run 6am to 6pm Monday through Friday and 8am to 6pm on Saturdays, with no Sunday hours, which is worth knowing before a weekend visit.

Redlands Boulevard is the city's main historic drag, and a room on that street sits among the oldest commercial blocks in town rather than out on the edges. Landmark also has a second room, but that room sits in Yucaipa, a separate city to the east, at 35009 Yucaipa Blvd. Redlands Community News reported in July 2026 that Landmark first opened in Redlands and expanded to Yucaipa in December 2025. Downtown Redlands means Redlands Boulevard. Uptown Yucaipa means Yucaipa.

Landmark has also drawn local press. The Redlands Community News feature ran under the headline Landmark Roasters brews coffee, community and connection, and The Hobachi's roundup of the best downtown Redlands coffee shops describes the downtown room's rustic warehouse feel. Both pieces keep the story rooted on Redlands Boulevard, which is exactly where a careful guide should keep it.

Alabama Street's Industrial Pocket

Head east and the street name changes once more, this time into an industrial pocket. Amend & Revise Coffee Roasters is located at 310 Alabama St Suite E, a suite number that signals the kind of building it is: an industrial park unit, not a storefront on a shopping street.

Alabama Street is also where the city's one Dutch Bros stand sits, at 9853 Alabama St. That means a single Redlands street holds both an independent coffee business in an industrial suite and a national drive thru chain, two very different ways of selling coffee within the same corridor. Anyone searching coffee on Alabama Street Redlands should expect both kinds of results.

Nevada Street's Room

The fifth Redlands street worth naming is Nevada Street, home to Fireproof Coffee at 721 Nevada St Suite 203, with the 92373 ZIP code it shares with downtown and Alabama Street. Like the Alabama Street address, this is a suite address, which is a useful detail for a first visit: the room sits inside a multi unit building rather than facing the sidewalk as a standalone storefront.

Nevada Street rounds out the set of Redlands corridors worth knowing by name: Colton, Lugonia, Redlands Boulevard, Alabama, and Nevada. Five different streets, five different cafes, one city. None of them are interchangeable, and none of them belong to San Bernardino, which sits a short drive northwest with its own coffee identity.

Drive Thru Coffee in Both Cities

Independent cafes are not the only coffee on the ground here. Dutch Bros lists one location in Redlands, at 9853 Alabama St, and three in San Bernardino, at 4236 N Varsity Ave, 877 E Hospitality Ln, and 825 W 2nd St. San Bernardino, the larger city, carries three times the drive thru footprint of Redlands for that one chain.

Neither city appears on the 7 Brew or Scooter's Coffee location pages, so the national drive thru presence across both cities comes down to Dutch Bros alone. That is a useful baseline for any independent owner in either city, because it shows exactly which chain a local room shares the road with.

San Bernardino Is E Street

San Bernardino's coffee identity does not spread across five corridors the way Redlands' does. It centers on E Street, where Nine Eight Five Coffee operates at 985 S E St in downtown San Bernardino. The shop says the name comes from its building address, and it describes itself as a specialty coffee shop in San Bernardino. Its story page says it opened in 2022 and is open every day from 7am to 6pm.

E Street sits in the civic heart of the city. San Bernardino's own city hall address is 290 North D Street, one street over, which gives a sense of how central a downtown E Street room is to the city's working day. San Bernardino and Redlands are two separate cities in the Inland Empire, each with its own downtown, its own street grid, and its own coffee scene, and treating them as one blended region does a disservice to both.

San Bernardino is also, simply, a much larger city than Redlands, with 221,774 residents against Redlands' 72,985 in the 2023 survey. A bigger city whose independent coffee identity gathers on one downtown street tells a different story than a smaller city with five active corridors, and both stories are worth telling accurately rather than smoothing them into a single regional summary.

Two Cities, One Honest File

It would be easy for a piece like this to round Redlands and San Bernardino together into one loose Inland Empire coffee guide. That is exactly what this file refuses to do. Redlands' coffee geography runs through Colton Avenue, Lugonia Avenue, Redlands Boulevard, Alabama Street, and Nevada Street. San Bernardino's runs through E Street. Those are not interchangeable facts, and a reader or a shop owner deserves a source that keeps them straight.

The directory joe coffee shows the same split in its own numbers, listing 32 independent coffee shops for Redlands and 25 for San Bernardino. A smaller city with more listed independents than its larger neighbor is a real pattern worth noticing, and it matches the street by street picture above.

It is also worth saying plainly what this file is not. This is not Riverside, a separate city with its own downtown corridor and its own independent cafes that belong to its own story. And it is not Los Angeles, whose enormous coffee scene sits 60 miles to the west and far outside the scope of two Inland Empire cities describing their own streets.

Why the Street Names Actually Matter

Naming streets instead of just naming a city changes what a reader or an AI answer can do with the information. Coffee shop Redlands is a real search, but it is a broad one. Coffee shop Colton Avenue Redlands, or coffee shop Nevada Street Redlands, are much narrower searches, and narrower searches tend to reward pages that actually name the street rather than pages that only name the city.

That is the value of treating Redlands as five corridors instead of one downtown. A room on Alabama Street is better described as an Alabama Street coffee stop than just a Redlands one, because that is the more specific, more useful version of the truth. The same goes for Nine Eight Five in San Bernardino: E Street is the detail that anchors it, not the city name alone.

So here is the whole map in one line: Colton Avenue for Slow Bloom, Lugonia Avenue and Cypress Avenue for Wild Goose, Redlands Boulevard for Landmark's original location, Alabama Street for Amend & Revise, Nevada Street for Fireproof, and E Street for Nine Eight Five in San Bernardino. Six streets, six cafes, two honest cities.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative?

Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative is at 420 W Colton Ave in north Redlands, in the 92374 ZIP code. Its posted hours run 6am to 8pm, Monday through Sunday, which makes it one of the longer running daily schedules among the cafes in this piece. Colton Avenue is where this file's list of Redlands coffee streets begins, anchoring the north side of the city, distinct from the four other Redlands corridors named here.

Where are Wild Goose's two Redlands locations?

Wild Goose Coffee Roasters runs an espresso bar at 2351 W Lugonia Ave Suite J, open 7:30am to 4pm on weekdays and 9am to 1pm on Saturdays, and a cafe counter inside Gerrards Market at 705 W Cypress Ave, open daily from 6am to 4:30pm. Both sit in north Redlands, a short drive apart, and the company's own story begins in 2008.

Where is Landmark Coffee Roasters' downtown Redlands room?

Landmark Coffee Roasters' original room sits at 404 E Redlands Blvd in downtown Redlands, open 6am to 6pm on weekdays and 8am to 6pm on Saturdays, with no Sunday hours. Redlands Boulevard is the city's historic main corridor. Its second room, at 35009 Yucaipa Blvd, opened in December 2025 in the separate city of Yucaipa, according to Redlands Community News, and the two should never be treated as one address.

Where is Amend & Revise Coffee Roasters?

Amend & Revise Coffee Roasters is at 310 Alabama St Suite E in Redlands, an industrial park suite in the 92373 ZIP code rather than a retail storefront on a shopping street. Alabama Street also holds the city's only Dutch Bros stand, at 9853 Alabama St, so the corridor carries both an independent coffee business and a national drive thru chain within the same stretch of road.

Where is Fireproof Coffee?

Fireproof Coffee is at 721 Nevada St Suite 203 in Redlands, ZIP code 92373. The suite number tells a first time visitor that the room sits inside a multi unit building rather than facing the street as a standalone storefront. Nevada Street is the fifth named corridor in this city's coffee geography, alongside Colton Avenue, Lugonia Avenue, Redlands Boulevard, and Alabama Street.

Where is Nine Eight Five Coffee, and is it Redlands or San Bernardino?

Nine Eight Five Coffee is at 985 S E St in downtown San Bernardino, not Redlands. The shop's own copy says the name comes from that building address, and its story page lists an opening year of 2022 and daily hours of 7am to 6pm. It is this post's San Bernardino anchor on E Street, one street over from city hall at 290 North D Street.

Is Landmark's Yucaipa room part of Redlands proper?

No. Landmark's second room is at 35009 Yucaipa Blvd, in the separate city of Yucaipa, east of Redlands. Redlands Community News reported in July 2026 that it opened in December 2025, after the company first opened on Redlands Boulevard. It is labeled here as its own place, distinct from the downtown room at 404 E Redlands Blvd, and it is not part of Los Angeles either.

Is this post the same as Hillcane's Riverside post?

No. Riverside is a separate city of 316,241 people in the 2023 survey, with its own downtown coffee corridor and its own independent cafes, covered in its own file. This piece covers only Redlands, spread across Colton, Lugonia, Redlands Boulevard, Alabama, and Nevada, and San Bernardino, centered on E Street, without borrowing any business or street from Riverside's reporting.

How many Dutch Bros locations are in Redlands and San Bernardino?

Dutch Bros lists one Redlands location, at 9853 Alabama St, and three San Bernardino locations, at 4236 N Varsity Ave, 877 E Hospitality Ln, and 825 W 2nd St. Neither city appears on the 7 Brew or Scooter's Coffee location pages, so Dutch Bros makes up the entire national drive thru footprint across both cities for those three brands.

Does Redlands coffee have one central downtown, the way many small cities do?

Not exactly. Redlands has a historic downtown core along Redlands Boulevard, but its coffee shops spread across five corridors, Colton Avenue, Lugonia Avenue, Redlands Boulevard, Alabama Street, and Nevada Street, and across two ZIP codes, 92373 and 92374. The joe coffee directory lists 32 independent coffee shops for the city of 72,985 people, which is a lot of cafes for one downtown to hold.

Why does naming the exact street matter instead of just naming the city?

A street level description is more useful and more searchable than a citywide one. Coffee shop Nevada Street Redlands or coffee shop E Street San Bernardino are narrower searches than coffee shop Redlands alone, and pages that name the actual street serve that specificity better. With six cafes spread over six streets and two cities of 72,985 and 221,774 people, the street is often the fact a reader actually needs.

Work with Hillcane

Redlands coffee is not one downtown. It is five streets: Colton, Lugonia, Redlands Boulevard, Alabama, and Nevada. San Bernardino coffee is one street: E Street.

If your Redlands or San Bernardino coffee shop wants its own street named clearly online instead of blended into a vague regional guide, reach Hillcane at hillcane.co/contact or call (256) 384-2449.