Singing Sun Coffee Holds East Main. Simones Has Poured in Ventura Since 1996.

Jacob Mishalanie

Oct 7

11 min read

Spanish style historic building with red tile roof and palms on East Main Street, Ventura

Photo: Cbl62, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

East Main Street runs through Ventura's Midtown, a different stretch of the city from downtown's own Main Street blocks, and Singing Sun Coffee holds that stretch at 1930 East Main Street, open every day from 7 am to 5 pm. A short drive away, Simones Coffee and Tea has served Ventura since October 1996, which its own about page describes as making it the city's oldest independent coffeehouse, and it now runs two separate locations across town.

This is an account of both businesses as they actually operate: Singing Sun's East Main address, daily hours and press mention, and Simones' history, its two locations and the different schedules each location keeps. Two Ventura coffee stories, told plainly and kept clearly distinct from each other.

One is a steady daily presence on a specific Midtown street. The other is a coffeehouse with close to thirty years behind it, spread across two locations in two separate parts of the city. Both deserve to be told with their own specific facts, not folded together simply because both sit east of downtown in a city of 109,900 people.

Singing Sun on East Main

Singing Sun Coffee sits at 1930 East Main Street, in the Midtown stretch of Ventura where Main Street becomes East Main further from downtown. That distinction, East Main versus downtown Main, matters for anyone actually trying to find the cafe, since the two are genuinely different blocks in different parts of the city. A visitor relying on a vague Main Street reference alone could easily end up downtown, well west of where Singing Sun is.

Singing Sun is open every day, a consistent daily schedule from 7 am to 5 pm according to its own live homepage. That reliability gives Midtown Ventura residents and visitors a dependable stop, open the same hours whether it is a weekday morning or a weekend afternoon.

The cafe earned a mention in Sprudge's September 10, 2026 guide to coffee in Ventura, a genuine marker of outside recognition for a Midtown cafe that might otherwise be overshadowed by more heavily covered downtown addresses.

That Sprudge chose to include a Midtown address alongside downtown names in its coverage says something about how it approached Ventura's coffee scene as a whole, looking beyond the most obvious downtown strip to include a cafe serving a different part of the city entirely. A press outlet willing to travel outside the most photogenic downtown blocks to cover a Midtown cafe is doing a more complete job of representing the city's actual coffee scene.

For anyone living or working in Midtown Ventura, Singing Sun's East Main address offers something downtown cafes cannot: proximity. A daily 7 am to 5 pm schedule means a Midtown resident does not need to drive downtown just to find a reliable cup of coffee close to home.

Ventura's Oldest Independent Coffeehouse

Simones Coffee and Tea opened in October 1996, and according to its own live about page, it holds the distinction of being the oldest independent coffeehouse in Ventura. That is a genuinely significant claim, three decades of continuous operation in a city where storefronts turn over regularly. October 1996 as a specific founding date is the kind of detail that gives this claim real weight, rather than a vague reference to being around for a while.

Three decades is a long time for any independent business to remain open, let alone a coffeehouse competing against newer arrivals and shifting consumer habits across that entire span. Simones' longevity places it in a different category entirely from a newer cafe still building its own reputation.

That kind of history gives Simones a particular kind of standing in Ventura. Longtime residents have likely watched their own children grow up visiting the same coffeehouse they did, a rare kind of continuity for any small local business to sustain across close to thirty years.

Think about what October 1996 represents for a business still operating today. Simones opened before smartphones, before online ordering, before most of the technology that now shapes how people find and visit a local cafe. It has adapted across all of that change while keeping its core identity as an independent Ventura coffeehouse intact.

Covered by Ventura's Own Food and Travel Press

Both of Simones' street addresses, 7818 Telegraph Rd and 2848 Cabrillo Drive, appear in coverage from Edible Ventura County, the regional food magazine, and from Visit Ventura, the city's tourism bureau. Being written up by the county's food press and by the tourism office is a steady kind of recognition, the sort that comes from years of being a known local stop rather than from a single viral moment.

Singing Sun, for its part, appears in Visit Ventura's business listings and in Sprudge's September 2026 guide, which also named downtown stops such as Palm and Boy Coffee and Acai in the El Jardin Courtyard. For a Midtown cafe, sharing a guide with downtown names is a sign that the city's coffee press reads Ventura as more than one strip.

That press record matters to readers because it is independent. A visitor who finds Simones or Singing Sun through Edible Ventura County, Visit Ventura or Sprudge is hearing about them from outlets that choose what to cover, not from the cafes' own advertising, and the addresses and details in those outlets line up with what each business posts about itself.

Two Rooms: Telegraph and Cabrillo

Simones operates two separate locations in Ventura, one at 7818 Telegraph Rd in East Ventura and one at 2848 Cabrillo Drive near Midtown and Community Memorial. Both addresses come from Edible Ventura County and Visit Ventura coverage, and both deserve to be told apart rather than treated as a single citywide presence.

The Telegraph room keeps daily hours, open from 6:30 am to 5:30 pm every day except Christmas, according to Simones' own live about page. The Cabrillo room, by contrast, operates on a weekdays only schedule, a different rhythm from its Telegraph counterpart.

That difference in schedule between the two locations is worth knowing specifically. A visitor hoping to stop by the Cabrillo Drive location on a Saturday, expecting the same daily hours as Telegraph, would find it is simply not open that day, while Telegraph would still be serving customers as usual.

The Telegraph room's near year round schedule, closed only on Christmas, reflects a cafe built to be a dependable, everyday fixture for its own corner of East Ventura. Very few closures across an entire calendar year is a meaningful commitment for any small business to maintain, and it says something about how central this room has become to its own neighborhood's daily routine.

Two Different Ventura Neighborhoods

Telegraph Road and Cabrillo Drive sit in different parts of Ventura, East Ventura and the area near Community Memorial respectively. A regular Simones customer loyal to one room is not necessarily close to the other, and the business itself reflects that reality by keeping each room's own distinct hours rather than forcing an identical schedule onto both. That is a small but real acknowledgment that Ventura is not one uniform city, but a set of different neighborhoods with different daily rhythms.

This two room structure means Simones serves two separate pockets of Ventura at once, each with its own local customer base, while still carrying one shared name and one shared history stretching back to October 1996.

Running two separate locations is a meaningfully more complex operation than running one, requiring staffing, supply and consistency across two physical locations. That Simones has sustained two locations alongside close to thirty years in business speaks to real operational strength behind the name.

A regular who only ever visits the Telegraph Road location may not even realize a second Simones location exists on Cabrillo Drive, and the reverse is just as true for a Cabrillo regular. Both locations carry the same name and the same history, even while serving largely separate, geographically distinct sets of everyday customers. Telling both locations apart clearly respects the reality that each has built its own local following over the years.

Planning a Morning Across Midtown and East Ventura

The three cafes in this story keep hours that overlap neatly. Singing Sun opens at 7 am and closes at 5 pm every day. Simones' Telegraph location opens earlier, at 6:30 am, and stays open until 5:30 pm, every day of the year except Christmas. Simones' Cabrillo location keeps the same 6:30 am to 5:30 pm window, but only Monday through Friday, and it is closed on weekends.

For a weekday visitor, that means all three are open from 7 am to 5 pm, and any combination works. For a weekend visitor, the plan changes: Singing Sun on East Main and Simones on Telegraph are both open, while the Cabrillo Drive location is not. Checking the day before driving over saves a wasted trip.

Geography helps too. East Main in Midtown and Cabrillo Drive near Community Memorial sit in the middle of the city, while Telegraph Road runs out through East Ventura. Downtown's independent addresses, Palm and Boy at 451 E Main St, unit 8, Cajé at 71 N Palm St and Prospect at 92 S. Laurel Street, sit further west, and Room Service Coffee is at 1155 E Thompson Blvd, unit 101. Ventura's coffee map is spread out, and these three cafes cover its middle and east.

Two Businesses Worth Knowing Apart

It would be easy for a casual list of Ventura coffee spots to blend Singing Sun and Simones together, both east of downtown, both independently run. Doing so would lose exactly the detail that makes each one worth knowing: Singing Sun's specific East Main address and daily rhythm, Simones' October 1996 opening and its two distinct locations.

Keeping the two apart, in name and in detail, respects what each business has built. Singing Sun has built a dependable daily presence on a specific Midtown street. Simones has built something else entirely, close to thirty years of history now expressed across two separate Ventura addresses.

Two Real Ventura Coffee Stories

Singing Sun Coffee and Simones Coffee and Tea are two distinct Ventura coffee stories, and neither should be collapsed into the other simply because both sit in the same general part of town. Singing Sun holds East Main Street with daily hours and a Sprudge mention. Simones holds close to thirty years of history across two separate locations, Telegraph and Cabrillo.

Both businesses deserve to be told with their own specific, accurate details, their own addresses, their own hours, their own history, rather than folded together into one vague account of Midtown or East Ventura coffee. One is a daily fixture on a single street. The other is a longtime Ventura institution now operating across two, each earning its own place in how Ventura talks about its coffee scene.

If your own Ventura cafe has a history like Simones' or a steady daily presence like Singing Sun's, worth telling with this kind of specific, accurate detail, Hillcane can help build that page. Reach out at hillcane.co/contact or call (256) 384-2449.

Two businesses, two real stories, both worth remembering by their own specific addresses and their own specific histories rather than as interchangeable names on a generic Ventura coffee list.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Singing Sun Coffee located?

Singing Sun Coffee is at 1930 East Main Street in Ventura's Midtown, a different stretch of the city from downtown's Main Street blocks. A visitor relying only on a Main Street reference could end up downtown near the El Jardin Courtyard instead, so it helps to set the East Main address directly. The cafe is open every day from 7 am to 5 pm.

What are Singing Sun's posted hours?

Singing Sun posts hours of 7 am to 5 pm every day of the week on its own homepage. There is no separate weekend schedule, so a Saturday or Sunday visit to 1930 East Main Street follows the same window as a weekday one. That makes it an easy Midtown stop to plan for a morning or early afternoon.

Where are Simones Coffee and Tea's two locations?

Simones runs two locations in Ventura. One is at 7818 Telegraph Rd in East Ventura, and the other is at 2848 Cabrillo Drive in Midtown, near Community Memorial Hospital. Both addresses appear in coverage from Edible Ventura County and Visit Ventura. The locations keep different schedules, so it is worth knowing which one you are heading to before you go.

How old is Simones?

Simones opened in October 1996, and its own about page describes it as the oldest independent coffeehouse in Ventura. That puts it at close to thirty years in business as of 2026, long enough to have opened before smartphones and online ordering. Over that time it has grown to two locations, on Telegraph Road and on Cabrillo Drive.

What are Simones' hours at each room?

The Telegraph room at 7818 Telegraph Rd is open daily from 6:30 am to 5:30 pm, every day except Christmas. The Cabrillo room at 2848 Cabrillo Drive keeps the same 6:30 am to 5:30 pm hours on weekdays only and is closed on Saturday and Sunday. Weekend visitors should plan on Telegraph, out in East Ventura, where the doors open at 6:30 am.

Did Sprudge name Singing Sun in its Ventura coverage?

Yes. Sprudge, the specialty coffee publication, named Singing Sun in its guide to coffee in Ventura, published September 10, 2026. The same guide named downtown stops such as Palm and Boy Coffee and Acai, which makes Singing Sun's inclusion a sign that the guide covered Midtown's East Main stretch as well as downtown's blocks near Palm Street.

Which press outlets have covered Simones?

Simones appears in coverage from Edible Ventura County, the regional food magazine, and from Visit Ventura, the city's tourism bureau, which both list its Telegraph and Cabrillo addresses. Those outlets choose what they write about, so the coverage reflects the coffeehouse's standing since October 1996 rather than its own advertising, and the details match what Simones posts itself.

Is Simones a chain?

No. Simones is an independent Ventura coffeehouse, and its own about page calls it the oldest independent coffeehouse in the city, open since October 1996. It has two locations, both in Ventura: 7818 Telegraph Rd and 2848 Cabrillo Drive. It has no locations outside the city, which is part of why the Ventura name sits so close to its identity.

Are Singing Sun and Simones the same business?

No. They are two separate, independent Ventura coffee businesses. Singing Sun is a single shop at 1930 East Main Street, open 7 am to 5 pm daily. Simones runs two locations, 7818 Telegraph Rd and 2848 Cabrillo Drive, and has served Ventura since October 1996. They share a part of town, not a name or an owner.

Which of these cafes are open on weekends?

On Saturday and Sunday, Singing Sun at 1930 East Main Street is open from 7 am to 5 pm, and Simones' Telegraph room at 7818 Telegraph Rd is open from 6:30 am to 5:30 pm. Simones' Cabrillo room at 2848 Cabrillo Drive is closed on weekends, so a weekend plan should route through East Main or Telegraph.

Work with Hillcane

Singing Sun is open every day on East Main Street. A short drive away, Simones has served Ventura since October 1996 as the city's oldest independent coffeehouse.

If your Ventura cafe has a real history worth telling this way, reach Hillcane at hillcane.co/contact or call (256) 384-2449.