San Francisco runs on good coffee, and for one weekend in November the whole scene gathers under a single roof on the northern waterfront. On Saturday and Sunday, November 7-8, 2026, the San Francisco Coffee Festival returns to the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason - and this year marks its tenth.
A decade in, the festival has become a fixture of the city’s coffee calendar. Hosted at the arts nonprofit Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, it brings the Bay Area’s top specialty roasters and coffee shops together for a weekend of tastings, conversation, and live music. It’s a celebration of local coffee culture as much as a chance to drink a lot of very good coffee.
What to Expect at the Festival
The heart of it is the tasting: curated roasters and exhibitors pour their beans and walk you through their flavor profiles, all in one lively hall. Between cups, the “Coffee Convos” panels bring Bay Area coffee figures on stage to talk shop, while local bands keep the room moving. It’s social, unhurried, and built for coffee lovers and their friends.
A few practicals: tickets are required and capacity is limited, with single-session and all-day passes spread across both days - so it’s worth booking ahead and picking your time. Parking around Fort Mason fills up quickly, so transit or a rideshare is the easy call, and the waterfront setting makes for a flat, scenic walk in.
There’s a reason an event like this feels so at home here. Across San Francisco’s neighborhoods, the local café is a cornerstone of daily life - where you run into neighbors, start the morning, and settle in to work. A weekend built around that ritual, with the bay just outside the pavilion doors, shows off the Marina and the wider city at their most welcoming.
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Festival Pavilion, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
When: Saturday-Sunday, November 7-8, 2026 (multiple sessions across both days)
Learn More: San Francisco Coffee Festival
Sources: sfcoffeefestival.com
