Who Runs Blue Bottle Coffee Company Now? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Oakland, California
Current status
As of October 2026, Wikipedia reports Blue Bottle Coffee Company changed ownership; reviewed by our team, not yet independently confirmed.
What the source shows: Wikipedia, revised 2026-09-03, reports Centurium Capital's 2026 acquisition of Blue Bottle's global retail operations from Nestle. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 3, Episode 13
- Address 480 9th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
- Website bluebottlecoffee.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
The episode featured Blue Bottle Coffee's single-origin, pour-over-style preparation, the method that helped build the company's reputation as a leader of the third-wave coffee movement. Blue Bottle was once headquartered in Oakland, California, and the 480 9th Street cafe sits in the Old Oakland district, according to OpenStreetMap listing data. According to a Wikipedia article on Blue Bottle Coffee, revised 2026-09-03, Nestle acquired a 68% stake in the company in 2017, and in 2026 Centurium Capital acquired Blue Bottle's global retail operations from Nestle for approximately $400 million. An automated check of the company's website on 2026-09-08 returned an HTTP 403 error rather than page content, so this specific cafe's continued operation could not be independently confirmed beyond the 2026 ownership-change reporting.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bottle_Coffee
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Record btiea-0293 · checked by Cal Marchetti.