The Coffee Scene in San Diego

     I haven't been here with an update in over a month, and I sincerely apologize for that.This weekend and with great sadness, I packed up and moved from my home in Portland, Oregon, to San Diego, California.  Portland is an incredible city that I'll always visit, and always miss.  I drove Highway 101 down the coast of Oregon, and much of the infamous Highway 1 down the coast of California.  After San Francisco, I had to (literally) switch gears and move back onto the beaten path so that I got to San Diego before the weekend ended.[ad#Google Adsense - use me]This past Monday was painful.  I took over the lease for my new home, but it would be a day before my coffee gear would be delivered.  After everything was delivered (today), I had a pound of Caribou Coffee that I bought in Minnesota last week, and that I was ready to brew.And in the handful of days that I've been here, I can't get a handle on the coffee scene.  I don't put all my stock on Twitter , but I did shout out three separate times to the Twitter universe to let me know where in the city I could get the best and most attentively roasted bulk coffee.  Three times, nothing back.  Even after a friend coached me on how to use hashtags better in my tweets. #dumb     Yelp told me that there was a coffee cart downtown with perfect ratings, that was a quick walk from my place.  Here was the exchange between myself and the cart's owner and operator when I found her.Me: "Medium brewed coffee, please."Her: "Would you like some half and half in there, hon?"Me: "No thank you.  I'll take it black,"Her (a little baffled): "Are you sure?"Me: "It's good coffee, isn't, it?"Her: "It is, but I just don't get that much."All of this to repeat that I don't quite have a handle on the city's coffee scene yet, but my early guess is that I will have much more difficulty getting a good cup here than I did in Portland, with a roaster on every block.There are two roasters here that I know.  West Bean, who only wholesales their coffee, and  has no retail store.  Bird Rock, who won Roast Magazine's 2012 micro roaster of the year.  Coincidentally, I just met with Roast's 2012 macro roaster of the year, Portland Roasting Coffee.Read: Profile Portland Roasting CoffeeRead: Profile Roast MagazineNext stop, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters.  People of San Diego (I mean, #SanDiego), let me know where I need to go!