Purple craze

Broadacre Coffee’s lavender latte

In a coffee scene that seems to have reached a saturation point, Broadacre Coffee has quickly distinguished itself with specialty coffee drinks. Its lavender latte is, arguably, the cafe’s most popular. Co-owner Andrew Lopez says they make the lavender syrup in-house by extracting the flavor with grain alcohol and mixing it with simple syrup. The resulting cup is rich and lightly sweet with a faint floral flavor. The flower somehow manages to intensify the chocolate note in the espresso—currently Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ Finca El Injerto from Guatemala. If this cup of coffee is not quite your cup of tea, Broadacre will soon introduce five new specialty drinks for summer, so stay tuned. 1014 10th Street, (916) 442-1085, http://broadacre.com.