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The Guide Oregon Portland Upper Left Roasters
Portland, Oregon · Entry No. 213

Upper Left Roasters

Independent roastery at 1204 SE Clay St, Portland — one of 64 shops in the Portland guide.

The record

At a glance

Shop type Roastery Independent
Address 1204 SE Clay St, Portland, OR 97214 The “SE” prefix places it in Portland’s Southeast quadrant.
Quadrant Southeast Portland
Phone (503) 477-8469
Website On file — shown on upgraded listings. Upgrade this listing to make it clickable.
Hours Weekdays 7am-4pm, Weekends 8am-4pm
Locations 2 in Portland — 1204 SE Clay St & 555 SW Morrison St
From the field notes

The shop, on the record

Upper Left Roasters keeps its counter on SE Clay St in Southeast Portland — one of 22 of the guide’s 64 Portland entries filed under the “SE” prefix. It made the index the only way anything does: an independent roastery, checked by hand, with no chain behind it.

The name is on two doors: this one, and a second at 555 SW Morrison St, across town in Southwest Portland. A second location is about the loudest endorsement an independent shop can earn.

The record here is unusually complete: a phone that rings the shop, confirmed hours, and a website on file. Every line of it confirmed by a person, not a scraper.

For company on the same side of the river: Albina Press on SE Hawthorne Blvd and Carnelian Coffee on SE Foster Rd — or walk the full Portland index, 64 entries deep.

Everything above is drawn from the verified record — nothing padded, nothing guessed.
Reading the address

Portland addresses carry their quadrant. 1204 SE Clay St sits in the Southeast quadrant — 22 of the 64 Portland entries in this guide share the “SE” prefix.

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Filed under · Portland, Oregon

From the Portland index

All 64 →
Abba Coffee Roasters Roastery · 525 NW 11th Ave
Albina Press Coffee Shop · 4637 N Albina Ave
Albina Press Coffee Shop · 5012 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Barista Coffee Shop · 823 NW 23rd Ave
Barista Coffee Shop · 539 NW 13th Ave
Barista Coffee Shop · 1725 NE Alberta St
Barista Coffee Shop · 529 SW 3rd Ave
Bastion Coffee Roasters Roastery · 4326 N Mississippi Ave
Café Zamora (Zamora Coffee) Coffee Shop · 3602 SE Powell Blvd
Capitola Coffee Coffee Shop · 4224 N Mississippi Ave #101
Keep walking

The Portland guide runs 64 shops deep.

30 coffee shops, 25 roasteries, and 9 cafés — every one independently owned, every one checked by hand.

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