About

Opened as a cafe in the front of a pair media arts and robotics companies, FRONT supplied a wild and friendly blend of designers, coders, engineers, artists, writers and a host of beautiful lost creative and production types. Over the course of a few years, the coffee got good, really good, the friends closer, the machines more impressive and the stories fabled.

But then the big rollup door shuttered and all the fun was swept away to be reborn in a new space, with a new plan and revised hopes. FRONT served as a social hub yet again but this time for a maker space. When the pandemic refused to allow all those we loved enter the space, we hammered open a window on the street and invited other friends to serve up some coffee.

Eventually those friends moved on and FRONT added the best pandemic style parklet in the city and for another couple of tentative years, really good coffee served the community of makers as well as the neighborhood.

Always seeking new spaces and concepts for our social experimentation, FRONT now occupies a tiny private cafe at 620 TREAT AVE which is yet again a collection of artists, machinists and sometimes a poet or a bass player.

FRONT continues to bring people together under a grand social experiment that welcomes art and tech, young and those less young.