Camellia Coffee Roasters opens new cafe in downtown Davis
Camellia Coffee Roasters has taken over Peet’s old E Street cafe in downtown Davis, opening its second shop with espresso, pastries and breakfast sandwiches.
Camellia Coffee Roasters has moved into one of downtown Davis’s most visible coffee corners, opening its second cafe in the former Peet’s Coffee space at 231 E St. The shop opened July 13 as a soft opening and is serving daily from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
That schedule puts Camellia squarely in the daytime rhythm of downtown Davis, with enough overlap for the morning rush and the late-afternoon coffee crowd, even if it does not match the longer hours Peet’s once used at the same address. Peet’s had kept the E Street store open from 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, a format built for early risers, commuters and steady foot traffic through the day.
The opening adds another independent option to a corridor that has long been tied to repeat visits and regular coffee traffic. Camellia is not testing a new concept from scratch. Owners Rob Watson and Ryan Harden founded the company in 2016, opened the original cafe at 1200 R St., Suite 120 in downtown Sacramento, and have also built out a private production space off Broad. The Davis shop extends that footprint into a city where campus-linked and downtown foot traffic can support a strong everyday coffee trade.
The menu in Davis is built around the kind of offerings that fit a morning-to-lunch crowd: espresso drinks, pastries and breakfast sandwiches. That gives Camellia a different playbook than the chain it replaced, with a more local identity in a storefront that downtown Davis customers already know well.
For Camellia, taking over a former Peet’s location is a clear bet that the street still draws enough daily coffee demand to support an independent roaster. For downtown Davis, it keeps a prime E Street address in active use, now under a local brand that is trying to turn a familiar chain footprint into a stronger foothold of its own.
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