Getting Your Buzz at the Hive Café

[Girls That Roam]

by Heather Cassell

In search of a great cup of coffee, Bree Dezort and Cali Kamala got tired of having to leave their home in the Diamond District just for their caffeine fix, so the couple dreamed up the Hive Cafe.

“This is our neighborhood, but there wasn’t anything that was good quality coffee so we always left,” says Bree, 32, whose fiancé Cali, has lived five minutes from the café for more than three years with her son.

About two years ago soon after the couple got together, Bree and her daughter joined Cali and her son leaving foggy San Francisco behind for sunny Oakland. The couple’s children are both 7 years old and love the café, says Bree, who showed GirlsThatRoam.com a video the kids made welcoming people to the Hive Café (2139 MacArthur Boulevard, 510-482-4483, [e-mail], Hive-Café.com).

“Finally, we just looked at ourselves one day and said, ‘Why? Why not here?’ Nine months later we opened,” says Bree.

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