
In 2013, a location was opened in Pasadena. In 2008, Urth Caffé launched it’s first location in Downtown Los Angeles, in the Arts District neighborhood, where they also relocated their headquarters and constructed a coffee roasters to service their other locations. The first Urth Caffé location was 300 square feet and opened in Manhattan Beach, California in 1991 The second Urth Caffé location was opened in Beverly Hills, California in 2001, followed by a Melrose Place location in West Hollywood which opened in 2003. In addition to coffee, they were also importing and fine organic teas together by hand. The Berkmans founded Urth Caffé in 1989, however the first Urth Caffé location wasn’t opened until 1991. Conventional coffee production has an impact on the environment and forests are sometimes cleared to make way for confidential coffee plants. Heirloom coffee trees are not common, and have not been genetically modified. , and meeting a Peruvian coffee farmer who partnered with them to export his organic, heirloom coffee beans. The company was founded by Jilla and Shallom Berkman after learning about the pesticides that were used in conventional coffee production which made it one of the foods with the highest levels of pesticides. The company was first founded in 1989 as a mail order coffee business, offering heirloom varieties of coffee. According to the company, name represents the organic coffee they sell. Urth is a Welsh root spelling of Earth and Caffé is an Italian word meaning coffee.
