Guilder Coffee Company - Cully Neighborhood (Formerly Junior's Roasted Coffee)

Coffee in the morning, beer at night, tacos all day. Guilder Coffee Company occupies a repurposed gas station in Portland's Cully neighborhood (the place used to be Junior's Roasted Coffee, in case you knew it by that name) and pulls a triple shift: cafe by day, brewery by evening, with Ninos taco truck and other food trucks parked on the property the whole time.

The space is the draw. Cool blue interior, jazzy vibes, huge windows for staring at rain, and outdoor seating with covered and heated patios plus picnic tables. The kind of place you go intending to stay an hour and leave three hours later because somebody brought a beer to your table and you started taking notes from your laptop into a notebook.

The honey lavender latte is the house signature. The seasonal lattes are strong, including a pumpkin spice locals openly call the best in PDX. The oat milk latte got described as the best of one regular's life, which sounds like hyperbole until you order it. Lavender syrup turns up across the menu and earns its place. Pair any of it with a taco from Ninos out front.

On-site roasting, a taproom-cafe hybrid that genuinely works as both, and outdoor space that suits dog owners and laptop sessions equally. The covered and heated patios mean the Portland weather doesn't shut the experience down for half the year, which is the rare gas-station conversion that's been thought through.

The catch: a few recent visits have reported rudeness from staff, and some neighborhood regulars who used to come weekly have drifted away because of it. The Cully crowd notices when service shifts. If you catch a good shift, this place is one of the more interesting hybrids in Portland. If you don't, it's a reminder that the building can only carry so much.