"After a decades-long love affair with coffee, Brendan Doherty started roasting beans at home. He started with local delivery, and eventually opened up shop on Webster Street. Signal roasts single origin, thoughtful blends, and even custom white-label roasting. For those visiting with an appetite, Signal Coffee also carries Model Bakery English muffin sandwiches and the wildly popular Boichik Bagels, a business that also got its start in an Alameda home kitchen. Signal now has four locations in the East Bay, including a second location on Alameda’s East End, but the Webster street garden spot is the original." - Meleyna Nomura