Hijau Coffee marked its grand opening on Saturday Sep 5 in San Jose, turning a former Starbucks space in Midtown into what the shop describes as Silicon Valley’s first Indonesian coffee shop. The café now serves Indonesian-origin beans and Indonesian-inspired drinks from 1432 W San Carlos St Suite 70, giving the neighborhood a new specialty coffee stop with a distinctly Indonesian identity.
For Lisa Maria, the opening was the end of a long climb that began at farmers market pop-ups. She said Hijau Coffee grew with community support, and the new shop reflects that path in more ways than one. The store pours Sumatra Takengon and Bali Kintamani, and also serves a pandan latte, while imported furnishings, custom batik tiles and handmade ceramics give the room a look that feels assembled with care rather than bought off a shelf.
The timing matters because this is not just another café opening in San Jose; it places an Indonesian coffee concept inside one of the Bay Area’s busiest corridors at a moment when specialty coffee keeps leaning harder into origin stories. Lisa said the menu and the design were built to carry that idea through the room, from a custom green La Marzocco Strada three-group machine to for-here cups and reusable water cups that fit the shop’s slower, more considered pace.
There is still one claim that hangs over the opening: Hijau Coffee describes itself as Silicon Valley’s first Indonesian coffee shop, but the comparison behind that label is not laid out. What is clear today is narrower and easier to measure. A shop that began as a farmers market pop-up is now a permanent address in San Jose, and the next chapter will be whether the crowd that found it on Saturdays keeps coming back to Midtown.
