Dark Horse Coffee Roasters in Chula Vista's Third Avenue Village is a direct-trade specialty roaster founded in San Diego's Normal Heights neighborhood in 2013 by brothers Bryan and Daniel Charlson. The Chula Vista outpost occupies the THIRDandF mixed-use development at Third Avenue and F Street, anchoring a walkable block of independent storefronts that includes SweetLife on 3rd and its scratch-made pastry counter. All eight Dark Horse locations source green coffee through direct-trade partnerships with smallholder farmers across Latin America and Africa, then roast in-house on a Loring S35 Kestrel at the brand's central production facility. The Chula Vista menu spans espresso, French press, pour-over, and nitro cold brew alongside rotating vegan doughnuts, pan dulce, and bagel breakfast sandwiches that cater to the Chula Vista breakfast and Chula Vista coffee shops crowd. That full-service cafe program fuels a morning remote-work scene along the same Third Avenue Village stretch that houses live theater at On Stage Playhouse and several gallery storefronts. The Loring S35 Kestrel drum roaster processes small-batch green beans at temperatures between 385°F and 430°F, producing the single-origin and seasonal-blend profiles distributed to all eight Dark Horse retail counters and the brand's wholesale restaurant accounts across the San Diego market.