Scrimshaw Coffee in College Area, San Diego runs an all-day cafe and in-house roastery at 5542 El Cajon Boulevard, producing espresso, natural wine, and craft beer under a single roof in the 92115 ZIP. Co-founders Will Remsbottom and Roger Chagnon named the shop after the art of whale-bone carving — the word scrimshaw means to waste time together — and the tagline is painted on the wall above the espresso bar. The roasting program processes its own blends on-site, including the current Loud and Clear Blend built on Nansebo Solena and Magdelena Select green coffees, and retail bags are sold for home brewing. El Cajon Boulevard's coffee-near-SDSU corridor puts Scrimshaw two blocks from campus foot traffic, and the wood-fired pizza program at Dang Brother Pizza Company on Mission Gorge Place draws from the same post-study dinner circuit. Cappuccinos, cortados, and twelve-ounce lattes anchor the espresso menu, and a housemade vanilla syrup sweetens the iced vanilla latte without the artificial edge of commercial syrups. The OG Brekkie Sando packs eggs, tots, bacon, cheese, and chipotle crema into a twelve-inch tortilla with house salsa, and weekend brunch runs from seven until sellout. Natural wine pours and craft-beer taps convert the cafe into an evening bar, and the small-plates menu shifts toward cheese boards and shareable bites after the breakfast rush clears. A soyrizo option swaps into the breakfast burrito for vegetarian orders, and the grocery run at Trader Joe's on College Avenue a mile south overlaps with the morning-coffee stop for San Carlos and Del Cerro commuters cutting through College Area. The gender-neutral restroom, dog-welcoming interior, and kid's menu give the space a broad demographic reach across the College Area and Rolando neighborhoods that flank this stretch of El Cajon Blvd.