Portside Coffee & Gelato in downtown San Diego occupies a walk-up window on The Brigantine's Portside Pier, an over-water dining platform at 1360 North Harbor Drive along the Embarcadero near the USS Midway Museum. The espresso bar pours Café Moto — a San Diego-based micro-roaster — running a locally sourced coffee program alongside an artisan gelato case that includes dairy-free and gluten-free sorbets, an approach to dual-format dessert service that parallels what Bobboi Natural Gelato offers with its own espresso-and-gelato counter in Little Italy. Breakfast burritos, avocado bowls, and loaded egg sandwiches extend the menu beyond coffee and frozen desserts, making Portside a full morning stop for the waterfront hotel and convention crowd along Harbor Drive. The pier structure itself is a Port of San Diego redevelopment that debuted in July 2020, placing the coffee window alongside three other Brigantine concepts — including the seafood-focused main dining room directly above and TopSail on the upper deck. A second-floor public walkway and 108-seat viewing deck give non-diners free access to the panoramic bay views from the same over-water structure. The most complex drink on the menu is the affogato — a scoop of house dark-chocolate gelato drowned in a fresh double shot of Café Moto espresso, calibrated to balance roast bitterness against the frozen base's creaminess.