Housed in the 1888 Santa Fe Railroad depot in Encinitas's Leucadia, Pannikin Coffee & Tea operates a basement roastery and full breakfast-and-lunch kitchen inside one of Encinitas's oldest surviving redwood Victorian structures on North Coast Highway 101. The building was purchased from the Santa Fe Railway in the 1970s and relocated to its current site, making it a natural rest stop for the cycling community served by Leucadia Cyclery down the road. In-house roasting happens on a legacy drum roaster in the lower level, processing single-origin organic beans in small batches that cycle through a cooling tray integrated into the building's original freight-station infrastructure. An upper-level wraparound porch and ground-floor patio accommodate the weekend brunch surge near the Leucadia Farmers Market, and the building's artistic heritage lives on through neighbors like the Off Track Gallery, which once exhibited regional artwork in Pannikin's own basement before relocating. The roasting operation uses a drum-style roaster capable of handling five-pound batches, hand-monitored by sight and smell in a tradition dating to the shop's earliest years under the shop's original ownership.