Identified as Asian-, Latino-, and women-owned, Public Square on La Mesa Boulevard operates as a specialty coffee roaster, concert venue, and community gathering point in La Mesa Village. The cafe roasts direct-trade beans sourced from single-origin farms and makes all flavoring syrups in-house, a craft-production model that shares event-hosting capacity with Brick + Laurel in the same La Mesa market. Co-founded by a La Mesa native, the space occupies a former coffee-shop storefront at 8278 La Mesa Boulevard, refitted with 1940s schoolhouse chairs, rotating art-gallery walls, and a performance platform for live music and open-mic programming. Homemade scones with cinnamon-vanilla butter, a pandan latte, and avocado toast on sourdough anchor a food menu built for the Village's morning and afternoon foot traffic, complementing the dinner-service Italian programs at Limoncello Modern Italian down the boulevard. The roasting program processes green beans through a profile-controlled drum roaster, calibrating time and temperature curves for each origin lot to preserve varietal character from Ethiopian florals to Sumatran earthy tones.