Operated by the Brigantine restaurant group, Portside Coffee and Gelato in Point Loma, San Diego runs a walk-up café and house-churned gelato counter on Shelter Island Drive overlooking the marina basin. The gelato is made on-site in rotating flavors—pistachio, dark chocolate, mint chip, and seasonal pumpkin spice among them—alongside a full espresso bar and cold-brew program that pull a morning crowd from the hotels and marinas lining Shelter Island, including guests walking from nearby Coronado Coffee Company - Point Loma. A breakfast menu of burritos, croissant sandwiches, smoked-salmon lox bagels, and organic-yogurt parfaits extends the café beyond a dessert-only concept into a full morning-meal stop on the Point Loma San Diego waterfront. The dogs-welcome policy permits leashed pets both inside and on the patio, a dual-access format rare on the Shelter Island strip and among peninsula dessert counters such as The Craft Creamery. Off-menu affogato builds—house-churned gelato drowned in a fresh espresso pull—represent the counter's most technique-intensive single-serve order.