Why S.F.'s Coolest Party Hosts Now Throw 9am Ragers Instead
A mix of neighborhood runs, one-day burrito collaborations, and Filipino-inspired cold brews highlight this new series of San Francisco-focused morning events.
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Why S.F.'s Coolest Party Hosts Now Throw 9am Ragers Instead
A mix of neighborhood runs, one-day burrito collaborations, and Filipino-inspired cold brews highlight this new series of San Francisco-focused morning events.
What happens when the children of San Francisco immigrants grow up to work in nightlife, and then, after hosting hella parties for celebrities like P-Lo and Aaron Kai, decide to stop drinking?
You get Morning Blend: a series of Saturday morning hangouts that feature group runs, specialty coffees, breakfast burrito collabs, live DJs, and hella community love that gets spread across Frisco’s kaleidoscopically diverse cafe scene.
Arthur Alcantar and Aaron Lau are behind it. As lifelong locals, the friends have done their part to cultivate and preserve a healthy ecosystem of Bay Area culture, having each been fixtures in the nightlife and entertainment circuits. As they’ve grown older, though, they realized that not everyone is built to attend rap shows at midnight — there’s a massive segment of Bay Area residents who wake up early, roll up their sleeves, and put in work. So why not create events for those folks, too?
"It’s trendy to get people together in a third space. Coffee, running clubs, the whole thing. But this isn’t about that. This is about our relationships in these communities for the past decade."