Phin Smith Express

Since 2018, Garden Grove’s Phin Smith has firmly established itself as one of Orange County’s best coffee shops – obsessive over quality to the point where they’ll gladly remake any unsatisfactory beverage, a guarantee we’ve never needed to test over numerous visits. In 2025, the business expanded into a second and surprisingly nearby space by opening two conceptually separate establishments: Phin Smith Express and DZO Brewing Company. Despite their similar names, Phin Smith and Phin Smith Express offer decidedly different experiences during breakfast and lunch hours, while DZO Brewing is a lunch and dinner restaurant with a very heavy emphasis on beers. We’ve covered DZO’s drink and food options in a separate article.

While Phin Smith pitches Express as a way to skip the original shop’s long lines for a more streamlined grab-and-go experience – and that’s true – their menus only lightly overlap. On our visit, Express was offering a total of three coffee drinks (Ca Phe Sua Da, Tres Leches, and Espresso Tonic), three tea drinks (Lychee Breeze, Taiwanese Jasmine, and Summer Peach), a range of bottled fruit juices, acai bowls, banh mi sandwiches, and pastries ranging from pate chaud to croissants.