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Town OKs first-of-its-kind mobile coffee trailer for Point Tiburon Plaza

Owners Sam Cook and Juan Carlos Caamal expect to open Paradise Coffee by mid-March, offering daily service from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.

FRANCISCO MARTINEZ ARCHIVE / THE ARK 2025The Paradise Coffee trailer sits on the grass at Point Tiburon Plaza on Tiburon Boulevard in December. The Tiburon Planning Commission voted 3-0 Feb. 25 to approve a conditional use permit for the coffee cart, which owners Sam Cook and Juan Carlos Caamal hope to open by mid-March.
Francisco Martinez
By FRANCISCO MARTINEZ · 1 min read

A new coffee cart has the town’s permission to open at Point Tiburon Plaza, and the owners say they hope to be serving up drip coffee, espresso, premade pastries and sandwiches by mid-March.

The Planning Commission voted 3-0 Feb. 25 to grant Sam Cook and Juan Carlos Caamal a conditional use permit to operate Paradise Coffee, an 18-foot-by-12-foot trailer already sitting on the grass between the flower-shop gazebo and the Marin Transit bus stop at the plaza, located at 1775 Tiburon Blvd. Chair Daniel Amir and Commissioner Kathleen Defever were absent.

“It’s a very unique area right there in downtown — and that’s the whole point,” Commissioner Jeff Tsai said. “It gets a lot of traffic, but it also carries with it … a degree of responsibility as it relates to businesses who operate there.”

Planned operating hours for the cart are 6 a.m.-4 p.m. daily with no more than two workers on site.

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A version of this story appeared in the March 4, 2026, print edition of The Ark. See something wrong? Request a correction.
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