Ballast Coffee is the ideal work station in West Portal. The quiet, airy cafe makes great iced and hot drinks (plus ube and calamansi-infused coffee), and serves mochi muffins from Third Culture ...

"It began around our coffee station, which is basically a space on one of our lab benches," said Mathijssen, a professor of physics at the university. One of his Ph.D. students, Ernest Park ...