Coffee and Contentment With Jack Benchakul

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Dave interviews Jack Benchakul, owner and sole barista at Endorffeine Coffee, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The two talk about Jack's path to Endorffeine, as well as coffee culture and history. They also deep-dive into their opposing philosophies on reaching the same goal: finding contentment. For their eating pleasure, Dave prepares three versions of ham and red-eye gravy, a delicious, coffee-based sauce. Learn more about Endorffeine: https://endorffeine.coffee/ Follow Endorffeine on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endorffeine/?hl=en Learn more about Cup of Excellence: https://cupofexcellence.org/ Learn more about Peterson's Coffee — Hacienda La Esmeralda: https://ptscoffee.com/blogs/meet-our-farmers/the-peterson-family-hacienda-la-esmeralda?srsltid=AfmBOorxhSAfvQxYzdOJ5aeELSGON1NYy8dQ_mJhgyehXurvEyip8MI6 Learn more about Boulevard: https://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/ Learn more about Miette: https://www.miette.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorqR7_PJ8ZDzW_BLhPDPFv0a_JMXlHlA6-z5NzYR4spHw0RyeYC Learn more about State Bird: https://www.statebirdsf.com/ Learn more about Blue Bottle Coffee: https://bluebottlecoffee.com/us/eng Learn more about Scoops: https://www.scoopschinatown.com/ Learn more about Cafe Boulud: https://cafeboulud.com/nyc/ Learn more about Fable: https://us.fable.com/ Send in your Ask Dave questions to bit.ly/AskDaveForm or [email protected]. Subscribe to the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedavechangshow. Subscribe to Recipe Club on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@recipeclubofficial. Submit your favorite food moments in your favorite movies to majorfoodporn.com. Join our community Discord on majordomo.com. Look for the black carton in the egg aisle. Host: Dave Chang Guest: Jack Benchakul Majordomo Media Producer: David Meyer Spotify Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Editor: Stefano Sanchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network, presented by Major Duma Media.
0:06.5	Thank you.
0:06.9	Yola Tango, as always.
0:08.6	I almost give you to the dinnertime live introduction.
0:11.6	We're here at Kitchen 2, our studio here at the Rowe, downtown Los Angeles.
0:16.5	I am really, really wired because I just drank all this coal brew and made some red-eye gravy,
0:25.6	ate some hamsteak, and we just spoke with Jack, the owner, proprietor of endorphine coffee
0:32.7	here down in Chinatown, downtown Los Angeles.
0:35.9	And we've talked about coffee before.
0:39.6	We're going to get to this interview in a second.
0:41.9	I've got to say probably one of my favorite interviews
0:44.0	we've done in a while.
0:45.7	It certainly starts off maybe slower
0:47.5	than you might be accustomed to.
0:49.4	Jack is soft-spoken,
0:50.6	but he's lived an extraordinary life,
0:53.0	really, really interested in how he got into the coffee
0:55.9	business to begin with.
0:58.7	But I think he talks about a lot of things that when I say the word admirable, I do because
1:06.3	I think he lives a life that I wish that I could live more of.
1:09.5	And, you know, making changes in my life as
1:11.7	we go forward because it's appreciating what you have, not what you don't have. And I think we'll
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