API V3 results are not sorted by distance

Hi Community, I am sending the following request:

https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search?sort_by=distance&term=coffee+place&location=1090+folsom+St+San+Francisco

I get blue-bottle-coffee-co-san-francisco-7 as the first result. However, sightglass-coffee-san-francisco is closer to this location. It seems that no matter what address I send around this area I get the same sort. Even when I am requesting one block form sightglass-coffee-san-francisco.

This is the response I get:

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