Milli

✨🚨We’re hiring for our Savory team. 🚨✨

To work in tandem with our pastry program as we evolve, deep reverence and respect for pastry and bread as the foundation is paramount.

We value curiosity, and a willingness to explore the intersections of every part of our cafe, coffee, pastry, wine and service. We’re looking for folks who can compliment the passion, care and intention of what has already been built here behind the scenes in our kitchen. If interested, send us a cover letter and your resume, to [email protected]

Weekdays: laptops away after 2pm.
Fridays, Weekends: no laptops.

A love letter, because we want to say it this way,

To you, who arrive already divided. Part of you here, part of you pulled taut somewhere else, inside a message, a deadline, a future that keeps asking for proof of your devotion. We recognize this. We often find ourselves inside it too.

What if you could sit at a table and belong to nothing but the hour you are in? The pastries we make do not wait for you to catch up, they are alive only at the insistence of a season, the grain, the orchard, the rain. The wines we pour are born from grapes tended in collaboration with seasonal and cosmic rhythms, guided by subtle human intuition, each bottle a map of its place, its year, its labor. The coffee travels continents, mornings begun before ours, processed and roasted to reveal structure, tension, clarity, body, to arrive in your hands fully expressed. All of this asks one thing: presence.

So, we make this gentle, unyielding request: after 2pm Monday - Thursday, let’s put the laptops away. Friday- Sunday, let the tables breathe free of them entirely. Not as a restriction, but as an offering. As a chance to meet what is here, what is fleeting, what requires you to be present.

You are allowed, even briefly, to be unclaimed by the world outside our door.

Love,
Milli

We’re Hiring!

We’re looking for an AM Café Lead who is passionate about coffee, someone who loves working with carefully sourced, direct trade varietals and takes pride in every cup served.

You’ll lead our morning program, create specialty seasonal beverages, guide guests through the coffee experience, and support a team that cares as much about quality and service as you do.

If you’re energized by great coffee, food and wine, enjoy creating smooth mornings for both guests and your team, this is your role.

Follow the link in bio to apply.

Spring in the Midwest rarely arrives all at once. It moves like weather here tends to move, in flashes and reminders. A cold morning that still feels like winter. A sudden seventy degree afternoon that sends the city delirious, high on sunshine and the promise of heat. Long gray rains that could just as easily belong to fall. For a few weeks, the whole year seems to pass through at once.

A café lives in those seasons too, carrying what came before, working in the moment we’re in, and curiously exploring what might come next.

We’re pouring three drinks that mark a moment in time.

Espresso Cream Soda:
Espresso, sparkling soda, vanilla and cream. Reaching back in time to a classic our community has previously enjoyed.

Strawberry Thyme Latte:
Strawberry, herbal thyme, and espresso. Shared moments stretched across the city at the same time. A taste of the present, a drink in parallel reality, from Kara at our Fulton shop and arriving here, alive in two places at once.

Passionfruit & Coriander Iced Tea:
Bright passionfruit, coriander and Spirit Tea’s Crescent Green Tea, acid ripe excitement for summer gatherings, future gardens abundant with herbs.

Valentine’s Day at Milli

Surprise! Inspired by love, we’re opening bottles that feel a little electric. The flirty ones. The lush ones. The “who brought this?” ones. Expect pours that are aromatic, generous, maybe a little dramatic in the glass. Just for tomorrow, we’ll have a limited BTG menu. We’re excited to share what we’ve been tasting in preparation for our regular wine service, and curious what you like too.

Love, after all, is chemistry.
Fermentation.
Time and pressure doing something beautiful.

We’ll have flowers from forDreams lining the bar, special pastries coming warm from the oven, and bon bons, chocolate as punctuation. Coffee too, steady as ever.

Bring your person, your friends, or just yourself, let us pour you something lovely.