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Strawberry Matcha is BACK! Using only the best ceremonial grade matcha from 🍓🍵

‼️ MAYDAY ‼️

New month, new things!

1) Al Pastor Bun. Sourdough brioche with marinated pulled pork rolled inside, cojita cheese on top, served with a side of salsa verde. We normally only have the flavored (non-cinnamon) buns Thurs-Sun now but we will also have this one on Tuesday (Cinco de Mayo).

2) New Elegant Coffees!

Ethiopia Bensa Mirado. Mirado is a new washing station for us, but if you’ve been drinking our Ethiopian coffees for a while, you’ll recognize a lot about it. 300 small-holders at high elevation in Bensa, Sidama provide cherry to Asefa Dukamo of the legendary Daye Bensa Coffee Company for processing. As you’d expect, the flavor is amazing! We taste peach, jasmine honey, raspberry, lemon, and nectarine. This one is fantastic both hot and iced (flash-brewed), and it will make a great light roast espresso too!🍑🍋🍯

Colombia Finca El Paraíso Gesha Washed. This is not what you might expect from Diego Samuel Bermudez! If you look at the processing that was done on this coffee (it actually has a low temperature anaerobic fermentation), you might expect big-time funky fruits with a “process-forward” kind of flavor profile. But in fact it is just the opposite: this coffee is gentle, delicate, and elegant. Don’t mistake that for a lack of flavor though! This tastes like the best of the washed geshas we’ve ever offered - think ginger, white tea, lemon blossom, orange juice, and jasmine.💐🍊

Not new, but the sourdough bread has been 10/10 recently. Take home a loaf or enjoy it in the cafe as part of the Turkey Super Sandwich or Avocado Toast.🥪🥑

And finally, it is Blueberry Lavender Latte season! Syrups are housemade, of course. Enjoy!🫐

🎂🎉🍦☕️ TEN YEARS ☕️🍦🎉🎂

On Monday April 20 we will be celebrating our 10th birthday!

Come join us for 50% off affogatos (espresso + Vanilla Bean ice cream) and maybe a few other little surprises.

Thank you so much to everyone who has been a part of our journey - staff, customers, vendors, the neighborhood, all the local artists who have put their art up on our walls, and surely more that we are forgetting!

Special no thank you to the City of Philadelphia as in less than 30 days it will have been 2 full years since we applied for our sidewalk cafe license and we still do not have it and get fined every week for having the tables & chairs out (look at our past posts with photos of the tables & chairs if you want the whole sad, comedic story on this)! Also no thank you for the big increase in BIRT tax and for the removal of the U&O exemption. They seem to be doing their best to crush small business but we’re still here and plan to be for many years to come.

🐣 Easter Specials!🐣

New Black Label series coffee now available on pourover as well as in retail bags: Colombia Los Patios Bright Yellow Co-Ferment!

Bright Yellow is a co-ferment with peach concentrate as well as ’s own proprietary solution. In the cup, there is of course an obvious sweet, juicy peach note but there’s a lot more going on too (which is generally not the case with co-ferments), we taste a beautiful coconut and pineapple combination which screams piña colada. Enjoy!🍑🍍🥥

Peeps Bronuts™️ - sourdough baked brioche donuts with marshmallow cream filling, marshmallow frosting, topped with sanding sugar. 🍩

Carrot Cake Bun - sourdough brioche with spiced carrot walnut filling rolled inside, topped with cream cheese frosting and crushed walnuts. 🥕

And shoutout to the standard cinnamon buns and croissants which have been looking and tasting excellent!

💥 New Pastry Specials💥

Baklava Bronut™️ - sourdough baked brioche donut with pistachio and honey filling, honey frosting, topped with crushed pistachio 🍯

Loaded Baked Potato Bun - sourdough brioche with mashed potato filling rolled inside, topped with cheddar, bacon, and chives 🥔 🥓 🧀 🌱

Here’s to no more snow this winter, please. ☃️

Here’s what you can look forward to this week:

Two new coffees from La Pradera: a Gesha and a Pink Bourbon!

The only thing that could be better than a Pink Bourbon from one of our favorite farms in Huila is a Gesha, and here it is! We’re having a hard time putting into words how delicious this coffee is. This may sound a little strange but it almost tastes like cucumber water that has been sweetened with other fruits and flowers. In particular, we taste mango, peach, honeydew, ginger, and tulip. Honestly, it’s everything we look for in a coffee: clean, bright, sweet, and full of nuance. We hope you enjoy this incredibly special coffee as much as we do!🥭🌷

The Pink Bourbon was one of our top favorites last year so we are thrilled to have it back on the menu. These washed Pink Bourbons from Huila are simply bursting with character, particularly with big acidity and big sweetness, often reminding us of pink lemonade. In this beautiful lot we taste pomegranate, red currant, grapefruit, and hibiscus.🌺

On the pastry front, we have Fruity Pebbles Bronuts™️ and Pear Almond Butterscotch Buns!

Black Forest Bronuts™️ 🍫🍒 or Tiramisu Buns☕️?