Introducingtwo New
Blends
The same Sidama harvest at two ends of the roast. Bahir stops at medium: blueberry, honey, bergamot. Midnight Noir keeps going until the fruit turns to molasses and smoke. Both fair trade, both in the cafés now.
Roaster, retailer, & importerOf fine coffees
Since1974
To our house line
to your kitchen
Roasted on Tuesdays.
Blends we have made for decades, single origins from the same farms every year, and a decaf that tastes like coffee.
Six cafés in Chicago.
The original on Station Street, the bakery at Lakeview, the tasting room beside the roaster, and three newer counters: a patio café, the Galleria and a kiosk at Lakeshore Commons.
Station Street
Lakeview
The Roastery
Prairie Road
The Galleria
Lakeshore Commons
The grilled cheese, since 1974.
It was on the first menu because it was the only thing the founders could cook. It has never come off, and it is still made on the grill behind the counter at every café with a kitchen.
- Grilled cheeseThree cheeses on sourdough, since 1974
- CortadoTrenta, equal parts
- Jupiter JulepCold brew, mint, a little sugar
- Morning bunCardamom and orange, from Lakeview
A drum roaster, a scale and a stopwatch.
Twelve kilos at a time on a roaster that was rebuilt twice before it came to us. Every batch is tasted the next morning before it is bagged.
- 01
Buy
Fair trade is the floor. The same cooperatives every year, and more for the lots we love.
- 02
Roast
Tuesdays, small batches, a profile for each coffee we have argued over for years.
- 03
Rest
Four days before it ships. The roast date is on every bag.
From the roastery.
Two new blends, one origin
Bahir and Midnight Noir are the same Ethiopian coffee at two ends of the roast. Here is why we did that.
How we buy coffee
Fair trade is the floor, not the ceiling. What the stamp means, and what we do on top of it.
Fifty-two years of Station Street
The café opened in 1974 with one roaster, one grinder and a grilled cheese. Two of those are still going.
First to the new coffees.
A note when a new coffee lands or the cafés change the menu, and not much else.
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