Owner Alejandra Herrara shows off a selected espresso appurtenance during just-opened Quiero Cafe.
Frozen in amber, while adjacent Biddeford morphs into a new Brooklyn, exhausted Saco is removing a wakeup call. That quick flog is pleasantness of Quiero Cafe, opening May 1 in Pepperell Square. This cafeteria translates to “I Want Coffee” and that is all caffeine-starved Saconians need to know.
Located behind Rapid Rays, off Main Street, this sorely blank downtown cafeteria could be a jar this city needs to recover a pulse. There’s Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks on heavily trafficked U.S. Route 1 and a beloved, though close Fernleaf Bakery, still Saco’s coffee stage has been delayed to ignite.
Now a Colombian espresso machine, imitative a retro copper rocket ship, is whirring, whizzing and bubbling a approach to life. Serving a Colombian residence roast, crafted by Biddeford-based Maine Coast Roast, espresso drinks and prohibited chocolate, Quiero Cafe promises to delivers a goods.
Saco’s new cafeteria awaits customers.
The space (last home to an Italian bakery that went bust) sat dull deteriorate after unhappy season.
“We were flitting by and saw it dull for a longest time,” pronounced Alejandra Herrera, who was operative during a Blue Elephant catering association on a same retard and Run of a Mill Public House and Brewery on a circuitously Saco River.
Her father Carlos Guzman of Colombia is a chef. Since relocating to a states 3 years ago Guzman lerned during Taco Trio in South Portland. (York County tamale lovers rejoice!). The cafeteria fronts Latin cuisine from Chile and Colombia with Mexican accents.
Alejandra and Carlos in their new cafe.
Breakfast and lunch includes empanadas — sweet, vegetarian and chorizo pressed — tamales and arepas (the latter is corn tortillas served honeyed with prohibited cocoa). The cafeteria is also defeat adult smoothies and fresh, pleasant juices like carrot and orange.
“We’ve done a place where we would like to eat and drink. It is travel food that’s fresh, easy and tastes good,” pronounced Herrera, a internal of Chile. “We are perplexing to use internal ingredients.”
The interior has been stylishly updated. Exposed section walls, wooden beams, a spacious open space, complicated dump lights and colorful chairs creates “I Want Coffee” a new rallying cry in these parts.
Quiero Cafe, 8 Pepperell Square, Saco is open Monday by Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.