He skeleton to open a Kensington coffee emporium in late summer
Car Wash Coffee in Kensington
Joe Zimmermann
Steve Harris did not wish his coffee emporium to be a Starbucks.
When he was meditative of how to fill a former home of Savannah’s American Grill in Kensington, Harris, who also owns a adjacent Mr. Wash automobile rinse and a other locations, pronounced he wanted to open something that would yield a use and act as a entertainment space for people in a area.
He staid on Car Wash Coffee, that he hopes will be a “cool, hip coffee bar” that feels like a village entertainment mark in a approach a blurb coffee sequence competence not.
Harris pronounced he skeleton to open Car Wash Coffee someday in late summer.
“It’s going to be a genuine cold coffee bar for a Kensington community,” he said. “It’ll be a smashing place to have crater of coffee and speak to any other with light snacks.”
Car Wash Coffee will offer coffee from Vigilante Coffee, a Hyattsville-based association that roasts coffee served in Washington, D.C.-area cafes, Harris said. It will also underline nitro coffee, a new trend of cold-brewed coffee that is served true from a daub like a beer.
The space will have some outside seating and village tables inside. The emporium also might sell some light food options, like pastries and sandwiches done onsite.
While Harris wants some business to be means to squeeze a crater of coffee while they are watchful for services from Jiffy Lube during Mr. Wash, Harris pronounced he also thinks a emporium will also attract commuters or circuitously residents.
Mr. Wash has been run by a Harris family for 3 generations. Harris’s son, Nathan, has taken over a operations of a automobile wash, that has 5 other locations in Maryland and Virginia.
Harris pronounced he feels assured about branching into coffee.
“We’ve been in business for 60 years,” he said. “We’re not gonna disaster something adult and do something that’s not nice.”