Bodega Wine Bar has been a partial of Santa Monica’s fabric given 2006. Originally a bar focusing on booze and beer, Bodega is a favorite happy hour mark for locals looking to get a splash and breeze down after work. As of Jan of this year, a owners, Jason McEntee and Greg Seares, motionless to enhance a bar to residence a full coffee program, so branch Bodega into a cafeteria in a daytime.
Over a years, Santa Monica’s Silicon Beach, an area home to over 500 tech companies, has fast grown and remade a beach-side city into an industrial hub. In response, businesses catering to tech companies have given Santa Monica a reconstruction of sorts.
“When Bodega non-stop behind in 2006, a area was sincerely quiet,” Seares says. “There were a few sell businesses, a empty lot, a automobile correct emporium and a lot of apartments. In a past 5 years, Silicon Beach has turn a thing, so a growth of new living, retail, and bureau spaces has vastly increasing a area feet traffic.”
McEntee and Seares motionless that given they already had a space, they’d implement it to offer good coffee in a area where there formerly was nothing within walking distance. They looked to Canaan Vallejos to manage a coffee program. Vallejos started his career in coffee 11 years ago in Colorado. After upping his barista skills, he landed a gig during Sightglass in San Francisco—as prolongation administrator where he worked closely with a roasters and immature coffee buyer. From there, he transitioned into roasting with Andytown Coffee Roasters. Now, he is heading Bodega’s coffee undertaking.
Although a coffee came after during Bodega, it’s by no means secondary. Vallejos has unequivocally put his passion and coffee knowledge into a program. Starting with a water, a apparatus during Bodega has been delicately selected. The H2O is filtered with Everpure’s MRS-600HE-II Reverse Osmosis System, giving a baristas full control of a H2O environment. The beans are belligerent on Mahlkönig‘s Guatemala 710 and Nuova Simonelli’s Mythos One Clima Pro grinders. For their splash of choice, visitors can opt for season from a Fetco 2132 XTS Twin 3L brewer or espresso from La Marzocco’s 2-group Linea PB. There’s also nitro cold decoction from Verve on tap, ideal for cooling down in a heat. The coffee will of march pull a crowds, yet a neat interior of a cafeteria is also mouth-watering and novel.
The elements of a bar are elegantly illuminated by a LA fever entrance in by a windows. Natural light in a space highlights a interior pattern with unprotected brick, teak timber craftsmanship, and leather and wicker furniture. The seating area is furnished with prolonged tables and stools—perfect for those looking for a place to work, along with couches interconnected with coffee tables. Coffee can be enjoyed until 5:00pm, yet booze and splash are accessible all day long.
“It’s an sparkling time in third call specialty coffee, so yet we launched with Verve Coffee Roasters, a long-term idea is to share smashing coffee with people by featuring new and existent talent with rotating roasters,” Seares says, adding that Bodega also serves Sightglass and Kilogram Tea. They also offer pastries like classical croissants and gorilla bread from circuitously Larder Baking Co.
The cafeteria during Bodega has usually been open for about half a year, yet they’ve already gained a large following. It’s no surprise, given a circuitously tech workers need their daily collect me up, after all. Soon, they might even be means to get their lunch there—Bodega has a cafeteria food menu in a works. Brunch in LA, anyone?
Tatiana Ernst (@TatianaErnst) is a Sprudge staff author formed in Los Angeles. Read more Tatiana Ernst on Sprudge.
