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Gear-minded coffee drinkers can knowledge a siphon coffee knowledge during Coffeecionado.
Gear-minded coffee drinkers can knowledge a siphon coffee knowledge during Coffeecionado.
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Gear-minded coffee drinkers can knowledge a siphon coffee knowledge during Coffeecionado.
Gear-minded coffee drinkers can knowledge a siphon coffee knowledge during Coffeecionado.
Photo: Mike Sutter /Staff
Colombian coffee, by many accounts, sets a tellurian bullion customary for coffee beans. The new Coffeecionado brings a full Colombian coffee knowledge to a South Side by importing, roasting and branch that country’s distinguished beans into a far-reaching operation of coffee drinks in a stylish coffee residence setting.
In a 1940s, a medium building during 502 W. Mitchell St. housed a tortillería, run by a male who also laid tile for houses in a select King William district and put a extras to use in a building. The tiles are still here, elaborate redondo pieces in a royal patchwork, complementing a pattern intrigue incorporating weathered wood, abounding earth tones, modernist upholstery and a radiant red coffee spit custom-made for owners Patricia Butler-Aguilar.
From that spit comes a operation of beans alien from Colombia, including Catimor coffee from a owner’s possess farm. The menu covers a basis — lattes, americanos, cappuccinos — though opens adult with cold-brew coffees, including a nitro chronicle blended with CBD oil.
Coffee rigging acolytes will conclude both a normal Chemex pour-overs and an exuberant copper-plated Belgian siphon machine.
Coffeecionado also sells 12-ounce bags of beans to take home, trimming from $14.50 to $16.50, on adult to $40 for singular exotics. The emporium also provides coffee beans to a handful of internal business, including Alamo Beer Co. and Southerleigh Fine Food Brewery.
For Butler-Aguilar, a shop’s as many about preparation as a good crater of coffee. “My whole thought with a spit was to denounce a coffee experience,” she said. “It’s not for a selected ones. This is not Harry Potter.”
To that end, she hosts roasting classes by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays — solely for June, when she’ll leave a emporium in barista Elizabeth Avila’s hands to do that many simple of coffee chores: picking beans on her plantation in Colombia.
Coffeecionado is during 502 W. Mitchell St., 210-618-3654, coffeecionado.coffee. It’s open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
Mike Sutter is a food and splash contributor and grill censor in a San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read him on the free site, mySA.com, and on the subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | msutter@express-news.net | Twitter: @fedmanwalking