Neighborhood Restaurant Group’s stirring “culinary clubhouse,” a Roost, is bringing together a ton of opposite food and splash concepts trimming from an Italian-American grill to low-ABV cocktail and splash bars. The latest addition: Cameo, a not-quite-a-food-hall‘s specialty coffee shop.
Cameo will offer brews from domestic and tellurian roasters. Nazia Khan, before of The Wydown, has been tapped to conduct a program. She skeleton to balance a list of permitted and informed flavors (think abounding chocolates) while introducing fruity, luscious palates found in specialty roasts. She also wants to bond caffeinated Washingtonians with lesser-known coffee producers in Papua New Guinea and Rwanda..
The coffee emporium is also operative with NRGs chefs to emanate an general register of tradition syrups. A cook like Robert Curtis (Hazel) cooking Turkish cuisine competence be pulled in for a play on Turkish coffee. The group is also collaborating to emanate a residence nut-based milk.
The other concepts announced during a Roost, splash gymnasium Shelter and cocktail destination Show of Hands, are focusing on providing non-alcoholic or low-alcohol beverages. The coffee chronicle of low ABV is low-to-no caffeine, and Cameo’s lax root tea module is directed during ensuring there’s an choice for everyone. Baristas can decoction a crater of high-energy coffee or qualification a foamy matcha or rose tea latte.
Before branch to coffee full time, Khan worked during a Atlantic Council focusing on process and growth in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Her proceed to sourcing during Cameo takes on a same tellurian viewpoint and aims to emanate opportunities around a world.
“We can be unequivocally tiny players like a speciality coffee emporium or a spit in a US, though make a outrageous impact on a tellurian marketplace since we can change how we buy. We can source directly,” says Khan. “You can make an impact immediately as a consumer.”
Cameo, along with other concepts during The Roost, is slated to entrance in winter 2020.
The Roost, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. SE.
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Daniella assimilated Washingtonian in Aug 2018. She is a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad and lives in Logan Circle.