Since she non-stop Dec. 20, Brantley has seen her custom-built tables and chairs on both floors fill with people enjoying a morning or afternoon brew.
“It’s good any time of day,” a 46-year-old Dixon local said. “Wake adult in a morning to have some, have a small caffeine flog in a afternoon, and that’s good, too.”
It’s a splash that comes in many flavors and concoctions, with unconstrained possibilities.
“There are so many opposite things we can do with coffee,” she said.
The menu doesn’t stop during coffee: Coffee Crush serves espressos, teas, drinks, and fresh-to-order pastries and sandwiches prepared by a group of 11 baristas.
Most coffee comes from Counter Culture, a spit formed in Durham, North Carolina, though a organisation also has done some singular mixes.
One splash that’s turn a warn strike is Milkadamia, concocted by barista Greta Harrington, 19, of Dixon. It is a mocha tea latte with vanilla syrup and macadamia bulb milk.
“When we initial tasted it, we didn’t unequivocally like it since it was prohibited and it tasted like grass,” Harrington said. “I afterwards wanted to do it iced since we like iced drinks and supplement vanilla since it adds benevolence and intensifies a divert flavor.”
Each day offers a opposite fritter on a menu, as good as a “Barista’s Crush of a Day,” that recently enclosed another brew from Harrington: a watermelon mango smoothie.
Belgian waffles come Liege-style, done from dough, not batter, with pearls of Belgian sugarine baked right in that melts and caramelizes with a waffle. No syrup needed.
Cara Harden, 31, of Dixon visited Monday and enjoyed a environment and her caramel butterscotch latte.
“It’s got a good balance. It’s not too sweet, and it’s frothy on top.”
Brantley has owned a building, before home to Domino’s Pizza, for roughly 2 years, and before that, it was an arcade and a dairy.
The timber tables, chairs and wall taste all were done and furbished during a Brantley family garage with her husband, Kris. They wanted Coffee Crush to be a mark where people can suffer their splash and feel comfortable.
“It was unequivocally a labor of love,” she said. “We done many all in here ourselves. It’s been a large process, though it’s been fun.”
What’s brewin’?
Coffee Crush, 122 N. Peoria Avenue, is open from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday by Friday, and from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
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