Washington, D.C. is one of a best cities in America to spend a week vacation. Between a food, a architecture, and a infinite array of museums, travelers to a nation’s collateral are never in wish for things to do. It’s a arrange of city where any time spent in a hotel room is time wasted. And that’s a pride behind a POD Hotel in Penn Quarter. You don’t go to places like DC to hang out in a hotel room, so because compensate a lot of income for amenities we never use?
But one amenity that is positively required is coffee. That’s because POD Hotels teamed adult with Virginia-based Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co. for Crimson, a coffee bar/whiskey bar/high-end Southern comfort caf� on a bottom building of a DC hotel. Now sap sojourners can get fueled adult before a day of exploring all a story a District has to offer, all from a preference of their stream home divided from home. Doing that fueling are pleasing tradition copper Modbar espresso modules portion a accumulation of coffees from Blanchard’s, certain to damp any form of coffee drinker. So while you’re going to wish to spend as tiny time in a hotel as possible, if you’re staying during a POD Hotel in Washington, D.C., maybe carve out a few additional mins for coffee during Crimson.
As told to Sprudge by Stephen Robertson.
For those who aren’t familiar, will we tell us about your company?
Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co. is a Richmond, Virginia formed coffee spit founded in 2005 by David Blanchard. Blanchard’s goal is to build village and attention resilience by tolerable sourcing, courteous roasting, and honoring amiability from plantation to cup. Primarily a indiscriminate roaster, BCRC works with retailers and brewers comparison to move excellent, tolerable coffee to business via a mid-Atlantic segment and beyond, as good as regulating a colourful web-store portion business via a USA.
Can we tell us a bit about a new space?
Crimson is a multiple-level partnership commencement with DC’s initial POD Hotel by Modus, partnering with good famous internal restauranteurs, Ian Eric Hilton, to rise a 3 partial food/beverage judgment on a run and groundwork floors of a hotel.
The POD Hotel indication is to place a beautifully designed hotel in a primary city plcae featuring unequivocally small, nonetheless good allocated bedrooms during an affordable cost point, with a thought that if you’re staying in a core of a colourful city, there is no need for a large, intemperate hotel room—get out of a room and go explore. The initial partial of that scrutiny starts on a belligerent building of a hotel, where there is an expanded whiskey bar downstairs, an upscale caf� upstairs, and a full coffee emporium front and core that serves a restaurants, hotel guests, and ubiquitous open alike.
The coffee shop, along with a dual restaurants, is ethereal and sleek, while still progressing a soft, southern attract with a juncture of purify lines, soothing finishes, and copper fixtures.
What’s your proceed to coffee?
Our passion is good coffee, simply put. We work constantly to source a best probable coffee, sustainably, and fry to best prominence any coffees best attributes. We mix that roasting truth with a low concentration on education. We have a SCA approved tutor on staff, as good as dual Q Arabica graders, and a whole staff is in a routine of earning Barista we certification.
We trust everybody deserves a good crater of coffee though pretense. Modern specialty coffee mostly runs a risk of apropos a bit precious, and yet we entirely trust a coffees are precious—we are wakeful that not everybody needs or wants that experience. With Crimson, and all of a partners, we essay to emanate a menu that will greatfully usually about any form of coffee drinker. We offer 3 collection brews: a daily blend, in a box of Crimson, a mix we call Handshake—a tiny bit of abyss on a fry to prominence benevolence and drinkability; a rotating, receptive singular origin—always something that provides some-more complexity than a blend, though is still a ambience pleaser for many people; and an superb Swiss Water Process Decaf—because if we have to splash decaf, it should during slightest ambience great.
Our espresso menu is elementary and traditional—no surprises—we underline a Rosedale in a espresso beverages—a bright, honeyed espresso with floral and soothing fruit records that pacify with milk, or gleam simply as an espresso. Finally, we offer a rotating singular start for palm pours and S/O espressos. This coffee is generally some-more fruit brazen and geared toward some-more brave palates.
Any machines, coffees, special apparatus lined up?
We are unequivocally vehement about a apparatus package we put together for this location. The centerpiece of a coffee bar is a three group tradition copper Modbar setup interconnected with a Mahlkönig PEAK espresso millstone and a copper Mahlkonig EKK43. We’re also featuring Monarch Methods copper kettles and Hario copper drippers, as good as all Acaia scales.
We are featuring Modbar, not usually for functionality, though for their implausible pattern and countertop presence, that suits a neat lines of this coffee bar.
We’re regulating FETCO apparatus for a collection brew, and we have singular start nitro cold decoction on daub as well.
What’s your carefree aim opening date/month?
The plcae non-stop a final week of June.
Are we operative with craftspeople, architects, and/or creatives that you’d like to mention?
The stellar architecture, design, and build-out have all been by Modus and POD Hotel—and they have finished an superb pursuit brining a apparatus devise and blueprint to life.
Thank you!
You’re welcome.
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