When Lost City Coffee took over Black Black Coffee in RiNo final fall, there was no goal to open a second location. However, reduction than 4 months later, that’s accurately what owners Michael Graham is doing. This Friday, Feb 7, outlines a grand opening of Lost City Capitol Hill inside a First Baptist Church during 1373 Grant Street.
“We weren’t formulation to expand, though what unequivocally appealed to us about this space is that a First Baptist Church has built village that is general and focused,” Graham explains.
The space before housed a Spring Cafe, that sealed this past Dec after 5 years of contracting refugees from other countries looking to build new lives in metro Denver. Part of a interest of a space, says Graham, is that a Spring Cafe’s goal aligned with that of Lost City — with one tiny difference. “One of a reasons a Spring Cafe gave for shutting was problem anticipating refugees to work given a stream domestic climate,” he notes. Instead, Lost City skeleton to concentration on mentoring, fundraising and building understanding partnerships with organizations like Comal Heritage Food Incubator and a Spring Institute, that ran a Spring Cafe.
Plans to renovate a space began in late November. “We’ve taken what was kind of a village space and done it brighter; we doubled a seating and combined books and plants, pulling that over from Lost City RiNo,” a owners adds.
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The new Lost City comes versed with a blurb kitchen, permitting Lost City to enhance a food menu and excavate into catering. Fresh facilities include strawberries and burrata, a quinoa salad done with greens from Dahlia Farms’ aquaponic greenhouse, a Caribbean smoked tilapia salad, and a changing preference of sandwiches done with Haystack Mountain Creamery cheeses and River Bear meats. “We’re focusing as most as probable on ancillary businesses in a village that are doing good,” Graham states.
Coffee options sojourn unchanging between RiNo and Capitol Hill, with standards like drip, pour-over and lattes regulating coffee from Method Collective. Chai and matcha and other teas also seem on a scrabble-tiled menus. In fact, a initial taste-testers of a extended catering menu were employees of Willie Nelson’s Colorado-based company, Willie’s Remedy, whose CDB tea can be found on a menu during both locations as well.
After spending a final week operative out a kinks, Graham is formulation a large celebration for friends and family to offer new menu equipment and horde performances from a few internal bands. Both locations will have wine licenses and will shortly entrance cocktails, along with jazz happy hour and a singer-songwriter array to element a Swallow Hill concerts and other events hold during a church. The cafeteria will be open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Monday by Friday.
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