The new downtown spots offer a different operation of joe.
An heterogeneous party of new coffee shops aims to keep downtown West Palm Beach scrupulously caffeinated. Three of them are now brewing along Clematis Street, a fourth only blocks to a north.
The shops offer a operation of caf varieties, from locally roasted coffee to Jamaican Blue Mountain sips to epicurean blends to high-octane Cuban cafecito. But over a joe, there are some tantalizing bites to be found during your coffee run.
Here’s a brew:
Patria Caf
This European-style caf has brought a small snazz to a former C Street Caf space on Clematis Street’s 300 block. The newly renovated space sparkles with Murano chandeliers, an exuberant fresco wall and glossy caf-colored floors. The redo suggested some of a building’s strange features, including terrazzo flooring patterns and Carrara marble window sills, that have been restored, says grill maestro Paul Ardaji Jr., who non-stop a place with his fianc, Samantha Leah Marulli, on Valentine’s Day.
The caf is as most a coffee emporium as it is a quick-service grill charity artistic sandwiches on locally baked bread, break salads, all-day breakfast sandwiches and pastries. They share a menu with specialty coffees that embody a Patria residence blend, a medium-roast brew of Kenyan, Sumatran and Costa Rican coffees. There’s tea and chai as well, and Ardaji skeleton to supplement drink and booze after this month.
Ardaji’s internal grill ventures embody opening a strange Cabo Flats in Palm Beach Gardens and a ephemeral Fuku sushi grill on Clematis Street. But in some-more new years, he says he “fell in love” with a coffee business, opening a coffee-and-sandwich mark in Southington, Connecticut. He’s no longer concerned with that business, though he says he still loves a locally roasted coffee from that area. His operation of fair-trade, organic coffees during Patria are roasted in Connecticut.
Patria: 319 Clematis St., Suite 101 (Comeau Building), West Palm Beach; 561-286-0333
Cortadito Cuban Caf
This tiny, weekday coffee shop, located 3 blocks north of Clematis Street, is a pedestrian’s oasis. It is tucked into an bony space on a belligerent building of a parking garage building that’s a brief travel from a downtown West Palm Beach courthouse, supervision and authorised offices.
As a name suggests, there’s all manners of Cuban caf opposite favorites, like croquetas, guava pastries, beef empanadas and Cuban sandwiches. It’s a good mark to squeeze some warm, buttered Cuban toast ($1.75) and a caf criminal leche (from $2.50) to get your day going. Heftier options are offering as well: Steak sandwiches surfaced with grilled onions and potato sticks ($8.50). Grilled cheese on Cuban bread ($6). Pan criminal lechn (7.99). Plus a few breakfast egg dishes, pastries, coffees and juices (including creatively squeezed orange juice, $4.50, and uninformed lemonade, $3.50).
The emporium is a sister eatery to Rivales Taquera (formerly JimmyChangas) on North Olive Avenue, only north of Clematis Street. Owners Jimmy Rivas and Alberto Valdivia, who accost from Nicaragua, non-stop a coffee emporium on Feb. 24. The shop, that is open Monday by Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., is best for grab-and-go service. But there are a few tables on a square outward for when we wish to suffer your pastelito in peace.
Cortadito Cuban Caf: 444 W. Railroad Ave. (at 3rd Street), West Palm Beach; 561-888-6935
Blue Mountain Coffee House
A caf that serves blue mountain-grown coffee and Jamaican patties? Yes, we can get your jar of caffeine and sharp flavors here. Owner Allison Boettcher hails from Jamaica’s St. Andrew Parish, that is graced by a widen of a stately Blue Mountains. The towering operation grows some of a world’s best coffee and that coffee is now brewed during Boettcher’s three-month-old shop.
It’s a slight though stylishly set emporium with a menu that’s anything though predicted for a West Palm caf. The all-day breakfast equipment embody Jamaican hard-dough bread (“hardo” to those in a know) with corned beef ($7.50), a operation of pancakes (from $5.99), homemade organic German rye bread with avocado ($8), and croissants and bagels (from $3) and daily specials like ackee and saltfish with plantain.
For lunch and break time, there are 3 forms of Jamaican patties (from $3.75), sharp jerk duck wraps ($10.99), grass-fed beef sliders ($10.99), and salads and sandwiches, cakes and pastries.
Blue Mountain Coffee House: 540 Clematis St., Unit 3 (facing Rosemary Avenue), West Palm Beach, 561-318-7296
Oceana Coffee
Tequesta’s renouned coffee roasters have non-stop a pop-up mount during a new Thoroughfare marketplace judgment on a 300 retard of Clematis Street. Known for their formidable and award-winning blends, Oceana Coffee owners Scott and Amy Angelo have been roasting locally given 2009. In further to their strange coffee roasting residence and shop, a integrate owns a coffee lounge, both in Tequesta.
The new Clematis Street mark is open Monday by Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., though shortly those hours might be extended to 2:30 p.m., says Amy Angelo. While it’s some-more of a coffee mount than shop, you’ll find a few outside tables where we can season your coffee.
Oceana Coffee: 314 Clematis St. (Thoroughfare market), West Palm Beach
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