Never one to lay still, cook Philip Speer is launching a coffee trailer with a free bent. My Name Is Joe Coffee Co. is opening in downtown Austin along 501 Colorado Street starting tomorrow, Thursday, February 2.
Speer, whose past with drugs and alcohol is known, sees a trailer as a approach to give behind to a village and to assistance those who onslaught with those same dependencies. 1.2 percent of all My Name Is Joe sales will be donated to Comfort Cafe, a donation-only restaurant in Smithville that is run by residents of obsession diagnosis core Serenity Star Recovery.
“Coffee is how we residence obsession in a use attention and beyond,” pronounced partner William Ball (who also owns cocktail bar Garage) pronounced in a release. “We’re formulating a workplace for people in liberation where seriousness and a adore for food and coffee can't usually coexist, though thrive.”
Speer also remarkable to Eater that My Name Is will occupy people in recovery, giving them a possibility to “come behind to a attention that they adore in a unwavering environment.”
The Airstream trailer will decoction adult coffee and espresso finished adult by Tyler Wells, who knows his roasts really well. He worked during Progress Coffee and Frank, and is a owner of Nice Coffee out in Los Angeles. Beans from 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters will be used for coffee, lattes, and cappuccinos. Also on rug are horchata, cold brew, nitro cold brew, and more.
Food will be served as well, with a healthy-bent. This means almond butter toast, brownish-red rice porridge, a take on avocado toast with oats (dubbed “avocado t’oats”), granola and yogurt, and more. Everything will be accessible to sup and splash during a trailer or to-go.
This isn’t a initial time Speer and Ball have worked together before: a cook created a parking garage cocktail bar’s food menu final year. Speer is also on a heels of opening his possess restaurant, Bonhomie, set to make a Allandale debut in mid-February.
Once My Name Is Joe Coffee Co. opens, a hours are from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on a weekdays.
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