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Leyla Dam is a owners of Lorca, a coffee emporium on Bedford Street, in Stamford, Conn. Photographed on Wednesday, May 7, 2014.
Leyla Dam is a owners of Lorca, a coffee emporium on Bedford Street, in Stamford, Conn. Photographed on Wednesday, May 7, 2014.
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Harborview Market
218 Harborview Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06605
4 stars on Yelp
108 reviews
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Coffee time is a really critical time of a day, so don’t rubbish it during only any coffee shop.
We took a demeanour during what Yelp users have to contend about internal coffee shops, and a outcome is in: Lorca in Stamford is a favorite coffee emporium among Yelpers in southwestern Connecticut.
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“This is a pleasing coffee emporium we enjoyed a coffees my lady crony and we subsequent time we go there we have to try a Cortado and churro. we only changed to Stamford and we contingency contend this is an overwhelming find,” one Yelp reviewer wrote.
The cortado, a little Spanish-style coffee with equal tools coffee and milk, is one a of a drinks that Lorca is famous for, according to manager Claire Sears-Tam. Other renouned equipment are a churros and a alfajor cookies–a shortbread cookie with dulce de leche filling.
The alfajor cookie is done regulating a owner’s mother’s recipe and it is a impulse for Lorca’s stream anniversary latte. Each season, Lorca creates a new coffee drink.
For coffee buffs, Lorca brings in guest coffee roasters each dual to 3 months to offer something different. Guest roasters have enclosed internal roasters like neighbor Espresso Neat in Darien.
Sears-Tam pronounced gripping it internal and charity a village vibe has been essential to a success of Lorca given it non-stop in 2013.
“It’s a little space has that village feel; we know you’re during an independently-owned shop. We’re on a first-name basement with customers; we know their drinks and get to know them as friends,” she said.
Yelpers agree; one reviewer described Lorca as: “A small, friendly small coffee emporium in downtown. It’s intensely little and typically filled with a locals (unless we occur to be roving by and are hungry, like me).”
Another said, “Good coffee and cold baristas. Hipster central, make me feel like I’m in BK again. Always busy, generally on weekends.”
Sears-Tam pronounced she knew Lorca had a good Yelp repute though she doesn’t demeanour during a reviews so as not to dwell on a negative. She pronounced she prefers feedback in chairman from customers.
“We’re successful now since of word of mouth. It’s not reliant on Yelp; that’s for new people to town. Our repute is certain for a many partial for residents of Stamford.”