The caffeine gods hath bringeth a new church of coffee: Counter Culture Coffee’s training core during 3333 Commerce Street in Deep Ellum opens Friday, Jan 31.
You’re expected good and informed with a Durham, North Carolina–based association whose roasts you’d find during Fiction Coffee, Sip Stir Coffee House, Brewed and Pressed, and a Joule Hotel’s Third Wave coffee shop, Weekend. After substantiating a far-reaching participation in Dallas for 4 years, Counter Culture Coffee readies its “polished, towering approach to knowledge coffee,” says informal manager Kathy Altamirano.
The training center, a 13th of a kind opposite a U.S., is partial coffee propagandize and partial showroom. Baristas can accelerate their veteran bona fides by a acceptance module (basically third celebration explanation that they’ve got a skills when relocating from pursuit to job). Meanwhile, a larger coffee-loving open can join in on weekly (every Friday morning during 10) or monthly tastings, take brewing classes, nerd out on coffee acids, and exam out at-home machines. So heads adult for a pledge baristas out there.
Counter Culture opens these centers when “coffee regions” are large adequate to means such coffee geekery. When Altamirano came to Dallas a few years ago, some competence have claimed there was no cafeteria suspicion leader, no one to enliven a city’s elaborating cache of coffee houses. “But we consider that’s wrong, they only don’t get a credit,” she says. “Doing it out of a passion—that creates a good coffee community.” And it’s transparent Dallas has that in spades.
Beyond coffee, Altamirano says a space will horde pop-ups with opposite internal chefs. One entrance adult soon: cooking by cook Josh Harmon, who’s helming a soon-to-open grill during a new Belmont Hotel. (There’s no central date or details, yet, though Altamirano says to watch for it on Eventbrite.) As for this weekend’s opening festivities…
Friday, Jan. 31
A coffee tasting starts during 10 a.m., with baked treats from Crumb and Kettle, and remarks from Counter Culture owner Brett Smith. Hours are a brief 10 a.m. until noon.