Almanegra means “black soul.” The coffee emporium non-stop a doors 3 years ago in a comfortable, familiar, and pleasing area of Narvarte in Mexico City. Its 3 co-founders picked a area given it was theirs—they gamble on their home quartier given of a architecture, peculiarity restaurants, and atmosphere.
Almanegra was a initial cafeteria in Narvarte where a element impression was coffee. Now, after dual successful years, it’s prepared for a second act—this time in La Roma.
Almanegra’s is a minimalist design, where seasonally-changing coffee art hangs on a walls. It is a gentle place to work, read, or have a good chat. Octavio Ruiz, one of Almanegra’s owners, done certain a La Roma plcae would have a apparatus to compare his ambitions for quality—namely a La Marzocco GS3 for espresso drinks, and primer brewers including the Eva Solo, Chemex, Japanese syphon, and Hario V60.
Almanegra also has cold decoction dual ways—made customary in a Bruer, and nitro. Those impressed with selecting a splash won’t have to—you can “worship” all Almanegra’s coffees during once, a special sequence that includes a cold decoction or manually-brewed coffee, an espresso, and a Gibraltar, placed side by side.
Almanegra serves a accumulation of roasters depending on what’s appealing during a given time, though always offers at slightest one inhabitant and one general option. For a opening between harvests, they use Finca Chelín from Oaxaca, given of a consistent quality and a company’s good storage ethic. Almanegra works palm in palm with a farm’s owner, Enrique Lopez, to furnish coffee that’s after roasted by their main Mexican roaster, Querétaro’s Gas Up Master Coffee.
Almanegra has cultivated relations with many roasters given their foundation, including Café Limón in Monterrey, Gas Up, and Impetus in Veracruz. Impetus works directly with producers from Veracruz, permitting them plenty space to examination with estimate methods. They have done cleared micro-lots with opposite lengths of fermentation, as good as healthy and honey-processed coffees.
Almanegra also serves general coffees including those by 575, that exclusively creates healthy coffees in Colombia. They’ve also used coffee from Bar Nine, Dragonfly Coffee Roasters, Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters, Verve Coffee Roasters, and Sospeso, a Mexican organisation in Tijuana that sources general coffee.
For a owners from Almanegra, flourishing a strech of coffee enlightenment is important. The La Roma plcae facilities a coffee library of sorts, full of coffee books and magazines like Standart, Drift, and Caffeine Magazine, that they also sell.
Although they usually only expanded, there are already skeleton to open a third Almanegra in San Miguel de Allende, a pleasing and smart colonial city in Guanajuato. Despite a some-more tourist-heavy location, design a new Almanegra to have a same aged essence as a predecessors.
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