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STAMFORD — Andrew Zuckert has been percolating his thought for a coffee emporium in a Springdale territory for some-more than a year — before a building for his business was finished.
Today, that 88-apartment formidable during 1032 Hope St. is open, and he is prepared to serve.
Beanz coffee and espresso bar opens Saturday on a belligerent turn of 1032 Hope St. With a new establishment, Andrew Zuckert and his wife, Karen Zuckert, aim to gain on Springdale’s residential and blurb expansion to offer a epicurean coffee destination.
“I unequivocally adore Springdale since it seems like it’s a best of both worlds with Stamford: You have a city, though it also feels neighborhoody,” Andrew Zuckert pronounced Thursday during a shop. “There will be people in a morning who are looking for coffee on their approach to work. There will be families walking by who wish ice cream for their kids in a afternoon.”
Beanz — whose spelling riffs on a “Z” in Zuckert — enters a rival coffee landscape. A Dunkin’ Donuts operates a few hundred yards divided in a Springdale Shopping Center off Hope Street, and a Donut Delight stands 2 miles to a south on a same thoroughfare.
“I consider Dunkin’ Donuts has a possess fan base, and Donut Delight is a good place — I’ve left there many times, we occur to like their doughnuts,” Andrew Zuckert said. “We’re only an choice offering. We’re substantially some-more of a ‘handcrafted’ coffee emporium than those locations would be.”
Beanz is building on a success of a Zuckerts’ Gingerbitz bakery and café during 155 Elm St. in downtown New Canaan, that non-stop in 2014. The Zuckerts live in New Canaan.
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For information on Beanz Coffee during 1032 Hope St., call 203-274-7035
“We all ride to things that we like in business,” Andrew Zuckert said. “In Gingerbitz, we naturally gravitated toward a coffee. we only unequivocally suffer portion and celebration good coffee.”
As they do during Gingerbitz, a Zuckerts will use Durham, N.C.-based Counter Culture as their coffee supplier. Counter Culture’ blends issue in countries around a universe such as Ethiopia, Guatemala and Colombia.
Beanz’s 12-ounce blends and 16-ounce blends sell for $2.50 and $3.25.
Counter Culture reserve Beanz’s coffee-making apparatus and provides technical training and assistance.
“Our concentration is on exclusively indiscriminate relationships; a pursuit is to find folks like Andrew who are going to paint a coffees that we work unequivocally tough to source and to fry and move to market,” pronounced Counter Culture sales deputy Matt Banbury. “They’re going to paint those coffees to a top quality.”
Beverages embody espressos, prohibited chocolate, teas and iced drinks.
Beanz will lift a series of pastries and confectionery offerings — including croissants, cupcakes and gingerbread group — that are done during a Gingerbitz bakery.
“I feel good about charity something some-more homemade and good quality,” Karen Zuckert said. “There will always be opposite things accessible with a cookies, pastries and confectionery treats.”
The coffee emporium will underline an ice cream bar with 8 flavors, milkshakes, sandwiches and salads.
Beanz covers 400 block feet, seating 5 during a opposite inside. The Zuckerts might eventually supplement square seating, Andrew said.
The investiture will open 7 a.m. Monday by Friday. The Zuckerts are still finalizing shutting times and weekend hours. `
“We wish to move a unequivocally high-quality product to a neighborhood,” Andrew Zuckert said. “That’s a mission.”
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