Batch № 415Roasted Tue
Streetcar
House blend · Brazil Cerrado + Colombia Huila
- Chocolate
- Hazelnut
- Brown sugar
The blend on both grinders at the bar. Built for espresso, forgiving in a French press, steady all year.
Medium
$1712 oz · whole bean
The roastery
The name comes from the ceiling.
When Maya Okafor and Sam Reyes gutted the old hardware store at 412 Cortland in 2019, they found a copper gas line running the full length of the ceiling — installed sometime in the fifties, still pressure-tight. The contractor wanted to rip it out. It now feeds the burners on the roaster.
The roaster itself is a rebuilt twelve-kilo drum from 1987 that Sam drove back from Portland in a rented box truck. It roasts twice a week — Tuesdays and Fridays, starting at six — which is why the whole block smells like first crack before the café opens.
We buy from a short list of farms and pay well over commodity price, not because it looks good on a website but because it's the only way the same coffee shows up two years in a row. Small batches, short list, roast date on the bag. That's the whole model.
Roastery tours run Saturdays at 10 am — twenty minutes, free, you'll leave with a cupping spoon's worth of opinions. No booking needed; just show up.