Coffee Commissary
Curator’s note
A working roaster with a decade in this room, naming farms rather than countries on its shelf, among them Finca San Antonio in Chalatenango, El Salvador. The filter line here is a rotating single-origin drip, not a manual-brew program, and the company's one named-architect room, a Relativity Architects project, is in Hollywood, not here.
A cappuccino infused with the house Saigon cinnamon simple syrup, warm spice with a touch of sweetness.
A moist loaf built with fresh strawberries and strawberry jam, finished with a sweet strawberry glaze.
The coffee
The company roasts its own with real process detail (Maillard and development-phase language on product pages), and the retail shelf runs seven named single-origin lots plus the Commissary Blend, including Finca San Antonio in Chalatenango, El Salvador, from a named farmer. In the cafe, the brewed line is a rotating single-origin drip named by origin alongside espresso, but no manual-brew service appears on the menu.
- Commissary Blend
- Pre-blended: green coffees combined before roasting
bright · structured · sweet
- Decaf Cauca
- Ethyl acetate (E.A.) decaffeination, using a solvent derived from fermented sugar
- Finca San Antonio
- Pacamara
- Washed
- Finca San Antonio, Martha Yaneth Lemus
Butterscotch · Grapefruit · Wildflower Nectar
- Commissary Cold Brew
Milk Duds · Raisinets · Macadamia Nut
- Yinyini Avilez Panela Process
- Bourbon, Caturra, Pink Fruits
- Depulped, co-fermented with panela for 24-48 hours, then washed
- Yinyini Avilez
sweet · syrupy body · clean finish
- Aurelio Especial
- Anaerobic washed: fermented in GrainPro bags, pulped, fermented and washed, dried on raised beds in a shaded warehouse
- Villatoro family farm
boozy tropical character
- Privem Estate AB
- Privem Estate, Patrick and Rita Makundi
- Pink Bourbon Natural
- Pink Bourbon
- Natural, raised-bed drying
- Jesus
tannic red wine · passion fruit · mandarin · blueberry
- La Senora Mosto Honey
- Honey process, fermented over 180 hours using the growers' own cultivated yeast (mosto process)
- Sergio Uribe and Jorge Uribe
bright · vibrant · full of flavor
The room
The owners drew the bar themselves (retro modern, a bold color palette set against a lot of stainless steel) in a room that stays airy despite all that metal. It is the only Commissary with a full breakfast and lunch kitchen, so it runs busier at midday than a pure coffee bar.
The vibe
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