Nice Coffee
Curator’s note
Nice spent its first years as a beautiful courtyard with coffee in it, and then in 2024 the team started roasting. Four single-origin bags now print farm, producer, village, cultivar, altitude and process, and the Colombia Pink Bourbon carries its lot number and its Auction for Peace reference.
Nice's everyday espresso, a medium roast washed blend of El Salvador, Peru and Ethiopia coffee with dark chocolate, nutty and raisin notes.
The coffee
Roasting runs on a 15-kilo Mill City machine in Inglewood under head roaster Doug Meils, who came through Intelligentsia, Handsome and Tectonic. Four live single-origin bags ($10 to $26.25) name farm, producer, village, cultivar, altitude and process (the Colombia Pink Bourbon even prints a lot number and its Auction for Peace 2025 reference), though roast dates are not printed anywhere.
- Nice Espresso Blend
- Medium
- Washed
Dark Chocolate · Nutty · Raisin
- Nice Dark Roast
- Medium
- Washed
Dark Chocolate · Nutty · Raisin
- Super Bloom
- Washed
Juicy · Floral · Sweet
- Colombia - Robinson Mosquera Campo - Pink Bourbon
- Pink Bourbon
- Washed
- La Floresta, Robinson Mosquera Campo
- Ethiopia - Shakiso Jigesa
- Ethiopia landraces
- Washed
- Honduras - El Cielito - Job Neel Cáceres Diaz
- Pacas, IH90
- Washed
- El Cielito, Job Neel Cáceres Diaz
- Rwanda - Shima
- Medium
- Red Bourbon
- Washed
- Rwamatamu
Citrus · Honey · Cranberry
- Nice Decaf - Colombia - Single-Origin
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Washed and Decaffeinated
- Various smallholder farmers
The room
Gensler drew the architecture and AIS Industries built the steel, and the room has been open since 2017. It is a courtyard bar rather than a storefront: the counter reads as a built object in an open plaza, not a shop behind glass.
The vibe
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People
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