Tot Coffee
Curator’s note
Esther Park spent a year building this room with her own hands, and the shelf carries the same intent: drippers, filters and the shop's own brewing guides, sitting right next to the beans. Tot is a teaching bar with a coffee shop around it, and the monthly pour-over pick (currently an Unspecialty and Malic Coffee collaboration out of Korea) is the lesson.
Espresso and milk topped with butterscotch caramel sweet cream and a dash of cinnamon, served as a 12oz drink.
The coffee
Tot buys rather than roasts: Proud Mary Coffee sits on the retail page, and the shop is the first in the US to carry beans curated by Unspecialty, a collective from Park's home country. The gap is transparency: no country, farm, varietal, process or roast date appears on the store page.
- "Wide Eyed" Blend by Tot Coffee
- Colombia washed, Guatemala natural
cherry · plum · berry jam · cane sugar
- Uncle Jose's Zesty Limes
- Pink Bourbon, Heirloom
- Washed
lime · lemongrass · lemon · lychee
- Mr. Peterson's Fragrant Bouquet
- Chiroso, Heirloom, Geisha
- Washed and white honey
lavender · jasmine · white floral · orange
- Ethiopia Guji Hambella Tirtira Goyo, Natural
- Kurume, Dega
- Natural
grape · peach · blueberry · floral
- Kenya Nandi Chepsangor Hills, Anaerobic Natural
- SL28, Batian
- Anaerobic natural
blackberry · cherry · orange · tropical fruit
- Peru Amazonas Luya Santa Teresa, Natural
- Geisha
- Natural
red grape · lavender · peach · bergamot
- Colombia CGLE La Esperanza Buenos Aires, Washed
- Geisha
- Washed
jasmine · bergamot · lemon · peach
- XO Blend
- Washed and natural
boysenberry · shortbread · sweet floral notes
- Warm, Sweet, Kind Blend
- Washed and natural
dark chocolate · marzipan · nougat
- Ethiopia Huke Banko Gotiti
- Heirloom
- Natural
boysenberry · poptart
- Colombia Passion Fruit
- Caturra
- Co-Ferment
passionfruit · green tea · honey
- Ghost Rider Blend
- Natural
milk chocolate · red grape · blueberry · syrupy
- Humbler Blend
- Mixed process
chocolate fudge · caramel · date · syrupy
- Angel Wings Blend
- Washed
caramel · orange citrus · stone fruit · buttery
The room
Esther Park spent a year planning, designing and building this room herself, and what she built is deliberately plain: clean lines, spacious, warmth carried by texture instead of decoration. Free books on the shelf and dog treats at the counter are the only soft edges in a room that otherwise holds very still.
The vibe
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People
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