Ethiopia-focused roasted and green coffee company Lucy Coffee (Instagram link) recently opened its first retail cafe in Aurora, Colorado, completing a full circle of coffee and cultural connections.
The new shop envelopes guests with coffee-brown ceilings and walls, natural wood tables and floors, and brown leather upholstery on modern chairs and couches.
A coffee-toned mural showing a map of the Bean Belt with a producer’s hands and a cup of Lucy Coffee fills an entire wall. Centerpieces on larger tables display parchment coffee alongside green and roasted coffees.
“I want the people to see how the process went, for coffee,” Lucy Coffee Co-Owner Mickias (Micki) Alamirew told Daily Coffee News. “The color is a very calm color. Everybody that comes inside feels like this is very warming, like you want to sit here.”
Once inside, guests can browse a diverse fresh food menu that features Ethiopian Chechebsa and Ful plates, as well as panini, egg sandwiches and salads. The coffee, meanwhile, remains 100% Ethiopian, grown on a single farm in Ethiopia’s Yirgacheffe region.
Lucy Coffee Founders Micki and Mehret Alamirew met as members of the Ethiopian expat community in Aurora in the 1990. They started the company in 2018 as a roasting operation, then less than a year later bought a 50% stake in the coffee farm.
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