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Have you ever wondered why we bother with options on our brew bar?  You like coffee, but you’re not nearly as obsessive as we (the crazy people at NEAT).  You wonder if you’d even be able to tell the difference between the various offerings if you tasted them side by side?  Well, we’d like to invite you into our coffee obsessed world for an afternoon of sniffing, sipping, slurping,  and spitting.  (Even we can’t handle all that caffeine at once.)  We’ll use a few handy tools to help us summarize and your discerning palate will never approach a coffee in quite the same way.

Who:    NEAT, tasteful folks
What:    1 hour cupping tutorial and coffee tasting
Where:    NEAT (20 Grove Street)
When:    Saturday March 5th @ 1PM
Price:    $10 (includes a drink post-cupping)
RSVP:    info@espressoNEAT.com
(10 person limit)

Be safe but come on over if you can make it.  We have plenty of food, coffee and hot cocoa to keep you warm

Due to yet another storm and dangerous driving conditions, NEAT will not be opening on time and will remain closed until further notice today (2.2.11).  Stay warm and be safe!

We’re pushing back our opening time again…11AM now, but check back here for the latest.  Stay warm and be safe out there!

Espresso NEAT opened a bit late this morning (9am), but we’re here for the rest of the day with delicious coffee and food to keep you warm on yet another snow day

Due to the blizzard last night, Espresso NEAT is closed today, Monday, December 27th.  We will reopen at 7AM tomorrow, Tuesday, December 28th.  Thanks and happy sledding!

It’s back to school already?!

Yeah, we can’t believe it either. It’s crazy to think that it was this time last year that NEAT opened its door for the first time. We’ve pulled over 35,000 shots of espresso since then, and 12 months have flown by!

Like you, we’re trying desperately to hang on to the last bit of summer, so we’re planning to scoop up free Van Leeuwen’s ice cream all day on our first birthday, Tuesday, August 31st. Come celebrate with us and enjoy the perfect after school snack (or anytime treat), and soak up the late summer sun in the courtyard while you’re at it!

Although our first year has gone by in a blink, we’ve had a lot of fun with all of you, our wonderful patrons. Thank you for supporting us in these early days. We look forward to serving you lots and lots of delicious coffee for years to come!

In addition to working with acclaimed local chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt, we now have offerings from several outstanding “Bean to Bar” producers of chocolate.  These folks process cocoa beans into chocolate versus the traditional making of chocolate into truffles, pralines, and other confectionaries.  Our Bean to Bar producers source excellent cacao–often working in direct trade with the cacao farmer–and clean, roast, winnow, grind, refine, conche, temper, mold, and package the chocolate.  

In the same way we seek to represent the best the coffee beans can offer in terms of sourcing and preparation, so do Bean to Bar chocolate makers.  espresso NEAT is proud to offer chocolate from these acclaimed, high quality artisans along with Knipschildt Chocolatier:

Mast Brothers

Askinosie

Rogue

nb: One of the secrets of our Hot Cocoa is that the syrup is hand made from Askinosie Cocoa Powder.   Askinosie is the only small-batch chocolate maker in North America making natural cocoa powder directly from the cocoa bean.  It is not alkalized or sweetened but is very pure–imparting a rich, complex chocolate flavor to the drink.