Scout Opens Massive Central Coast Cafe, Bakery and HoneyCo RoasteryDaily Espresso Information via Roast Mag

Within the new Scout Espresso and HoneyCo Espresso Roasters flagship in Morro Bay, California. All photographs courtesy of Scout Espresso.

Extra then a decade of native espresso industry reconnaissance has resulted in the hole of Scout Espresso‘s flagship cafe and bakery alongside California’s Central Coast. 

Occupying two tales and greater than 6,000 sq. ft in Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County, the brand new location could also be the brand new house of Scout’s sibling emblem, HoneyCo Espresso Roasters, in addition to a bakery. 

In renovating a former dreary Financial institution of The usa construction for the mission, Scout and HoneyCo Co-Founders Sara and Jon Peterson added as a lot gentle as imaginable, construction in new home windows. Colours and fabrics similar to tan and white tiles, herbal wooden and inexperienced cupboards have been decided on to recall the encircling space’s dunes, plants and ocean sky. 

“We needed to create an inspiring area that felt glad, but soulful and visually attention-grabbing,” Sara Peterson advised Day by day Espresso Information. “We all the time love to have a mixture of business and homey, herbal and textured, and the entire really feel and colour palette is encouraged via the coast.”

The impartial colours additionally force consideration to the bar, the place Mahlkönig E80 GBW grinders are paired with a 3-group Los angeles Marzocco PB AV coffee system. Marco SP9 pourover modules stay unmarried cup brews constant, whilst batches of drip espresso and more than a few flavors of slushy drinks are made on Fetco apparatus.

Sara Peterson mentioned the Scout Espresso Slushy “tastes identical to melted espresso ice cream.” The drink is a part of a people-pleasing menu of beverages that’s set to amplify over the years. 

“Accessibility used to be an enormous motivator for our complete industry,” Peterson mentioned. “Once we began Scout, we have been in point of fact creating a stand to serve nice espresso in some way that put carrier first, and that integrated how we’d roast and promote our espresso, as neatly.”

A 35-kilo Loring Kestrel roaster is on show via glazed glass. Peterson mentioned they hope the transparency of the brand new store is helping force house the bond between the roasting and retail manufacturers.

“You’ll seize a espresso within the cafe at Scout, however pick out up a bag of beans and spot that it’s roasted proper right here,” mentioned Peterson. “There’s intent and craft to all that we do, and we wish the design of the distance to make you are feeling that.”

In an adjacent area, buyer may additionally see baggage of Central Milling flour on a dunnage rack out of doors the roughly 2,000-square-foot bakery, which seems each candy and savory baked items. The brand new facility has additionally opened the door to laminated pastry. 

“We’ve all the time baked from scratch however by no means had the distance to do croissant,” mentioned Peterson.

Along with masses of things made contemporary for day-to-day supply to all Scout cafes, area ciabatta and focaccia are extensively utilized for contemporary and grab-and-go sandwiches within the cafe.

Sizzling breakfast plates are coming quickly for diners, with seating both at a “thick and chunky” group desk, alongside a window counter, at four-top sandblasted marble tables or on a caramel-colored leather-based banquette at the back of oak-surfaced two-top tables.

The Petersons, each alums of Santa Cruz-based Verve Espresso Roasters opened their first Scout espresso store in January 2014. HoneyCo Espresso Roasters introduced precisely 365 days later. 

“We have been very early in figuring out how polarizing area of expertise espresso used to be turning into for shoppers again in 2014, and evolved our coffees served on drip at Scout to suit a center floor,” mentioned Peterson. “Those blends were very a hit for us, each in retail outlets and on-line, and whilst it received’t be the easiest espresso for any individual who needs one thing on both excessive fringe of the spectrum, the vast majority of our consumers in point of fact appear to acknowledge our blends as strangely candy, blank, with great acidity whilst staying very drinkable and nonetheless tasting ‘like espresso.’”

In January of 2016 got here the second one cafe, which housed a bakery to serve each stores and to ease the lengthy traces constantly forming on the first bar. A certified Scout Espresso location additionally operates at the Cal Poly campus.

With the latest and largest Scout store freshly open, Peterson mentioned the non permanent center of attention might be on refining operations, whilst the corporate maintains a broader center of attention on serving to convey extra high quality area of expertise espresso to extra humans. 

“We’d like to amplify extra on-line, and in finding tactics to provide the Scout revel in to people who can’t make it out to the coast,” mentioned Peterson. “We also are searching for tactics to assist others alongside the business trip, now not that we have got all of it found out, however what now we have discovered to this point, we’d like to go alongside.”

Scout Espresso is positioned at 390 Morro Bay Blvd. in Morro Bay. Inform DCN’s editors about your new espresso store or roastery right here.