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Within the new Vast Porch Espresso location in Harrisonburg, Virginia. All pictures courtesy of Vast Porch Espresso.

A former dive bar has reworked right into a Vast Porch in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with the hole of the flagship cafe of Vast Porch Espresso.

That includes a complete business kitchen and bakery, plus seating for as many as 100 visitors, the brand new Vast Porch location follows two years of renovation of an area that in the past had darkish partitions and little herbal gentle.

The cafe broadens Vast Porch’s retail footprint to 3 Shenandoah Valley places, together with a bar on the Agora marketplace in Harrisonburg, and the roasting corporate’s authentic cafe in Luray.

The brand new store in Harrisonburg has “as many home windows as imaginable,” in line with Vast Porch Espresso Co-Proprietor Ryanne Hodson, together with floor-to-ceiling home windows within the entrance and a 50-foot skylight.

“We’re all the time looking to make our areas really feel as comfy and homelike as imaginable,” mentioned Hodson, who led the redesign at the side of co-founder Jill McMullan. Hodson famous that the 2 “obsessed” over lots of the design main points, together with the fairway and teal “marzipan terrazzo” stone paired with vintage-style olive-green Kohler sinks within the bogs.

“All colours originated from our espresso bag labels,” Hodson mentioned. “The ceiling is painted with our Mr. Motivator Coffee bag label. Our quartzite counters replicate our Southern Cut up mix bag label. The patio and entrance of the development are painted to replicate a few of our limited-edition mix labels.”

Dimmable zones of electrical lighting handle the specified vibes because the solar is going down, whilst casting gentle at the ash picket surfaces at the store’s bar entrance, benches and tables.

Throughout the light-filled area, visitors can make a choice any selection of recent pastries created by way of head baker Kat Martin within the 500-square-foot kitchen, whilst a separate meals menu led by way of McMullan contains pieces equivalent to biscuits, egg dishes and grain bowls within the morning, adopted by way of noon choices equivalent to salads and crowned toasts.

Beer and wine is designed to play well with different menu pieces equivalent to beet carpaccio, arancini, cheese plates and extra, whilst kitchen supervisor Maria Cooper assists in keeping the operations flowing all the way through the day.

“They took what labored at our Luray cafe — baking biscuits from scratch, distinctive open confronted toasts, recent baked pastries, made to reserve parfaits — and expanded on that,” Hodson mentioned. “We needed to proceed our mantra of increased however obtainable meals and occasional.”

At the latter entrance, beans destined for all Vast Porch places proceed to be roasted on a 15-kilo Renegade gadget in Luray that has been an increasing number of busy with wholesale requests.

“After renovating the brand new cafe for the closing 12 months, we’re within the means of upping our wholesale recreation on the roastery, hoping to greater than double our roasting quantity this 12 months by myself,” mentioned Hodson. “We’ve got the capability and the distance to do it.”

The brand new Vast Porch Espresso is situated at 47 Courtroom Sq. in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Inform DCN’s editors about your new espresso store or roastery right here.