Okay, now that we’ve been talked about on a few sites around the Springs, let me set some ground rules for you…..
- $2 Mochas, $1 Lattes, and $2 Cinnamon Rolls specials will happen all day Friday and Saturday
- We do have limits: 2 each per person, please!
- To-go and eat in guests get this discount.
- Did I mention 2 each per person? Yes, well, I thought I’d repeat it.
And that’s it for the ground rules. Come on by and indulge. You know you wanna.
See you Friday and Saturday!
YES! Dinners are back at R&R!
Every other Friday, we’ll have dinner service from 5-8pm.
This week’s entree selections:
- Pork Tenderloin ($8.95)
- Baked Chicken ($7.95)
The entree will come with a salad, vegetable, and a dessert.
Dessert will be a Red Delicious Apple, wrapped in a sweet dough, baked, and topped with a homemade caramel sauce and whipped cream.
See you at 5 on Friday night!
Okay, March is turning out to be a great month for you if you like events! Let’s get a rundown, shall we?
- Friday, March 5, 5-7pm: Mike Melton’s CD Release Party. Mike Melton has been playing our Saturday mornings since we’ve started our little store up here, and we’re honored to be hosting the party for his release of his first ever album! Join Mike, Wayne Hammerstadt, and Cynthia Lynn (a violinist with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic) in an evening of music, celebration, drink specials, and light appetizers!
- Saturday, March 6, 9-11am: Saturday Morning LIVE! This week’s guest artist: Dakota Aspey-Vaughn
- Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, all day: Our TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY! We’ll be celebrating and you’ll get the presents! Join us for $2 Mochas, $1 Lattes, and $2 Cinnamon Rolls (limit two per person, please). We’ll also have contests, drawings, prizes and musicians! Come on by and celebrate this great milestone!
- Friday, March 12, 5-8pm: They’re baaaaack! By popular demand, we’re bringing back our Friday Night Dinners! Every other week until Memorial Day, we’ll be cooking up some homestyle deliciousness! Come try out our dinner menu and see that you don’t have to go to town for your date night! Our menu will vary week to week, so keep an eye on this blog, check the Black Forest News, or subscribe to our Friday Night Dinner email list to see what we’re doing!
And that’s just the first part of the month! Whew!
See you soon at R&R!
Everyone give a warm welcome to our newest barista, Emma Rose
6 ln 9.4 oz, 20 inches long!
Okay, one more post about the coffee roasting side, then we’ll start bragging about our café and the bakery. We promise.
We roast all of our coffees on two-pound and one-pound Sonofresco Roasters. This gives us many advantages. Most notably for everyone, these micro-batch roasters allow us to control each and every pound that comes out of our roasterie.
Okay, so we’ve talked about the right amount of coffee needed to make the perfect cup and the cost that cup actually costs you.
Next up: where to store those beans you just purchased.
Okay, I’ve heard some grumblings about the cost of whole bean coffees. I understand. Times are tough, money is scarce, and the First National Bank of Mattress is looking a little low.
But let me tell you why it still makes economic sense to buy coffee by the pound from us (or any other specialty coffee roaster, for that matter)…
I betcha thought we’d forgotten about the website and this blog!
NOPE! Just was busy through the Christmas season. Hope everyone had a great holiday!
Our roasters have been churning out some seriously great coffees recently, including two new ones:
El Salvador Finca Santa Sofía (2009 Crop)
This is an absolutely wonderful cuppa! The Santa Sofía is from a fourth-generation farm located deep within El Salvador. The farmers have won Cup of Excellence awards for this coffee (not this crop, but this coffee) 5 different times–the most of any farm in El Salvador.
Yes, some agrichemicals are used in the processing of this coffee but only in severe cases. Most of the time, this coffee is naturally fertilized, hand picked, and water-processed. The farm is 9.80 hectares big and each hectare hosts over 3000 trees. Even with that size of farm, because of the exacting quality standards the farmers employ, only 16-30 bags of coffee emerge for us roasters to play with.
So how does it taste? The Santa Sofía has a thick mouth feel, almost like you’ve poured syrup on your tongue. The flavors of plum and dark cherry fill your mouth, then it disappears. Seriously, there’s incredibly little aftertaste here. It’s absolutely wonderful, and I urge you to come in for a cup or a pound before it’s gone.
Still $1.00 per 16oz cup; $8.25 for 8oz, $12.25 for 16oz
Ethiopia Sidamo Decaffeinated • Swiss Water Process/Certified Fair Trade Organic
So my biggest problem with decaf coffees recently is that it’s tough to trace it backwards to origin. Most decafs are a mix of whatever is still on the docks or the farms once the majority of the coffees are bagged up. That’s why you’ll see pretty generic names for the decafs at micro-roasters (here: Brazil Arabica, Guatemala SHB). That’s why I was thankful to see that my importers have started using their own stock for decaffeination.
To that end, we present this wonderful decaffeinated Sidamo. We roast it light to not hide the great flavors and it shows in the cup. The incredible sweetness that spills out of the cup is amazing, and the flavor has a touch of raspberry and cherry tones. Wonderful! Tell you what, if more decaf tasted like this, I think the decaf “stigma” would disappear!
Still $1.00 per 16oz Cup; $9.95 for 8oz, $14.95 for 160z
Plus all our other great coffees and blends are back in stock and waiting for you to come try some out!
See you soon at R&R!
Hey all, just wanted to tell you that we’ve changed some things…
We now are OPEN 7-4 on Saturdays! We’ve noticed more of you visiting after 2 on Saturdays so we wanted to accommodate you.
We have stopped our Friday Night Dinner service for the time being. We’ve noticed a slowdown in the number of guests (which we noticed this time last year, too), and we’ve decided to be proactive. We’ll start up dinners on Fridays when the weather is warm enough to light up the barbecue grill again–figure mid-May.
Otherwise all is continuing towards another record year for us! Thank you Black Forest for this wonderful year–here’s to many more!
Thanks,
Ryan