Global Summits, Chicken Littles, and Coffee

No big announcements here, just some thoughts on events later this month… This afternoon Alexis and I attended a meeting of local business owners at the Heinz History Center to discuss the upcoming G20 Summit.  When Pittsburgh was selected as the host city for the G20, we were surprised as most were but also very [...]

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We’re hiring

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AMERICA’S NEXT TOP BARISTA. Details - http://21streetcoffee.com/employment/

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Celebrating 2.0 Years in the Frick Building

On November 1st 2006 we opened up our second location in the lobby of the Frick Building, less than a year after starting our business in the Strip.  The Frick Building was an important stepping stone for our business.   First, it was at this time that we started hiring employees (for the first 8 [...]

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Frick Coffeebar 1, Strip District Shop 0

Our Frick Building coffee bar got some media props today, putting it amongst the downtown Pittsburgh pantheon of coffee juggernauts.   The next step is to get our name right… from today’s Tribune Review: Downtown and its fringe areas have a large selection of coffee houses, besides Crazy Mocha. Among them are nine Starbucks locations, including [...]

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Macchiato’ing

This is long overdue but we’ve decided to free pour our macchiato’s from now on.  Previously we were dolloping a tight little cappuccino-like foam on top of the espresso.  We like this drink better- it’s cleaner, it looks better, and has a better mouthfeel.  Smell you later, dollop!

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