Seattle Coffee Co. (Menlyn Park)

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Café fare, Coffee

0123681617

Monday to Sunday 7.30am to 7pm

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Details

Cost: R40

Food: Café fare, Coffee

Corkage: No BYO

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Owner's description

As the coffee industry has grown we have seen how quality generally gets lost along the way. Producers use poor grade, mass-sourced green coffee that can’t be traced back to individual farms or co-operatives. Mass roasting and operating off a thin base of roasting knowledge drive quality even further away.

In many cases in the coffee industry in South Africa, there seems to be a lack of will to work against these trends, and inferior product continues to get churned out in bulk. At Seattle we try to recapture the artisanal approach towards the craft:

traceability versus non-traceability of crops; handpicked versus mechanized harvesting; hand-roasting versus computerized bulk roasting; manual versus automated espresso production.

This ‘quality at-all-costs’ orientation cascades down from farm to cup. To continue with our aim to provide product and service at its best, we made a conscious decision never to grow at rate where quality would become a casualty. We remain independent of any international parent company and maintain our roots as an exclusively South African, family-run business.

Adalene Odendaal
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September 24th, 2019 at 12:55pm