A new cafe-flower shop brings beautiful coffee, teas to Oakland
Coffee blended with fruits and flowers and tea drinks topped with clouds are various of the fun offerings at a new cafe in Oakland Olivia Coffee Flower Related Articles The biggest Cantonese restaurant in the U S opens in East Bay Marin s famed Johnny Doughnuts will join Santana Row SingleThread owners opening -room hotel in Healdsburg Jack in the Box sells its entire stake in Del Taco Menlo Park s Porta Blu sets Passport Dinner finale The walk-by-quick-and-you ll-miss-it spot opened this fall in the city s Pill Hill neighborhood amid plentiful clinics and anatomical buildings Tired workers looking for a pick-me-up will find espresso drinks matcha and pour-over coffee plus sandwiches and Asian-inspired snacks like kimchi toast with garlic-butter-chive spread and Korean melon and green-grape burrata salad The pour-over bar features coffees from Ethiopia and Columbia and elsewhere specific with rather exotic themes - There s a Zarza Pink Bourbon Thermal Shock Washed variety for instance and a Los Patios Peach Geisha Honey coffee blended with peach concentrate and Sumatra Bener Meriah Gayo Aalamin fermented with powdered jasmine Several of the lattes come with foamy cloudlike layers for the meteorologist in all of us Other drinks mix in Asian flavors like black sesame Jeju Island green tangerine and rose-cream taro Sometimes as with the iced-banana milk latte they re topped with pieces of caramelized fruit There is a modest selection of baked goods like housemade tiramisu and cookies and other treats brought in from the small-batch popup Chestnut Bake House Larger bites include pastrami or caprese sandwiches - and bagel sandos with all the fixins from Boichik Bagels - the latter for lox A shop-within-the-shop will soon offer floral arrangements right now it s open for flower preorders The cafe is also dog-friendly and even has its own mascot Gurumi the owner s Old English Sheepdog Details Open a m - p m Monday-Friday at th St Oakland instagram com olivia coffeeflower
