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Espresso
Caffe Luxxe roasts the coffee in small batches on Probat machines.
Cappuccino
The cappuccino combines equal parts espresso, steamed milk and foamed milk.
Curator’s note
Mark Wain and Gary Chau went to USC together, and a coffeehouse tour of Seattle while Wain was at Microsoft convinced them to open a Seattle-style coffeehouse with a European sensibility in Los Angeles, which they did on Montana Avenue in 2006. The Mart room came third, in the summer of 2010, when Chau, home from nine years running global marketing for Bacardi in London, redesigned the former Mrs Beasley's space himself, with a communal counter cut from a fallen Seattle elm.
The Coffee
Montenero Classico, the espresso blend, is the blend formerly named the Testa Rossa Classic Espresso Blend, and the Decaffeinato keeps its character without the caffeine. The single-origin shelf rotates, with a natural Ethiopia from the Kercha district of Guji, dried on raised beds, among its lots.
- Montenero Blend - Classico
Latin America, East Africa, South Asia
floral · dark chocolate · caramel · jasmine
- Montenero Blend - Delicato
Latin America, East Africa
floral · milk chocolate · caramel · almond · citrus
- Montenero Blend - Extra Forte
Latin America, East Africa, South Asia, Pacific Islands
woody · tobacco · dark cacao · baking spices
- Casetta Blend
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ethiopia · 1,500 - 1,950 meters
- Process
- Natural, Washed
fruit · caramel · stone fruit · cherry blossom
- Decaffeinato
- Process
- Swiss Water Decaffeination Process
dark chocolate · caramel · bold · soft · sweet · floral
- Ethiopia Yirgacheffe
Ethiopia, Kercha District
- Varietals
- Indigenous Heirloom
- Process
- Natural Process
floral · sweet · stone fruit · berry · dark honey · sandalwood · sangria
- Guatemala HuehuetenangoPour-over
Guatemala, Huehuetenango · 1,500 - 1,800 masl
- Varietals
- Caturra, Catuai, Bourbon, Pache
- Process
- Fully washed
- Producer
- A collective of small farms from the region
floral · toasted almonds · caramel · sweet tangerine · dark cherry · blackberry · cacao nibs
- 20th Anniversary Blend
Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea - Arufa, Jiwaka Province + Guatemala - Huehuetenango · 1,350 - 2,050 masl
- Varietals
- Blue Mountain, Arusah, Mundo Novo, Bourbon, Catuai, Caturra, Pache, San Ramon
- Process
- Natural + Washed
- Producer
- Monpi and ASOPCE Collective of specialty coffee farmers
floral · stonefruit · sweet plum · pear
The Vibe
The room borrows its character from its landlord: the red-board Country Mart, a neighborhood landmark since 1948, with the counter opening onto 26th Street. Seating is out in the Mart, which is the point.
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