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Key Lime Pie Matcha
Monkey Bread
Curator’s note
Justin Esselstrom built a mobile coffee cart with his grandfather in 2016 on money from commercial fishing in Alaska, launched Genteel that fall as a catering pop-up, and the next year partnered in Jst Commons, a 4,000-square-foot warehouse in East Village. Genteel means respectable, and the fox on its logo, a sign of a challenge to come, is there to encourage neighbors to treat everyone with respect.
The Coffee
Every coffee is a single origin on a rotating menu, sorted into the shop's four tiers from Classic to Offbeat, and the bar pulls a rotating shop espresso, a washed lot from Yosniyom Coffee Farm in Thailand among them, beside a specialty espresso. The teas come through the tea import company of Esselstrom's in-laws.
- Offbeat - Costa Rica, Sonora
Costa Rica, Sonora
- Process
- Honey Natural
- Producer
- Diego Guardia
Plum · Raspberry · Milk Chocolate
- Decaf - Colombia, Medellín
Colombia, Medellín
- Process
- Washed
Chocolate · Citrus
- Vibrant - Ethiopia Washed
Ethiopia
- Process
- Washed
- Classic - El Salvador
El Salvador, Santa Ana · 1500 m.a.s.l.
- Process
- Semi-wash
- Producer
- Mario Valiente and Jose Adolfo
Caramel · Honey · Nougat · Rose
- Vibrant - El Sal. Peñón 10oz
El Salvador
- Classic - El Sal, Finca Milan 10oz
El Salvador
- Producer
- Finca Milan
- Classic - Peru Santa Estela
Peru
The Vibe
Genteel hangs a rust-colored curtain behind the bar, where black kettles and a toaster oven sit under a steel shelf of glasses and the pastry case is a glass box at the end. Across the room a wood bench runs under the street window, which looks out to a white breeze-block wall.
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