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Curator’s note
Friends since 10th grade, Daniel Dupuy and Ryan got tired of leaving the neighborhood for single-origin coffee, so in 2017 they sold their cars, used their credit cards and borrowed what they could to open a shop in Montebello, and named it for that approach. As Schurr High School alumni they host its business class every year, and they hire from the neighborhood's high schools.
The Coffee
Ground Up buys farm-direct from the Cafe Juayua family in El Salvador, a relationship that dates to 2018 and runs through Finca La Montaña at 1,500 meters and Finca Las Lluvias, and the above-market price it pays has funded raises for the farm's workers.
The Vibe
Ground Up's terrace sits out front behind wrought-iron fencing modeled on the security bars on homes and storefronts across the neighborhood, with long wooden tables against a wood-plank wall under string lights. COFFEE runs down the building in tall letters beside the shop's name on a dark fascia, and inside, the bar front carries the Ground Up Coffee mark.
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