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La Colombe's First Friday event at Art in the Age; new Center City cafe on the way
Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti, founders of local roastery La Colombe, are hosting a First Friday event at Art in the Age. One problem: As of three hours ago, they were in Haiti.
La Colombe's First Friday event at Art in the Age; new Center City cafe on the way
Tonight, Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti, founders of local roastery La Colombe, are hosting "Un Putain de bon Cafe," a First Friday event at Art in the Age (116 N. Third St.). One problem: As of three hours ago, they were in Haiti, where the thoroughbred Blue Forest bean they're introducing tonight grows wild in the mountains, descended from the first plants cultivated outside Ethiopia. "We didn't think we were going to make it," Carmichael said from a plane about to take-off from Miami, "but we jumped off one flight and right onto another, and it looks like we'll roll up at 7 o'clock sharp."
Heirloom beans like Blue Forest are the focus of Carmichael and Iberti's recently launched Atelier line. (La Colombe will hold court at AITA throughout April to share info on the "landmark changes" to their coffee-roasting process, as well as highlight their current international coffee-farming projects.) And soon, you'll be able to taste it not only at their original Rittenhouse café (130 S. 19th St.), but also a second one on the ground floor of the chichi Residences at the Ritz-Carlton (10 S. Broad St.) next to Freshii, part of a countrywide Colombe expansion that will include satellites in Chicago and L.A.
"We're really pumped about the one on Dilworth," Carmichael says, referencing the $50 million renovation to and greening of City Hall's doorstep. "It's gonna be awesome and we want to be involved." Expect the same La Colombe experience as in Rittenhouse, "but stripped-down. We're removing all that clutter that might mess with the pure experience of the coffee."
The event at Art in the Age tonight starts at 6, with ROOT and SNAP coffee cocktails flowing till 8.
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