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Spruce Street Espresso-owned Odd Fellows Café opens this month
Last month, we posted about the still-being-renovated Odd Fellows Café (1201 Spruce St.), the sister location of Spruce Street Espresso (1101 Spruce St.). Right now they're aiming to open on or around Jan. 28, but we swung by recently for a peek.
Spruce Street Espresso-owned Odd Fellows Café opens this month
Last month, we posted about the still-being-renovated Odd Fellows Café (1201 Spruce St.), the sister location of Spruce Street Espresso (1101 Spruce St.). Right now they're aiming to open on or around Jan. 28, but we swung by recently for a peek.
The café, a much larger space than its sibling, will be both a coffee shop and a full-service BYO restaurant. A reasonably priced menu, from chef Jorge Reyes (most recently at El Vez), will comprise contemporary Latin food (click menu below to enlarge). A key item to look out for on the lunch menu, meanwhile, is the El Salvadorian turkey sandwich, owner Betty Ortiz's own recipe. Odd Fellows will also sell housemade baked goods, as well as Spruce Street favorites like Artisan Boulanger croissants and Market Day canelé.
The expanded concept, named after the historic building in which it resides, allows them to bring in more specialized items and equipment that SSE just isn't suited for due to its size. One item the crew is especially stoked on is extra-creamy Trickling Springs milk from Chambersburg, Pa. — Odd Fellows will be the first café in Philly to use it. (The cappuccino pictured, courtesy of manager Lori Zaspel, was made with Trickling Springs.) They're wielding a La Marzocco Strada espresso machine, which allows for high-tech pressure profiling, giving baristas more control over the extraction rate. They'll also feature weekly coffees that GM Seth Lester has come across in his two years as a nationally traveling barista.
"There are two things that make a good coffee shop — good coffee and an obligation to foster community," says Lester. That sentiment is reflected by design touches like their lacewood communal table, which will be used for both everyday seating and coffee classes. Odd Fellows' hours will be 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends.
I love the idea of the coffee classes, any details on them?— MLF- Yeah, they sound pretty cool! I know they'll offer a variety for a bunch of different skill sets.— aweiss
- Hmmm... Cafe Volo in Manayunk and the Gryphon Cafe in Wayne (technically Main Line, I understand) have both been using Trickling Springs for a few years now. And it is wonderful.— Bryant Burkhart
- maybe first in Philly for Trickling Springs but have been using it at my restaurant Funky Lil' Kitchen in Pottstown for a few years now. word of advice shake it well, some people have thought it was curdled because of the cream rising— michael Falcone
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