Gift cards are now available through Square, the system we use for accepting card payments. To purchase a gift card, you need to download the Square Wallet app on your phone, Square’s payment system. Through Square Wallet, you can search for dwelltime and there is an option to send a gift certificate. Gift certificates are [...]
Continue Reading →This Saturday we will be serving Arnulfo Leguizamo, the #1 Colombia Cup of Excellence Lot from 2011 as espresso. The Cup of Excellence is a strict competition to select the very best coffee produced in a country in a particular year, and helps recognize and reward coffee farmers for quality achievements. We ran this coffee [...]
Continue Reading →That’s the cupping table from our public cupping with the folks from George Howell Coffee. We’ve always had respect for them as a quality-driven local roaster, and we’ll be serving one of their coffees on bar this weekend. They’re based out of Acton, and have been a wholesale roaster since 2002 — but their roots in the [...]
Continue Reading →This weekend we’ll have a special barside coffee menu. We’ll be offering a barside syphon menu. Syphons (also known as vacuum pots) are full-immersion brewers that use cloth filtration, and they produce our favorite filter coffees — the results accentuate and amplify the origin flavors we appreciate, and produce an unparalleled aroma and mouthfeel. [...]
Continue Reading →After a few days of waiting to receive table legs, we started building the new tables for the cafe this week. We like big tables; they’re flexible for groups of different sizes, and fosters egalitarianism and a sense of community. Our newest addition will be right in the window spot, currently occupied by a long, [...]
Continue Reading →Our hearing before the Board of Zoning Appeal for expanded seating happened last Thursday . The board was impressed by the more than 2200 signatures we presented, as well as numerous letters supporting our petition. The evidence that we provided showed conclusively that more than 90% of our supporters walk or bike to dwelltime and [...]
Continue Reading →We’d like to ask your help on an important matter. dwelltime’s reception in the neighborhood since opening our doors last April has been terrific. We could not be happier. Our biggest obstacle to achieving our full vision has been the lack of sufficient seating space. dwelltime’s lack of off-street parking limits our current seating capacity to [...]
Continue Reading →This Thursday, we’ll be offering a tasting flight of barismo’s Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. This is a lot from a speciality coffee program under the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange. Ethiopia is a challenging country to work in as a company that sources coffee, but we found this lot to be promising and it has been our most popular [...]
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We will be doing a full staff training and meeting Thursday night. Please pardon the early close while we brush up and tune our espresso service. Our espresso service currently offers three grinders of choices for espresso plus a decaf. Some days you will have all three options and some days (particularly late in the [...]
Continue Reading →A gentle reminder that from 9am until we run out of this coffee or close, we’ll be pulling shots of guest espresso KAFFA from Oslo, Norway. Available as straight espresso only, limited quantities on a first come first served basis. They inspired us, we hope this espresso inspires you. Next… the Guatemala Buena [...]
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