The Chattanooga Coffee Company has opened the Coffee Roasting Studio and Espresso Bar at 2627 Broad Street. A ribbon cutting, coordinated by the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, will be held for the new business on May 5 at 10:30 a.m.
Chattanooga Coffee Company is owned by Evelyn Wheeler and Eileen Mason, who founded the Chattanooga Coffee Company and Chattz, a Market Street coffee shop, in 2002. The enterprise received the Chamber’s Small Business of the Year Award in 2008.
The new enterprise will feature fresh-roasted coffee beans, roasted daily for many local restaurants, businesses and stores, as well as for Chattz and the new Espresso Bar. The new bar will serve espresso and coffee drinks, along with locally made pastries.
Wheeler and Mason were partners in The Israel Tour Company for six years, offering customized tours to Israel, Jordan and the Mediterranean region. After 9/11 the tour business slowed and they turned their attention to another dream – offering the European experience of artisan-roasted coffee and the European coffeehouse to Chattanooga.
In 2002 they began roasting specialty coffee under the tutelage of an Oregon roaster.
The Coffee Roasting Studio and Espresso Bar will be open Monday through Friday from 7-11 a.m. For more information call 423 266-2323.