09 Dec Holiday hours 2018
With the holidays upon us, please be aware of these special dates and holiday hours...
With the holidays upon us, please be aware of these special dates and holiday hours...
As of today, our online store now offers FREE SHIPPING, all the time, for all orders of $59 or more. Send coffee sets or handmade coffee mugs as gifts, stock up on bulk coffee for your home or office, get green coffee beans for home roasting...
Open House Chicago is the architectural weekend (October 13 and 14 this year) when some of Chicago's most interesting private buildings open their doors to the public. Chicago is world-renowned for its architecture, and for one weekend a year we get the opportunity to take...
Q: Each of these Chicago universities, graduate schools, and related educational institutions is within two blocks of something. But what? A: Our newest location at Michigan & Jackson in the Loop. [mc4wp_form] [caption id="attachment_5226" align="alignleft" width="1000"] School of the Art Institute of Chicago[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5218" align="alignleft" width="1000"] DePaul University...
Q: Each of these Chicago landmarks is within two blocks of something. But what? A: Our newest location at Michigan & Jackson in the Loop. [mc4wp_form] [caption id="attachment_5215" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Crown Fountain at Millennium Park[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5222" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Symphony Center at Orchestra Hall[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5214" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Auditorium Theatre[/caption] [caption...
Bridgeport Coffee is proud to offer an extraordinary new coffee — Finca Santa Elena - Bourboncillo — with an important and amazing backstory, recounted by our president and founder: For years Fernando and Ernesto Lima and I have discussed the value of single-variety offerings. Historically, the strategy...
This year Fernando Lima did some special processing for us of the coffee from his organic farm, Santa Elena. The process is called Yellow Honey. Brief description: instead of removing all the fruit from the coffee seed (what everyone calls the bean) before drying, a little...
The El Salvadoran travel journal of Jesús De Jesús, Director of Wholesale Operations for Bridgeport Coffee, who visited our relationship farms in January 2018. [caption id="attachment_5020" align="alignright" width="300"] Jesús De Jesús, Director of Wholesale Operations for Bridgeport Coffee, and Kevin Melvin of Philadelphia's Greenstreet Coffee. [/caption] Day...
Observations from Mike Pilkington, founder of Bridgeport Coffee One day last summer, I received an email from Joel Hammernick, who heads Sunshine Ministries in the Woodlawn community. I worked closely with Joel and his wife Paula during the time they opened Greenline Cafe on 61st St. The...