Coffee & Crema Downtown Finally Open!
The Coffee & Crema on Main Street downtown has finally opened! April Fools! But really, thanks for the patience. We’re doing the best we can and should be opening downtown in late spring. Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook to keep up with news about our grand opening. Also, we’re taking unicorn applications at the Haywood Mall...
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The last three and a half years at the Coffee & Crema in the Forest Park Shopping Center have been so amazing and gratifying that to encompass them all in a blanket statement or two would be impossible. Having said that, I want to let everyone know how grateful I am for your patience, perseverance and goodwill. It could only humble all of us who make coffee our living. Coffee & Crema is not the building, the chairs or the color of the cups in which we drink our coffee. It’s the people that enter the building, sit...
read moreLatte Art Hoedown
The year’s final Latte Art Hoedown has finally arrived! We haven’t thrown a Latte Art Hoedown for several months now, devoting ourselves to the Odd Cup Out competitions. But we want to finish the year off with an aesthetically pleasing, symmetrical, well-contrasted BANG. Of course, that means latte art, that means free drinks and lots of prizes. Since the first ever latte art hoedown started with a coffee siphon as the grand prize I think it appropriate to make that same prize available this time too. But there might also be a...
read moreChristmas Music
There will be Christmas music galore at the coffee shop on December 16th (Sunday) at 2 PM. Follow this link for more information, since Daniel says it all so very eloquently in his own, inimitable fashion. I just hope to see you...
read moreArt for October
Lal Ram Sang will be holding an opening for her artwork this month at the Forest Park location. Please come by and meet this month’s artist from 6-8 PM, on Saturday, October 13th. There will be live music. Yes, that means we will be open a little later than...
read moreMore Pressos Have Arrived
New Presso espresso makers have arrived at the Forest Park location. We liked them well enough that we thought we’d try a second batch. In case you aren’t familiar with the Presso, it’s an espresso machine which doesn’t require electricity. You just pour hot water into a chamber at the top of the machine and pump the side arms to create pressure. In it’s price range, there is probably nothing better for brewing espresso. It even comes with a little milk frother so you can make cappuccinos, after a...
read moreNew Hours at Forest Park
Over the last three years in the Forest Park Shopping Center, Coffee & Crema has worked hard to maintain amenable hours for its customers. We have been open from seven in the morning to nine at night, in an attempt to see what the best hours for the shop would ultimately be. As it so happens, the center where we are located seems to quiet down in the evening and leaves us without terribly much to do. For three years we have waited to see whether new shops coming into the plaza would ameliorate the problem but new businesses are in...
read moreAugust Showing
After three years of putting up amazing painters, photographers, sculptors and artists of other varieties, it’s time to bring the standard down to earth for this month’s photo exhibition. For the month of August Coffee & Crema will be hosting Shannon Hudgens (yeah, me) in an exhibition of photographs from the Czech Republic. From the capital Prague to the old imperial mint of Kutna Hora, Hudgens tries to find the idyllic and the macabre in Europe’s most visited city. Its bridges and bone churches evoke medieval...
read moreTraining Day
The Coffee & Crema at Forest Park will be closed this upcoming Sunday, the 11th, while our baristas attend a class for certification in Atlanta. We are excited to help them continue their education and make them better able to bring you the best drinks in Greenville. We apologize for any inconvenience this might bring to your Sunday afternoon. However, our shop at Haywood Mall will remain open for your coffee needs from noon to 5:30. Look for us downstairs at the entrance to Belk. We look forward to seeing you...
read moreLatte Art Competition
It’s back! It’s time for a Latte Art Hoedown! We’re pushing our ODD CUP OUT competition into March so we can have a little fun over the cups. Pull out your pours and bring a little attitude Thursday the 23rd for Greenville’s grandest coffee competition. This month’s prize will be an Aeropress. Be a winner but don’t worry if you aren’t and still want one, because we have plenty in the store. Come out and play. $5 to pour | free drinks | prizes for every...
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