Transcend Coffee to Open New Cafe on Jasper Avenue and Expand Food and Beverage Options
Transcend Coffee Corp.-an Edmonton based specialty coffee beans retailer, roaster, and educator-today announced plans to open its third Edmonton cafe, located at Jasper Avenue and 104 street.
Online, February 2, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Transcend plans to have the new cafe open for business in March, 2011.
"We had planned to open a downtown cafe sometime this year," says Poul Mark, owner and founder of Transcend Coffee, "but the opportunity to take over the Axis Cafe space was unexpected and has come together quickly." Transcend Coffee will take over the assets and lease of Axis Cafe February 1st, make adjustments to the coffee equipment and decor and open in a relatively short period of time. "We're very happy with the location and confident we can bring the Transcend experience to the downtown crowd." The new cafe will be staffed by existing, seasoned Transcend baristas-who have received more than 100 hours espresso and latte art training-as well as some new hires.
The new Transcend Jasper cafe, as well as the existing Transcend Garneau cafe (8708 - 109 St), will also be introducing an expanded hot food menu as well as a small selection of remarkable beer and wine in the spring of 2011.
New food items will all be made in-house by Chad Moss, Transcend's head coffee roaster, new culinary lead and Red Seal chef, while artisan breads will be baked by Transcend's bread enthusiast, Jeff Johnson. The concept is to create a Central and South American 'coffee-origin street food' menu that reflects some of the delicious foods that Transcend green coffee buyers experience during sourcing trips. Dishes like empenadas, pupusas, aprepas, pao de queijo, and the like will make up a flavourful and unique dining experience for Edmontonians. "Of course we will be focusing heavily on local ingredients in all of our food preparations, and we will approach food with the same dedication as our coffee," says Chad Moss.
Beer and wine will also be approached in the same manner as coffee, focusing on unique, exceptional, flavourful hard-to-find beverages that accentuate the new food items and have a story of their own. http://transcendcoffee.com/