Kavala Mediterranean Grill

Beginning today, June 30, we will be serving our coffee at Kavala Mediterranean Grill.  Kavala is located 1417 West Davis St., we are excited to have another Oak Cliff restaurant serving our coffee.  We will be offering our Ethiopia Sidamo and O.C. Decaf to go along with your favorite desserts.  Kavala has good mediterranean food and now good coffee, go and check it out.

Backyard BBQ – Food Creates Community

This past Saturday, we had an opportunity to partner with Jordan Swim who hosts underground backyard dinners at his house that focus on local foods.  We served some iced coffee to go along with an extravagant backyard barbeque. 

After the courses were complete we set up an iced coffee bar.  We served our Sidamo cold-brewed.  It makes a sweet rich cold brew that is excellent to drink straight or mixed with milk.  Our iced coffee bar included americanos, iced lattes and my signature Summer drink, the Iced Sweet Berry Latte which is flavored with crushed blueberries, blackberries & raspberries.  We had fun serving and sipping…

Our neighbors, Nitschke Natural Beef, donated the beef to this event as well.  Great brisket and burgers!  It is an interesting and very cool thing that Jordan, his wife and friends are doing.  Promoting community and local foods…  He explains each course and the ingredients that went into it and paired the courses with Texas micro-brews.  This is definitely something that any foodie should check out at least once.   

The Dinner Table

 

Buy Indie Wednesday: Coffee Squared

On Wednesday June 10 we were featured in the Buy Indie Wednesday portion of the NBC-DFW website.  It was written by Lyndsay Knecht Milne, who we actually met Sunday at the Bolsa Farmer’s Market.  The article also included our friend and fellow roaster, Brian Daskam owner of Bookish Coffee.  Check the article out.

Celebration Farmer’s Market

We are looking forward to another Saturday (June 13) at Celebration Farmer’s Market.  We have enjoyed this market and will continue to participate.  For anyone who does not know where the market is located, it is at 4503 W. Lovers Lane – in the parking lot of Celebration and begins at 8 and will last until noon.  We will be giving away free samples of our coffee and who could turn down OCCR Coffee?  We hope to see you this Saturday!

Bolsa Farmer’s Market

We are busy with events and we are loving every minute.  We are going to be back at Bolsa’s Farmer’s Market this Sunday, June 7, from 11 am to 4 pm.  Bolsa is located at 614 W. Davis, if you live in Oak Cliff this is definitely a farmer’s market that you don’t want to miss!

Celebration Farmer’s Market

Other local vendors came out, it was a great time!

Enjoying the day serving coffee and talking to great people.

Shannon talking about coffee.

We had a great time at Celebration Farmer’s Market last Saturday.  There was a good turnout and we got to meet some interesting people and let them taste some of our coffee and share stories.  There were other local vendors including pottery, honey, candles, grass fed beef, and many more. We will be there again this Saturday so if you missed it last weekend come and check it out, June 6.  It is located on 4503 W. Lovers Lane and begins at 8 am and lasts until noon.  Hope to see you on Saturday!

Dallas Morning News Article

We are thrilled about our article, Oak Cliff Couple Take Coffee Beans to Customers’ Doors,written by Roy Appleton.  It ran in the Dallas Morning News on Sunday, May 31.

 

Oak Cliff Coffee ‘Voter Card’ Campaign!

We have officially begun our new ‘Voter Card Campaign’ to get fresh local coffee into your favorite establishments.  Last delivery we distributed about 400 of these voter cards to our subscribers.  I wanted to write a brief Q&A to let others know about it in case anyone wanted to get in on the campaign who hasn’t received the cards.

What is the ‘Voter Card’?

It is a card that allows you to have a voice on the coffee that is being served in your favorite restaurants, coffee shops, etc.  Simply leave the card with the server or manager of your favorite establishments to cast your vote.  It also helps us to continue to get the word out about our Fresh Roasted Oak Cliff Coffee.  We have a very loyal customer base who already has responded very well to the campaign and we are grateful!   

Why the ‘Voter Card’ campaign?

As we have begun talking with restaurants and other businesses in the area about serving and selling our coffee, the initial response has been very positive with the people who actually work there.  One of the obstacles that we have found, with some places that we presumed to be truly locally run (but it turns out they were not), is that when the owner or operator is not from the area, they have a more difficult time seeing the value of better and fresher local products. 

Of course, as customers we see the value of local and fresh products, but we do not necessarily have a way of letting our favorite restaurants and stores know what we want when our only option is what they give us.  So, this is a way to give our customers a means to let the business owners/operators  know that they want local (and better) coffee. 

In fact the whole campaign was actually an idea of one our customers, and (although I cannot take credit for it) I thought it was brilliant so we rolled it out as soon as we could.  If nothing more it’s a fun way for our customers to express their opinion in our neighborhood.

I didn’t get the cards, how can I get in on the campaign?  (or I just need more cards…)

Just send us an email at info@oakcliffcoffee.com or call us at 214.948.5559 and give us your address and we will deliver you some voter cards on our next coffee delivery date.  And please let me know if you have any questions about the campaign.

Celebration Farmer’s Market

This Saturday, May 30, we will be participating in the Celebration Farmer’s Market in Dallas, Texas.  Celebration is located on 4503 W. Lovers Lane.  It begins at 8 am and lasts until noon.  We are excited about this event and hope you come to check it out.

Milestone Farmers Market this Sunday

We will be outside of the neighborhood and participating in the Milestone Farmers Market this Sunday, May 17, 2009.  The Milestone Farmers Market is hosted by EatGreenDFW.com and this is going to be a great opportunity to come check us out, as well as other local vendors.  The market will be located in the parking lot behind the Milestone Culinary Arts Center at 4531 McKinney Ave.  It will begin at 10 am and last until 3 pm (or sellout).  We hope to see you on Sunday!