Independent coffee shops with specialty brews are springing up throughout the core of the city, but you’ve got to go to them.
Now, a local entrepreneur will come to you with top-notch coffee choices, setting up his pop-up cafe in your office, shop or business incubator.
Steve Moyer, a certified management accountant by day and coffee obsessive by night, has created Nomad Espresso to supply public events, smaller festivals, private parties, and catered gigs with something much more than a carafe of pre-brewed coffee confined for hours in a dispiriting pump carafe. He’s also hoping that his mobile espresso cart will be a way for niche businesses such as galleries and independent retailers to increase their foot traffic and profile in the community.
“I’ve always been into coffee,” says Moyer, 29. “With specialty coffee coming to Edmonton with places like Transcend, I really got into home brewing, and my love of it grew from there. This is a passion project, but I’m hoping to turn it into a good little business.”
Moyer trained with Peter West at The Coffee Bureau, and his cart was hand-crafted by the local woodwork design company, Oliver Apt. He gets his coffee from the respected Vancouver roaster, 49th Parallel, as well as from Transcend here in Edmonton. Last week was the first outing for the new coffee pop-up; Moyer set up Monday to Friday during office hours at The Drawing Room, a work collective and exhibition space at 10253-97 St.
For information on Nomad Espresso, call Moyer at 780-919-3575, or go to his website at nomadespresso.ca or check out his Facebook page.
