freshly roasted liquid intelligence

Roasting artisan coffee in Cleveland, Ohio for 20 years, we have four coffee sanctuaries throughout the city, and a roastery in the heart of downtown. We see it as our job to champion great coffee here in Cleveland, and to build coffee culture and community in the process.  We believe it IS possible to save the world by intelligently serving a great cup of coffee!...and, i think, we are...one cup at a time. =)

For a number of years we have been crowned Cleveland's "Best Cup of Coffee" by Cleveland Scene and Northern Ohio Live magazines, received a SCAA Golden Cup Award, and we've been featured in many local and national periodicals. We strive to make sure our coffee is great, our service is memorably friendly, and the atmosphere feels like a place where "Something Might Happen." If you step into any of our cafes you can watch our (sassy!) baristas pouring fresh French Press, brewing Fair Trade coffees, and pulling expertly-prepared espresso.

We supply coffee to many offices, restaurants, cafes and coffee shops around Cleveland, as well as northeast Ohio, and we also ship across the country for our wholesale accounts.  We have held SCAA skill building workshops, latte art throwdowns, coffee blending workshops, roastery tours, weekly coffee cuppings, espresso happy-hours(!), bike scavenger hunts, open-mic nights, and!...we are dog-friendly. =) And one of our favorite charitable organizations is Cafe Femenino.

In 2010, we switched to biodegradable to-go cups at all of our cafes and operations...the only cafe business in Cleveland using this model!  We partner with local company (Rosby Resource Recycling) to compost not only these cups and lids, but also approximately 40% of Phoenix Coffee’s total solid waste output, which includes coffee grounds, tea leaves, food scraps and cream cartons. Our new cups were painstakingly designed to be unique, colorful, and playful. The cups feature hand-crafted illustrations of iconic Phoenix regular customers and our staff along with fun quotes and trivia. Our cups show the world that sustainable products need not be generic and boring.

What else? ... Cool Merch? Yup. Machine maintenance? Yup. Refurbished equipment? Yup. Catering? Yup! Fundraising? Oh Yeah! Professional barista training? Mos Def!

 At Phoenix we are proud of our achievements over the many years, but really, at the end of the day, it's STILL all about doing the best we can in everything we do. And that starts with the first cup of freshly brewed java...at 6am! (yikes!)