We learned coffee on the ground, not in an office.

We sat on the floor of a home while green beans were roasted over coals in a pan, ground by hand, brewed in a jebena, and poured in three rounds while the room filled with the smell of it.

The product is not a bag of beans. It is that morning, packed and shipped.

That ceremony is the reason we exist. It is also the reason the coffee is sold as a single lot with a roast date on it, rather than a blend with a best by sticker.

Yours Cafe opened at 2619 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington. It holds a 5.0 star rating across 1,000+ Google reviews. People come for breakfast, stay for the jazz, and come back the next week.

Shipping nationally was the next step. The same lot, the same roast, the same week, sent to a kitchen table instead of poured across a counter.