Inside the latest Pueblo Querido Colombian Espresso store in Queens, New York Metropolis. All photographs courtesy of Pueblo Querido.

Brooklyn, New York-based Colombian espresso specialist Pueblo Querido Espresso Roasters is continuous its enlargement in one of many world’s greatest cities, opening in Queens.

On the bottom flooring of the 71-story Sven residential tower in Lengthy Island Metropolis, which opened in 2022, the brand new Pueblo Querido store opened final month. It maintains the Colombian model’s penchant for vivid design, but the store blends much more multicultural influences for a more true reflection of the encompassing neighborhood. 

Whereas vibrant reds and yellows, Colombian textiles and even a parked Jeep Willys are hallmarks of Pueblo Querido’s different 4 retailers round Brooklyn, the Queens store options pure wooden slats fronting the bar, slim trendy shelving behind it, and a peaceful palette of pink and pastels. 

“The brand new location is extra minimalist and extra Asian-oriented,” Pueblo Querido Proprietor Christian Guzman Herrera instructed Day by day Espresso Information. “We needed to design it based mostly on [the local community’s] tradition, however conserving our roots with our two massive murals that reveals the espresso course of from the seed to the cup in a extra enjoyable means, with Japanese characters.”

The brand new store can be the primary to supply guide pourover brews, in addition to protein shakes and new sandwiches.

Stated Herrera, “We’re providing what our new neighborhood is asking us for.”

The unique Pueblo Querido bar included a roastery in Greenpoint in 2016. That was adopted by a second store in Williamsburg in 2019. Two extra Greenpoint areas have opened since, and manufacturing has moved right into a devoted 4,000-square-foot facility.

A 20-kilo Mill Metropolis Roasters machine was added alongside the corporate’s 2.5-kilo Diedrich roaster. The ability additionally provides skilled providers for different espresso companies, together with lessons, tools rental, packaging and design consulting.

Providers supplied have been knowledgeable by Pueblo Querido’s personal experiences rising a small enterprise within the metropolis. 

“This [cafe] location took eight months to open, and with the brand new surroundings and metropolis laws on the finish, every thing price 3 times greater than anticipated. It leaves you in a really weak place,” Herrera stated. “It’s been very laborious for us to learn to navigate each single side of in search of a spot to lease, what to search for a lease, guidelines and legal guidelines to adjust to, and many others. The thought of the roastery is to supply each form of service for enterprise.”

The manufacturing facility additionally features a substantial chilly brew operation that’s obtainable to others. A customized manufacturing line designed by Herrera entails 4 200-liter tanks with a platform within the middle to load espresso and stir the brews. Operators use a management panel to program water stream and brewing time.

Pueblo Querido Proprietor Christian Guzman Herrera.

With 5 cafes now working in two boroughs, Herrera stated the main focus can be to repeatedly reinforce high quality and effectivity whereas pushing ahead with in its wholesale enterprise and extra B2B providers.

The brand new Pueblo Querido Espresso Roasters Café de Colombia is situated at 2947 Northern Blvd in Lengthy Island Metropolis. Inform DCN’s editors about your new espresso store or roastery right here. 

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