Inside the brand new Madis Espresso store and roastery in Previous Metropolis Philadelphia. All photos courtesy of Madis Espresso Roasters.

Philadelphia’s Madis Espresso Roasters lately graduated past a single cafe in College Metropolis with the opening of a second store within the coronary heart of Previous Metropolis, with plans for extra within the works. 

The roughly 4,600-square foot new cafe and roastery contained in the historic Curtis Publishing constructing was designed to mix Philadelphia’s industrial heritage with basic European coffeehouse allure. Black metal skeleton partitions and floor-to-ceiling glass panels flood the roastery with pure gentle, giving prospects a front-row seat to manufacturing roasting.

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“Our design inspiration facilities round comfy seating and considerate move, making it simple to come back solo or meet up with a good friend,” Madis Espresso Roasters Advertising and marketing Director Eleni Navrosidis lately informed Every day Espresso Information. “To really benefit from the nuanced flavors of specialty espresso, you want an atmosphere that’s aesthetically clear, comfy and calming.”

The cafe area is crammed with elaborate ending touches, together with customized millwork throughout the partitions and ceiling, and precision metalwork all through. A number of of the inside particulars particularly relate to the manufacturing and brewing of espresso. 

“One element we’re particularly happy with is the lit cutout beneath our espresso machine, which showcases the water filtration system, an usually neglected however essential a part of how espresso is crafted,” Navrosidis stated.

Madis Espresso Roasters was based in 2022, opening its inaugural cafe close to the campus of Drexel College. Robust assist from locals and college students fueled the 2024 growth to Previous Metropolis.

Navrosidis, who represents the youthful era of a small possession crew, described the model as each “people-first” and “design-forward.”

“The Drexel cafe is heat and intimate. The Curtis [cafe] is ethereal and production-forward,” she stated. “But each share the identical design DNA: our signature palette of espresso brown, cream woodwork [and] metallic, and a concentrate on expertise, high quality and craft.”

Each places supply related menus, with quite a few gluten-free and vegan choices. This summer season’s 100% vegan drink lineup ranges from classics like an espresso tonic to Instagram-worthy concoctions such because the Blue Zone (oat milk and blue spirulina) and the Blush Latte (almond milk, dragonfruit and pink papaya).

The menus do diverge sometimes to attraction to the totally different native crowds. Navrosidis stated the Lancaster Ave. cafe close to Drexel caters to school college students with enjoyable grab-and-go gadgets like stuffed doughnuts, whereas the Curtis cafe affords “a extra numerous and refined choice, tailor-made to the encompassing mixture of workplace employees, native residents and households having fun with the close by parks and cultural establishments.”

Contained in the Curtis, espresso is floor by both a regular Victoria Arduino Mythos MY75 or the World Barista Championship Athens 2023 mannequin earlier than extraction by a Victoria Arduino Black Eagle Maverick espresso machine. A Mahlkönig EK43 grinds for Fetco batch brews. All coffees are roasted in-house on a Ghibli R15 machine. 

Navrosidis stated the corporate at present turns to importers reminiscent of Volcafe and Cafe Imports for high-quality inexperienced coffees, whereas establishing a direct-trade relationship with a women-led farm in Colombia. 

“The response from the group has been wonderful,” Navrosidis stated. “We serve [Curtis] constructing tenants on daily basis and in addition cater to the encompassing workplace groups, so there’s at all times a pleasant steadiness of acquainted faces and new ones strolling by our doorways.”

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As the brand new cafe settles into its rhythm, Navrosidis stated the corporate has quick plans to develop private and non-private training and coaching programming on the roastery, which can additionally quickly discover a heavier manufacturing load with further Madis openings. 

“We’ll launch a 3rd cafe in Middle Metropolis this fall and a fourth in Northern Liberties Philadelphia someday in late 2025,” Navrosidis stated. “Lengthy-term, the imaginative and prescient is a good regional footprint of cafes that double as group areas, plus a coaching lab to mentor new baristas and residential brewers.”

Madis Espresso Roasters on the Curtis constructing is situated at 601 Walnut St #L10 in Philadelphia, PA. 

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