Durham – 4th Dimension Coffee (http://www.cocoacinnamon.com/4th-dimension-coffee/) is pleased to announce “4th Dimension Coffee Presents a Cocoa Cinnamon EXPerience”, a month-long residency at La Marzocco Cafe in Seattle from September 17 – October 21, 2019.
La Marzocco is a world-class Florentine espresso machine maker founded in 1927. La Marzocco prides itself on pushing the boundaries of excellence in espresso extraction and welcoming professional service. La Marzocco Café is housed in the KEXP radio station in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, where Cocoa Cinnamon (http://www.cocoacinnamon.com/) led by our roasting operation, 4th Dimension Coffee, will be on a month-long residency.
Cocoa Cinnamon is a coffee shop and roastery business with three locations in Durham, NC. Cocoa Cinnamon’s roastery (at the Lakewood location) and coffee brand is called 4th Dimension Coffee.
Cocoa Cinnamon co-owner and 4th Dimension Coffee roaster, Areli Barrera de Grodski, along with a couple key team members will participate in the residency. The La Marzocco residency program features one new roaster each month. Applications were chosen from a “myriad” submitted from around the world, says La Marzocco in their press release, the final group coming from six countries and eight states.
“Our mission of connecting craft and experience aligns closely with La Marzocco’s values,” says Areli. “We are humbled by this opportunity. We want the Seattle popup bar to reflect what we strive for in all of our shops in Durham: seamless workflow, a thoughtfully curated menu and unique objects that evoke the histories of coffee and chocolate and the wonder of travel. The goal is to exude equal parts excellence in craft, warm and welcoming service and the feeling of wonder and discovery, with the hope of turning the daily habit of drinking coffee into a simple beautiful experience of flavor and warmth.”
4th Dimension Coffee / Cocoa Cinnamon’s residency at La Marzocco Café will feature 4th Dimension Coffee in the context of a unique Cocoa Cinnamon popup location in which we’ll meld the beauty of seasonal single origins with the dynamic experience of annual espressos, connecting sustainability through the supply chain to our shop practices.
The 4th Dimension Coffee / Cocoa Cinnamon popup at La Marzocco Café will feature Areli pouring drinks, leading tastings and hosting events. Along with David Solow art + design, within time and space constraints, we will transform the KEXP space into an installation that will play as an extension of our three Bull City shops.
Each Cocoa Cinnamon shop represents various components of the company’s ethos. Its first location, 420 West Geer Street, taps into the tobacco history of Durham while eliciting Durham’s renewed focus on research and invention. The shop at 2627 Hillsborough Road is an imaginary reverse engineering of co-owner Areli Barrera de Grodski’s DNA — Mexican, indigenous, Spanish, North African — and plays out the beauty, aesthetics, and flavors of the ebb and flow of those connections. The bilingual (Spanish/English) space at 2013 Chapel Hill Road explores her Mexican familial roots in its aesthetic, taking on the classic style of a churreria with a focus on coffee, chocolate and roasting, with allusions to co-owner Leon Grodski de Barrera’s Sicilian roots, complete with Loring S15 Falcon and Ikawa sample coffee roasters. We will spend the time leading up to our residency devising a menu and site-specific experiences for what will be a sort-of fourth temporary location in Seattle.
Look out for more details throughout the year at 4thdimension.coffee. La Marzocco will also publish event and ticket info via La Marzocco Home Calendar and Instagram.
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