Baobab & Bean

Maple Row · since 2016

Slow coffee
for a fast city.

We roast single-origin beans in seven-kilo batches on Tuesday mornings, brew them by the cup, and pour them for people who like their mornings to breathe. No syrups, no queues that bite — just good water, good beans, good talk.

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Roast days
Tue & Fri
Origins on bar
4
Regulars
1.2k
Illustration of a pour-over coffee brewer over a glass server, with steam rising

Roasted this morning

Ethiopia Guji · washed

Our story

A shop built on
a stubborn idea.

In 2016, Nadia Okafor left a job in food logistics to open a nine-seat room behind a florist on Maple Row. The idea was stubborn and simple: coffee is an agricultural product, and it should taste like where it grew.

Nine years later we still buy whole harvests from three farms we visit each year — the Guji co-op in Ethiopia, Finca La Ribera in Huila, and a tiny 1.4-hectare plot in Antigua that we split with two other roasters. We pay an average of 2.6× the Fair Trade floor, and we publish what we paid.

Everything else here — the wooden benches, the flowers, the six-minute pour-over — comes from that one idea.

We roast on site

A 7 kg drum roaster sits behind the bar. Every batch is cupped and scored before it's served.

Direct from farms

Three harvests, three farms, contracts we renew in person each year. Names on the bags.

A room to sit in

Twenty-two seats, no music after 9 am, free filtered water and no clock on the wall.

Open early, close late

6:30 am to 6 pm on weekdays, 7 to 5 on weekends — the machine is hot the whole time.

Beans to take home

Roasted Tuesday.
On your shelf
by Wednesday.

Every bag is stamped with the roast date, the farm and the altitude. We grind to your method or leave the beans whole — tell us what you brew with and we'll dial it in.

  • 250 g bags · $18 · 1 kg bags · $64
  • Free grind on any bag, adjusted for your brewer
  • Subscribe and save 15% — pause or cancel at the counter
Reserve a bag

Ethiopia

Guji Hambela

Washed · 1,940 m · blueberry, jasmine, honeycomb

250 g — $19

Colombia

La Ribera

Honey · 1,760 m · red apple, cocoa, brown sugar

250 g — $18

Guatemala

Antigua

Natural · 1,520 m · plum, molasses, clove

250 g — $18

House blend

The Commute

Our daily espresso · chocolate, cherry, toasted almond

250 g — $16

Said at the counter

Regulars, quoted.

“I came in once for a flat white and now I schedule my Tuesday meetings around the roast. The Guji tastes like blueberries. Actually like them.”
MR

Marisol Reyes

Designer · regular since 2019

“Best pour-over in the city and the only place where the barista remembers how I take it. Six minutes is nothing when the coffee is this good.”
DT

Daniel Tantoh

Radiologist · weekday mornings

“The kind of room you stay in longer than you planned.”
AL

Ana Lindqvist

Food editor, The Maple Review

Come by

The room on Maple Row.

Behind the flower shop, look for the green door and the smell of roasted coffee. No reservations — walk in.

Address
114 Maple Row, behind Fern & Field Florist
Hours
Mon–Fri 6:30–18:00 · Sat–Sun 7:00–17:00
Say hello
Write to us — we answer within a day.

A few things people ask

Yes — a Colombian sugarcane-decaf that we rotate every few weeks. It's on the espresso bar and the filter list, same price as the regular.

Absolutely, on the long bench by the window and before noon on weekends. We ask for headphones and that, after a couple of hours, you order something else — that's all.

Within the city, yes, next day. Tell us what you brew with and we'll grind or leave whole — just mention it when you write.

A small kitchen — pastries from the bakery two doors down, plus a rotating toast and a seasonal plate. Everything vegetarian, most of it vegan-friendly.

Tomorrow morning

The machine is hot from 6:30.

Come for a flat white before the city wakes, or sit with a filter long after it does. We'll be here.

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