New Coffee Stall Venture For Local Red Phone Boxes
Amar Cafe will sell speciality Columbian coffee at Turnham Green
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The two red phone boxes on Turnham Green are set to become a coffee kiosk again, with the opening of Amar Cafe.
Columbian journalist Lore Mejia and her husband Sean Rafferty, who met in Columbia in 2017, have set up the coffee stall having been granted a licence from Hounslow Council.
Lore told chiswickw4.com that she met Sean while she was reporting on local farmers who had recovered their land after being displaced by paramilitary groups in the mountain range of Sierra Nevada in Colombia. He was travelling in the area and the couple met and fell in love. They visited coffee farms together and came up with the idea of setting up their own business.
Having moved to Acton, they saw the potential of the two red phone boxes in Chiswick.
Lore said they source coffee from single farms, states and cooperatives in Colombia. "We travel extensively looking for interesting varietals and methods of processing coffee. Meeting the farmers and their families we got to know not just about coffee, but about their lives, dreams and worries."
You can read more about Amar Cafe and their producers on their website.
A previous attempt to run a coffee stall on that site ran into hot water due to non-compliance with the Council's trading standards and was fined and then refused a licence.
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March 14, 2020
