Stay awake this quarantine with our new Bunker Blend, now available in a Rations Box. This box provides you or your loved ones the main essentials: coffee and toilet paper, of course. Now you can hunker down in your bunker knowing you have everything you need.

Our new Bunker Blend is the perfect solution for your coffee stockpiling needs. A tasty blend of Guatemala, Honduras and Burundi origins, this coffee provides a smooth cocoa nib body with a stone fruit juiciness. It is approachable but not boring, so it is sure to please any coffee-drinker you’ve found yourself quarantined with.

Lockdown obviously has changed all of our lives in a lot of ways, but the good news is that outside is still open! It isn’t exaclty atypical for me to spend lots of time outside but in this season the time feels even more important. There’s something about the fresh air and the open spaces that feels so safe and comforting. In the midst of the lockdown the outdoors is the gift we didn’t know we needed.

Coffee—and in particular a coffee shop—brings together people quite unlike most other things. We see people meet in the cafe and later become friends. They bond over their dogs or their cars or their drinks. Our cafe is a place of connection and reconnection; old friends get together to catch up, spouses sip their lattes on a nice morning away from the house.

Many of you have been wondering what the recent ban of restaurants and bars in Illinois has meant for Tala. We are making changes to abide by this law, and continuing to be flexible and creative as we approach new ways to serve our customers through this health crisis.