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The Chantala Matcha: Drink Highlight

Meet our new favorite drink to sip on: the Chantala Matcha. The Chantala Matcha combines our earthy matcha with a balanced vanilla syrup and our homemade blueberry-strawberry whipped cream, garnished with freeze-dried raspberries. Trust us, it tastes and looks as good as it sounds.

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Spring Drink Menu 2022

The spring drink menu is always a favorite. With a few years under our belt, everyone is always wondering which of their favorites will return this season, and which new ones will arrive. Read on to find out.

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Coffee is our love token, and we can't live without it

When it came time to craft a house blend and an espresso blend we knew we wanted to exemplify our feelings about coffee in these two staples. We sat around my and Stefan’s tiny apartment table cupping samples to decide our blends. When we finally decided on the recipe, we were all obsessed with the final product. Now, we had to name our blends. We finally settled on what you know today: Ruca and Amoret.

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Winter Drink Menu 2022

We have five seasonal drink menus every year. Yes that is correct—five, not four. We have TWO winter drink menus because midwest winter lasts so long, but also because we feel like there has to be holiday festive drinks for the first part of winter, but we all need a change of pace before long, don’t you think?

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Holiday Drink Menu 2021

The long-awaited Holiday drinks are now available in the cafe. We have some rock-star drinks returning this year, with some slight improvements. Just the other day I had a customer say, “dude I’ve literally been waiting a year for this.”

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In Celebration of Community

Running a small business is always a wild ride, but running a small business through a pandemic has been a new kind of wild. What’s more: our cafe has officially been open longer during the pandemic than not. What felt like an emergency interruption has become our new reality. But that’s not unique to us, that’s everyone’s story as of late.

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Fall Drink Menu 2021

As always, the Fall Menu has been eagerly awaited. We are happy to share this seasons’ lineup of delicious drinks!

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Tiki Drink Menu

We’re celebrating the summer with Tala Tiki Time. Our summer seasonal menu is all Tiki-inspired over-the-top creative drinks we’re sure you’re going to love. Read about each drink and our inspiration.

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Tala Tiki Time

We felt like this summer needed a little something extra, a little more celebration, a little more color and a lot more positive vibes. All summer long we are channeling the chill, care-free vibes with Tala Tiki Time.

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Spring Drink Menu 2021

The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived: the spring drink menu launch. We have some of your long-awaited drinks returning and two brand new ones we’re sure you’re going to love. Here’s to the coming of warmer weather, longer and brighter days and so many good things!

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