Lexington’s first Yemeni-style coffee house will open soon, part of a growing nationwide trend of the cafés with late-night hours.
Shibam Coffee is opening at noon on June 14, with a ribbon cutting at 535 S. Upper St. in the CenterCourt complex, a block from the University of Kentucky campus.
Yemen is the birthplace of coffee, and Lexington’s first Yemeni café is part of a recent boom of shops across places like New York, Los Angeles and Michigan, where the movement started and Shibam Coffee is based…