In a city that’s constantly adding new coffee, you have to figure out how to strike the balance between coffee nerd and the casual coffee drinker. Camino Cafe – which opened earlier this year during the day as an addition to Camino Wine Merchant – is dedicated to that balance.
When the daytime cafe first opened, the focus was strictly on tea and coffee in the time-honored manner: pourovers with azuki bean milk, paying homage to matcha’s roots in China. No espresso.
As of June 8, that has changed. Camino’s bar is now home to a shiny new La Spaziale. Coffee curator Jae Cox said the addition is customer-driven as a response to Greenville’s espresso-centric nature. Cox has added three drinks to the menu: the espresso sunrise; brown sugar, shaken; and cold brew sour. The drinks draw on cocktail elements with each recognizing a different sort of coffee drinker.
For those among us who are basic: The brown sugar, shaken, a simple latte with brown sugar and espresso shaken over ice. We chose to add milk and make it a latte. On its face, that sounds like something you can make it home. You can, but what makes it better (aside from not having to clean the delicate pieces of an espresso machine or glasses) is that it is dialed in, taking into account environmental factors like humidity and how that may effect the beans…