Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters is now open in downtown Modesto, in the space formerly occupied by Preservation Coffee.
The shop had a soft opening Monday, Feb. 23, with plans for a grand opening toward the end of March.
Sisters Afsheen Kiran and Sonia Naz are the franchise owners of the Modesto location, a regional outpost of the Sacramento-based coffee roasting company and café.
The company’s name comes from a “fish-shaped confection indigenous to New Zealand given out as a ‘Thank you’ for a good deed,” according to its website…