"Coffee blended with fruits and flowers and tea drinks topped with "clouds" are some of the fun offerings at a new cafe in Oakland, Olivia Coffee & Flower. The walk-by-quick-and-you'll-miss-it spot opened this fall in the city's Pill Hill neighborhood, amid plentiful clinics and medical buildings. Tired workers looking for a pick-me-up will find espresso drinks, matcha and pour-over coffee, plus sandwiches and Asian-inspired snacks like kimchi toast with garlic-butter-chive spread ($8) and Korean melon and green-grape burrata salad ($13)."
"The pour-over bar features coffees from Ethiopia and Columbia and elsewhere, some with rather exotic themes ($7-$9). There's a Zarza Pink Bourbon Thermal Shock Washed variety, for instance, and a Los Patios Peach Geisha Honey coffee blended with peach concentrate and Sumatra Bener Meriah Gayo Aalamin fermented with powdered jasmine. Some of the lattes come with foamy cloudlike layers, for the meteorologist in all of us."
"There is a modest selection of baked goods, like housemade tiramisu and cookies and other treats brought in from the small-batch popup Chestnut Bake House. Larger bites include pastrami or caprese sandwiches ($13-$16) and bagel sandos with all the fixins from Boichik Bagels ($8.50-$16, the latter for lox). A shop-within-the-shop will soon offer floral arrangements; right now it's open for flower preorders. The cafe is also dog-friendly and even has its own mascot, Gurumi, the owner's Old English Sheepdog."
Olivia Coffee & Flower opened this fall in Oakland's Pill Hill neighborhood. The cafe offers espresso, matcha, pour-over coffee, sandwiches, and Asian-inspired snacks such as kimchi toast and Korean melon with green-grape burrata. The pour-over bar features beans from Ethiopia, Colombia and elsewhere, including varieties like Zarza Pink Bourbon Thermal Shock Washed and Los Patios Peach Geisha Honey blended with peach concentrate and jasmine-fermented Sumatra. Some lattes include foamy cloudlike layers and flavors such as black sesame, Jeju tangerine, rose-cream taro, and iced-banana milk topped with caramelized fruit. Baked goods, larger sandwiches, floral preorders, dog-friendly seating, and weekday morning hours complete the offerings.
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