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Sourcing
Beans from three growers we have visited in person. Ingredients from farms within fifty miles of our door. If we cannot explain where it came from, it is not on our menu.
A coffee shop, a small roastery, and a quiet rebellion against hurry — set on the courthouse square of Rustburg, Virginia.
Opening Statement
There is an honest way to make a cup of coffee, and a fast way, and they are almost never the same thing. We opened Meridian on the belief that the slower of the two is worth protecting — that a small, careful shop in a small, careful town is still a place worth building.
We roast our beans on Wednesdays, bake our pastries at dawn, and keep the rest of the day for conversation. The wifi password is not on the wall. The oat milk is not an upcharge. The tables are not a turnover machine. None of this is new. Very little of it is clever. But all of it, we believe, is worth doing.
Four principles · Seven years · One small shop on the courthouse square
Beans from three growers we have visited in person. Ingredients from farms within fifty miles of our door. If we cannot explain where it came from, it is not on our menu.
Every drink is pulled fresh, to order. No pre-portioned syrups, no batch espresso, no shortcuts that a customer would notice if they were paying attention — because we are.
Mornings move quickly at the bar and slowly at the tables. We bake until we sell out. We close at five so our team can have dinner at home with their families.
"The best compliment we get is when someone says our coffee tastes like Saturday morning. That — we always think — is the whole thing."
FoundersJamie Holloway & Alex Mercer
On the courthouse square. Small brass sign by the door. Almost always a seat by the window in the afternoon.
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