The Rise of the Latino Coffeehouse

Photograph by Raul Romero

When Ulysses Romero opened his first Tierra Mía Coffee in 2008, Los Angeles was on the verge of a specialty coffee boom. Chicago’s Intelligentsia had just moved in the year before, sparking a surge in third-wave coffeehouses. Romero, a business school graduate with an entrepreneurial spirit, noticed an unfilled niche in the market and sensed an opportunity….

Read the rest of my article “Bringing It All Back Home: The Rise of the Latino Coffeehouse in L.A. at The Guardian.