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The Rise of the Latino Coffeehouse
Feb 23 2016Photograph 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.
