We Choose Who We Pour From
Every drink we serve is connected to a choice we made. Our matcha, our teas, our chocolate, our giving: four small producers, each known by name.
Mizuba Tea Co.
Mizuba sources stone-milled matcha directly from family farms in Uji and Yame. The whisk we use behind the bar, a hand-carved Kiriko chasen, comes from them too. Their relationship to the growers is direct, generations-old, and uncommonly transparent for a category that has been Westernized into vague-grade powder.
We pour Mizuba matcha on draft daily, in every Rose Garden Ritual and Blueberry Bog Brew.
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Wild Coast Brew
Micha founded Wild Coast Brew to blend teas the way she experienced them as a healer: by archetype, not by leaf alone. Her blends carry names like The Magician, The Heroine, The Lover, The Shadow, herbs foraged and farmed in the Coast Range, blended in small batches.
Our entire 13-blend tea menu comes from Wild Coast Brew. Featured prominently in the Witches Garden tea tasting at the café.
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CatSpring Yaupon
Yaupon holly is the only native North American plant that contains caffeine. It grew wild across the American South long before coffee or tea arrived. CatSpring is two sisters cultivating it on family land in Cat Spring, Texas, restoring an indigenous foodway that almost disappeared.
We pour three roasts: Marfa (dark), Lost Maples (medium), and Pedernales (green). Smooth, earthy, no bitterness.
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Mulu Kakao
Mulu sources drinking chocolate from one specific cacao-farming family in Nicaragua, with a direct trade relationship that pays growers a meaningful multiple of fair-trade pricing. The chocolate is stoneground in Hattiesburg.
This is what is in the Fireside Ritual, the Mocha, and the Hot Cocoa. Once you have tasted single-family Nicaraguan cacao made for drinking, the powdered version starts to feel like a different beverage entirely.
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Mammoth Espresso
Our espresso comes from Mammoth Espresso, roasted here in New Orleans. Every shot we pull, in every latte and every Signature Spell, is their Double Trouble blend.
Visit Mammoth ✦Tomato Club Rescue
Tomato Club is Louisiana's first orphaned-neonatal kitten rescue, caring for the smallest, most fragile cats, the ones who need round-the-clock bottle feeding to make it through their first weeks. Founded in 2021, donation-supported, all-volunteer.
We donate 0.5% of all coffee sales to Tomato Club. Every drink you order here funds the work.
If you would like to give directly, support them at tomatoclub.org.
Meet Tomato Club ✦
Deanna Holdcraft
Everything in the pastry case is made by Deanna, in-house, by hand: scones, croissants, lavender shortbread, brown-butter cookies, seasonal galettes. Her background is historic preservation, anthropology, and archaeology, which sometimes shows up on the case as a thing you did not expect to see in New Orleans.
The baking program runs on a tight rhythm. The case has to be full when the door opens at 8 AM. Deanna bakes something different every day, so the case is rarely the same twice in a row.
Every cup you order here supports this chain
From the farms in Japan, Texas, Oregon, and Nicaragua. To Micha on the Oregon coast, to Deanna in our kitchen, to the kittens at Tomato Club. The drink in your hand pays into all of it.
That is why we picked them. That is why we would rather buy less of something good than more of something cheap.