The Maplewood coffee shop, Livingroom, which opened in December 2014, has a new coffee roaster; upgrading from being able to roast two pounds to 20 pounds at a time, according to manager and baker Nate Larson.
Sauce Magazine named Livingroom the seventh-best restaurant in St. Louis this year. “We thought we were just a coffee shop,” Larson said. “It’s unexpected and really awesome to be on that list with all those people.”
He said their old coffee roaster was an air roaster, similar to a pop-corn popper. “This is obviously much higher-end. We’ve been waiting for this for four months.”
“It’s going to allow us to get in the game with LaCosecha and guys like that who are doing larger amounts for bigger clients,” Larson said. “Temperature, speed of the fan, everything can be controlled and manipulated through the roast, so everything we are making now will hopefully be even better than before.”
Chris Phillips is the roaster, and he’s on vacation in Colorado now. “He’s the one that knows every specification, and this is his thing, and he can’t be here,” Larson said.
