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LIFESTYLE
Coffee
By Julie Catalano
Here’s a fun fact for Texans: HINEE GOURMET COFFEE,
After crude oil, coffee is the HELOTES
most traded commodity on the
planet. More than 400 billion 210.695.2000 • HINEEGOURMETCOFFEE.COM
cups are downed worldwide, Photography, Courtesy of Hinee Gourmet Coffee
with Americans consuming 350
million of those. No stats on “I like to say we’re Everyman’s coffee shop,” says Jeff Marsh, co-owner
Texas, but considering the with wife Mary. “We’re small, very customer focused and rely totally on
hundreds of independent cof- customer feedback.” The cozy shop — sandwiched between a donut
shop and a hair salon—makes for lively conversation sometimes. “If you
fee shops, bars and roasters don’t know someone when you walk in, you’ll probably know someone
around—with more on the when you walk out,” says Marsh, although others choose the shop for
way—we are holding our alone time or computer time. Some “fairly unique flavored coffees” bring
own with the best of them. customers back, says Marsh, to see what they come up with next. They
From comforting ritual to still rotate the first two they ever brought in—jalapeno coconut and
grab-and-go, coffee fuels maple bacon coffee. “Our whole approach is that we’re not brain surgery.
millions of Central Texans. People who come in ought to have a positive, fun experience. That’s what
Here are just a few people, we try to do, with an outstanding barista staff that is second to none.”
And about that name: “It comes from an old radio series, a vignette that
places and things on your revolved around Hiney Winery. People still talk about it, so we’ve had fun
journey to the perfect cup. with it. Our motto is ‘Funny name, serious coffee. No ifs, ands, or butts.’”
Open daily.
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