Enjoy it in the Southtown café alongside Scratch Kitchen bites or buy beans to brew at home. Launched in 2015, its House Espresso was a silver medalist at this year’s Golden Bean competition. White Elephant is known for its ability to customize and create unique flavor profiles for each client (as well as for other coffee shops, like Press). Owner Albert Martinez sources beans from African, South and Central American and Oceanian countries for roasting in their Central San Antonio roastery, which also sells wholesale beans to hotels and restaurants, including Earl Abel’s. Roger Chbeir started this central San Antonio roastery nearly 40 years ago and his sons, Tony and Sami, have kept the tradition going, roasting nearly 3,000 pounds of green coffee beans each week for Central Markets, coffee shops, restaurants-including Restaurant Gwendolyn and Range-and its own solar-powered front-of-house café (which doubles as a pinball arcade) where customers can choose beans to be freshly ground for their coffee order. The cafe also has outposts in Austin and Dallas. It’s all roasted in Merit’s Southtown roastery, which produces thousands of pounds per week for wholesale and use in its multiple San Antonio cafes, from Stone Oak to Broadway to the Northwest side of town. Merit sends its director of green coffee around the globe to work with growers and find the best beans for drip coffee, espresso and other drinks. Meet a few of San Antonio’s coffee roasters Merit Coffee Note: This list was updated in April 2022 to include new cafes and coffee trailers. “San Antonio became a foodie city and a craft beer city coffee was the next thing.”
“We’re in an era where people care about the quality of products they consume,” says Eddie Laughlin, co-owner at Shotgun House. And while more options always means more competition, business owners say the coffee industry in San Antonio reflects the city: growing but still small enough that everyone feels like a friend.
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“When (my father) got into this, the only place to go for a cappuccino was a French restaurant,” says Sami Chbeir at What’s Brewing? In the last decade, Local Coffee has made its mark on San Antonio and been joined by shops like Rosella and CommonWealth plus smaller roasters, including Estate Coffee Co. While the family at What’s Brewing? Coffee Roasters has been roasting in the Alamo City since 19b81, it’s only been in recent years that locals have had their choice of high-quality roasts from dozens of local roasters and cafes.
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