Goshen Coffee Roasters

Pour-over is the serious order. Goshen's Soulard cafe occupies a two-story building on Geyer Ave with a brick back patio, front seating, and a second-floor space painted with a cloud on the ceiling. The roastery supplies its own single origins and runs experimental pour-overs, including fermentation with a proprietary yeast strain and a "secret stash" bean that turns up when it turns up. Ask what is on bar. The baristas (Kenzie, Violet, Mary or Molly, and Arnold the dog) will tell you and probably have an opinion.

The space holds about twenty inside and roughly twelve outdoor tables across the brick patio and the deck. Plant-filled, calm, and built for the kind of customer who plans to stay for a while rather than grab and go. Upstairs is the quiet floor for study or focused work, with the cloud painting overhead doing the visual work that signals you are in the room meant for the longer sit.

Single-origin espresso. A cappuccino with honey and cinnamon. Hot dirty chai. An iced cranberry white mocha chai for the seasonal order. Matcha lemonade for the non-coffee side. The experimental pour-over program is the headline for any customer who came specifically for the coffee. The proprietary yeast strain is the kind of detail that makes the visit feel like the cafe is doing something other St. Louis roasters are not.

The food side keeps pace with the drinks. Lemon blueberry scone, banana bread, fresh croissants and scones from the morning bake. Roasted tomato toast for the savory option. A breakfast burrito for the bigger appetite that wants protein with the coffee.

Coffee snobs after a serious pour-over come for the experimental program and stay for the menu. Remote workers and students head upstairs to the cloud-ceiling floor for quiet study. Dog owners take the back patio with their own version of Arnold. Parking is street-only and a bit of a luck draw, which is the trade-off for the Soulard location.

Worth the luck on a good parking day, worth a walk on a bad one. The pour-over with the secret-stash bean is the order to ask about specifically. The upstairs cloud-ceiling floor is the room to head to if the front patio is full and you want to settle in for a while.