Palm Coffee Roasters

Palm Coffee Roasters is roast-to-order with no cafe attached, and Camilla is the name that comes up over and over. She runs the personal side of the operation hard. One missed pickup got personally delivered by her, which is the kind of story customers do not invent. People order from across the country and reorder once the first bag arrives fast enough to still smell like the roaster. The lineup leans Cuban-style espresso and South American single origins, with experimental fermentations for the customers who want to chase something newer. Havana Moon is the Cuban-style espresso roast that anchors the order list. Experimental Alchemy of the Andes, Ghost Cat Espresso, and Hayes Street come up by name. Komodo is the light-roast pick. Plague Doctor for dark. The Maria Camila Gallego single-origin Colombian is the one that customers point at when they want to make the case for what Palm can do at the top of the lineup. The naming has personality. The coffee has the freshness to back it up. Hollywood, Florida is the home base, but the business runs on shipping. This is not a walk-in cafe, and customers say so clearly enough that nobody should show up looking for a latte. Home espresso drinkers chasing fresh Cuban-style roasts and experimental South American work will find a small operation that takes both the coffee and the customer relationship more seriously than most outfits twice the size.