Hi there everyone. Thanks for all your calls, volunteer work, and for stopping by to see what all the excitement is about. We made big progress today, we passed (with flying colors!) our Health Department inspection. We’re really excited and ready to be open, but until we get our final inspection, the Fire Marshall, we must continue “testing” the drinks ourselves.
You heard it here first, Crema announces Grand Opening January 28, 2008! We’re “going out on a limb” as they say, but 99% certain it’s a strong one. A “soft open” will be announced on the email list, but our Grand Opening is absolutely on the 28th!
In the meantime, here are some tidbits you might find interesting about CREMA:
- Have you seen it? Our sign! It’s truly a work of art and labor of love by a person who is guaranteed many free CREMA drinks. Drive by and check it out!
- We recycle. We are hiring a private company to take our recycling. Why doesn’t the Nashville government pick it up? A tangent we have not the space to write about. We are still on the hunt for a good use of our old coffee grounds. Can you use them? Email us and let us know.
- A good thing to do is support your local Habitat for Humanity store. We did. Every door in our space is from Habitat. And as many building materials as possible were purchased from the local Habitat for Humanity store.
- It’s hard work and expensive to use green materials. So we discovered. But not impossible, even on a small budget we’ve found it possible to think differently. Our counter top is renewable bamboo, we used recycled lumber for the bar structure, and best of all, with every light blazing (22 compact fluorescent bulbs) our total light wattage use is only 250 watts!
- Excited, privileged, ah, neither of those are the right word. We’re uber-glad (what?!) that Aaron Grayum will be our first featured artist!
p.s. please don’t mistake our excitement as boasting, we’re just passionate about a few too many things, possibly.
If your goal is to serve great espresso than you need a great espresso machine. We’re so happy to be the only shop (or at least one of only a very few) in Nashville who have one of the finest espresso machines ever made, the LaMarzocco GB5 built in Firenze Italia!