Rohs Street Cafe, a third place commited to quality coffee, arts and community. Supporting small business both locally and globally with Fair Trade coffee/tea, local milk and baked goods, Rohs Street blends communities thru coffee and conversation.
Rohs Street Cafe is evolving integrally as a versatile community center for students of University Clifton and residents of central Cincinnati. For many folks, it is a place of employment, a place to exercise flexing mind projects, a place for strengthening within a network of local and creative communities, a place offering a quality caffeine fix, a place which houses rad live shows. Currently booking events, RSC offers spaces appropriate for outfits from solo acoustic acts to fully furnished bands and audiences peaking two hundred heads. This venue avers anomaly with two distinct performance environments - the cozy cafe for open mic nights, poetry readings and songwriters rounds and the larger adjacent sanctuary concert hall for album release parties, film screenings and fat shows. The coffee, loose leaf tea and all other products are either or entirely fair-trade/organic/local. The humble staff is supported by a growing team of generous volunteers, all together hustling to maintain prompt service and quality production, consistently.
With some big accent with the cymbals. They got them really caffeinated. Overserved? Oh, I'm sure we have all the time. I've been overcaffeinated of working here, so. That's Keegan Neely. He's the manager of Rose Street Cafe and one of its many resident coffee enthusiasts. Rose Street Cafe shares a space with University Christian Church, or UCC. The cafe came along in 2003 with two main reasons behind its conception. The first one was were working with some coffee farmers in Guatemala, helping them upgrade their operation and just kind of make it more financially sustainable for them. The second reason was at the time, there weren't really a lot of places that weren't bars. He's not wrong. In fact, you can find some of the cafe's neighbors here, here, here, and here. But even though the cafe doesn't serve beer, one of their drinks kind of looks If you thought regular cold brew was caffeinated enough, you have not tried nitro. So it's an iced coffee. It's lightly carbonated. And then we push it through a Guinness tap with nitrogen. So it comes out looking a lot It's going to have that cascading foam in it. Of course, nitro isn'the only thing they serve. You can get everything from a foamy latte to your classic cup of drip coffee. And every cup comes with a story. One of the things we'd love to teach you about is there are different ways you can process your coffee. And all that happens before we even get it. So it can be really tempting to think that we're doing all the work. But in actuality, when we receive that coffee, all we're doing is taking quality away. With every step, we're taking quality away. As soon as it's been picked from that coffee tree, it's at its highest point of quality. So what we're trying to do is just make it suck as little as we can. Buying beans is a serious business. Sure, they make for a great cup of joe. But responsible sourcing is also essential on a global scale. We do still maintain through our roasting partner, Deeper Roots Coffee. We do still have a direct trade relationship with that co-op. It's called La Rima Nier, Mosa Cooperative. It's antigua. And Deeper Roots will buy 100% of what they grow every year, straight from them. Roastree Cafe also sources from places like Guatemala, Ethiopia, Ecuador, S All places located in what we call the bean belt. It's a geographic region surrounding the equator, where conditions are perfect for growing coffee beans. It's primarily grown by people we would consider to be impoverished. And a lot of them can't even make their living growing coffee. According to the Fair Trade Foundation, about 125 million people rely on coffee to make a living. And most coffee farmers live on less than $2 a day. I can assure you here that your coffee was purchased ethically, was paid a fair price for it. In a lot of cases, even more than a fair price for it. And that the money that you're spending is actually getting invested into those communities and really affecting real change in people's lives. In the 15 years since Roastree Cafe opened, they've helped foster community globally and right here in Clifton. I mean, the place is It seats close to 100 people, so we can always afford to have study groups. The community of Roastree is not something that we create, and then we invite you to come be a part of it. It is created when you come and be a part of it. So whatever that turns out to be is what we want it to be.
