Café Topéca

There's a great groove and flow happening at Café Topéca on 5th Street in downtown Tulsa.

The flow goes, as the owners say (and I've met them, they're great people) from "seed to cup." It's a family-run business all the way from the generations-old coffee plantations in El Salvador to the roasting facility and the café in Tulsa. Smooth, nutty taste of shade-grown coffee in several varieties "from seed to cup"! And the baristas are multi-talented, crafting terrific joe while selecting the best alternative rock, folk, and other contemporary tunes.

Camera-worthy Mocha

The groove is all about taste and atmosphere. On the street level of the newly renovated Mayo Hotel, Café Topéca features original art-deco Maya motif tiles! It's yet another aspect of my affinity for the place, where I like to relax on their comfortable seating with a good book, pen, and paper. Many are the posts for this very blog that have sparked and been developed at Café Topéca!

  One of the Maya motif tiles along the floor

Café Topéca even sponsors barista competitions and a University of Tulsa continuing education course on coffee. Classy place to meet with friends, colleagues, family. Café Topéca, the last word on socially responsible, environementally responsible, great-tasting coffee from Latin America.