Kevin Pedeaux develops every Coast Roast blend himself, and the three signature blends served at CR Coffee each have a distinct purpose and personality. After years of creating blends for wholesale customers, Kevin built these three specifically for the shops.
Streetcar is the medium roast — named for the iconic New Orleans streetcar. It is smooth, balanced, and surprisingly rich-bodied for a medium roast. Kevin describes it as having an orange juice brightness — a bright acidity that makes it a natural breakfast coffee. It was the first new blend Kevin created from scratch in years, after over a decade of building blends for other customers. It is the all-around, every-day coffee.
French Roast became CR Coffee's unexpected star. Before COVID, lighter and medium roasts were the best sellers. During the pandemic, French Roast took off — to the point where it was hard to keep in stock. It is not as dark as the name suggests. Kevin roasts it deep enough to develop a smoky character but keeps more smoke in the blend than other coffees. The smoke hits your nose first and fools your brain into thinking it is darker than it is. For people who want their coffee to taste like coffee, this is the one.
The Roch Blend is CR Coffee's tribute to the New Orleans coffee-and-chicory tradition, named for the St. Roch neighborhood where CR Coffee was born. What makes it different: Kevin uses Nebraska-grown chicory, which is less harsh and more caramelized than the French chicory used in most traditional blends. The coffee itself is a medium roast — lighter than most coffee-and-chicory blends. The result has cocoa notes from the coffee and a caramelized sweetness from the chicory. It is a fundamentally different experience from the bitter, heavy chicory blends most people associate with New Orleans.
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Three locations in New Orleans — Magazine Street, St. Roch Market, and Old Metairie.
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