by Julia Sundstrom
The Best Slope Coffee Co. is certainly a must for any coffee lovers and fanatics because of the rich abundant flavors offered.
Best Slope Coffee Co. has hit the ground running on the Western Slope and taken off with fresh in-house roasted coffee and homemade pastries. It’s the trendiest little coffee shop around town and throughout the Valley, but is perfect for everyone and not just “hipsters” or people picked out from a magazine. It’s a place that bicyclists ride to enjoy their morning cup of coffee.
It opened its doors this summer on June 21. The coffee shop is located in Fruita right behind Hot Tomato. It is a co-owned partnership by Tom Griffith and Anne Keller, who are the co-owners of Hot Tomato.
What is different about Best Slope Coffee Co? Well for starters, this company offers a variety of brewing methods, creates their own flavors and actually roasts their own coffee beans.
“What makes us different than everyone else is well — we roast our own beans and we also care,” lead barista Pablo Snazzy said. “We care about the whole environment not just putting out a product. We do latté art and I don’t know how many other people are doing latté art. It’s not just a fantastic product, but a fantastic product presented in an awesome environment. That’s why we are good.”
Best Slope Coffee Co. product comes in all different styles with a variety of flavor profiles. They care about serving an amazing cup of coffee from their home-roasted beans to the flavors presented.
“We focus on brewing methods, which really showcase the beans and that don’t necessarily hide their flavors,” Griffith said.
It’s a quaint coffee shop that has a city feel from the deluxe coffee to its furnishings, but what stands out the most are the people. The coffee experience alone is what visitors find amazing, but adding the people at Best Slope Coffee Co. creates a company that appears to love and embrace its community.
Every time a potential customer walked into the store, Griffith, Keller or Snazzy would chime in asking customers about their day or how they are doing.
It’s a place that treats community members like family. Fruita may already be a small town, but people all over the valley will come to enjoy a delicious pour-over or a cold brew.
“Our goal is to make really good coffee not just mediocre coffee,” Keller said
