Dessert Oasis Settling into Cozy New Coffee Home in Downtown Rochester
There's art, music, history, crepes and a new Ethiopian roast.
If the beloved baristas of Dessert Oasis needed proof that they had been missed during their closing last month, their first 24 hours after re-opening may have been the defining example. Downtown Rochester was booming with visitors to its popular Fire & Ice Festival and Dessert Oasis had re-opened in a new location three blocks down Main Street from where they first opened in 2009. On that Saturday, the line for fresh-roasted coffee and hot cocoa (theirs is made from Ghirardelli chocolate, melted in a crockpot) was out the door for four-and-a-half hours straight. "It was our busiest day in history," said manager Andrew Vickers. Vickers said that when he and owners Jamal and Charlene Hamood first saw the new location, in the 300 block of …
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Rodger Mangold (Pastor)
8:26 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Great service and quality coffee roasting at its finest. This is the quintessential coffee shop that big brother coffee chains are running out of business. Let's support this business and subsequently this family. Had my first of many cappuccinos and conversations there this past weekend! God bless and wishing you the best Hamood Family! ~ Pastor Rodger Mangold (Turning Point Apostolic Ministries… more ›