Ecco Caffe relocates to San Francisco
Posted: Feb 03, 2010
In an interview posted at foodgps.com, Ecco Caffe owner Andrew Barnett confirmed that the acclaimed roasting company is leaving its Santa Rosa, Calif., headquarters and moving to fresh digs in San Francisco. The company is setting up shop in the Portero Hill neighborhood and will be establishing a retail presence as well. “We can draw our line in the sand and say how we want to express coffee; this is how we want to prepare it,” Barnett tells Food GPS. “Something that’s difficult as a wholesaler is that we can’t control how people prepare our coffee.”
Barnett also spends time in the interview discussing Ecco’s developing partnership with Chicago-based Intelligentsia. “I spent time with [Intelligentsia owner] Doug Zell in Brazil in 2009,” Barnett says, “and he discussed the possibility of merging the companies and we found a good way of doing it. Intelligentsia offers a lot of muscle, and we offer a lot of finesse.”
—Dan Leif
