Another shop on the blocks
The venerable Tea Spot has a sign up on the cash register announcing their demise. Sad. The location is a bit awkward. You’d think the ice rink plaza would get more foot traffic but it’s just enough out of the way to be relatively unvisited. The Tea Spot sign says that the owners are doing well in their wholesaling business so that’s where they’ll focus their efforts from here forward, the end of the lease being a good time for them to pull away from the retail shop. New owners could jump in on favorable lease terms (seems like business leases are going ridiculously cheap in Boulder right now) and an already-completed buildout.
So where does that leave the Boulder coffee shop scene?
- Amante for sale
- Playgrounds for sale (and closed until somebody buys it)
- Organica folded about 6-9 months ago
- Sidney’s just sold
- Tea Spot closing
Who is doing well? The obvious ones (meaning they’re always full):
- Amante NoBo
- Folsom St. Coffee
- Laughing Goat
- Logan’s (full all day though?)
- The Cup
- Saxy’s (but see recent post decrying the “success“)
- Starbucks (hahaha) … actually, only the Hill location seems to be consistently busy
- Vic’s (Ideal)
ozofan said,
February 11, 2009 at 10:57 am
I don’t know how Ozo is still being overlooked. It is by far one of the busiest shops around and definitely deserves to be mention in the “doing well” category. We just feel a little left out, is it just because of being out east?
bouldercoffee said,
February 16, 2009 at 2:15 pm
yes. sorry.
we don’t hate on Ozo, we just never get out there. personally, i promise to try to stop in any time i’m driving east on Arapahoe from now on. other authors here are bike-only, so chances that they’ll head out there are slimmer….
BC said,
May 12, 2009 at 8:55 am
I agree with OZOFan. You need to make a trip out to visit them. They have great atmosphere, customer service and take pride in what they are serving. I have been to every coffee shop in town and they are by far the busiest. There is almost always a line and many times it nearly goes out the door.
bouldercoffee said,
May 12, 2009 at 8:59 am
check our more recent posts, BC … we’ve put up a few Ozo posts in the past two months.
paula said,
March 29, 2009 at 4:12 am
Do you have any contact info for the ex-owners of Organica? I’m a writer for a coffee magazine who is trying really hard to get ahold of them, but I’m at a loss …..
bouldercoffee said,
March 30, 2009 at 7:46 pm
we don’t, sorry.