OLA VERDE CAFE

Ola Verde Café is a specialty coffee roaster based in Wicker Park, Chicago. In 2021, our founder, Brian, left a corporate career and traveled towards the coffee growing regions of Central & South America. Driven by a passion for the environment, coffee, and Latin American culture, he set out with two main goals: to learn about coffee cultivation, and to establish relationships with farmers. Brian returned to Chicago with a strong inspiration to share their coffees and unique stories with the rest of the world. Not only do they produce great coffee, but they are responsible stewards of the land. We only source from farms that have demonstrated a love of the land and promotion of biodiversity!... Coffee is grown in some of the most beautiful and biodiverse landscapes in the world. A single coffee farm can feature many different micro-climates that must be carefully managed. Coffee farmers inherit massive amounts of risk in an ever-changing and warming global climate. New and..