Thoughts on Cambridge St Coffee House

August is one of our favorite months for specials, mostly because we get to bring back the crab, asparagus, and hollandaise breakfast pizza. While we are really excited about everything we are doing this month, this pizza is possibly our favorite. The crab, asparagus, and hollandaise was actually the very first breakfast pizza special we ran, in August of 2024. But the inspiration of the pizza goes deep into our family history. August is a big month for Carol's and my fami

For a while, I had been hesitant to add any kind of cold foam to our menu. I am always trying to concoct unique and interesting specialty drinks, yet despite cold foam being requested often enough, my standard response is to avoid chasing Starbucks style trends. Cold foam seemed to fit into that category to me. I did keep seeing cafe owners online make interesting ones though. Of these, cream cheese kept making an appearance as a primary ingredient. (I do love some cream

Carol and I opened Cambridge St Coffee House in 2022, but that was not our first venture together. In 2018 we started a dining services business, operating out of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia. Here, we served breakfast and lunch to hundreds of refinery employees every day. We really loved that spot, I remember thinking to myself often that it was too good to be true. Well turns out, it was. And in June of 2019, we lost the business much