214 Foundry Row · Asheville, NC

stay for a cup.

Two doors down from the old iron works, opposite the parking deck. Fifteen feet of oak, a glass wall onto the drum, and the corner table people fight over on a Saturday.

closed Mon & Tue: Wed – Sunclosed Mon & Tue
doors, Wed to Fri: 7:00doors, Wed to Fri
cupping, Saturdays: 10:00cupping, Saturdays
seats at the table: 6seats at the table

Fictional concept · 35.59 °N — 82.55 °W · Asheville, NC

(828) 555-0134Wed – Sun · 214 Foundry Row

93°C · 9 bar · 28 seconds

fifteen feet of oak, and a glass wall.

Everything on the bar is our own roast, pulled on a two-group lever we service ourselves. On a Thursday the drum is running eight metres away and you can watch every drop from your stool.

The café room: slatted oak wall, long leather banquette and round timber tables — The room at 3pm · drum behind the glass, fifteen feet away

+1$ · to swap the house for a single origin

what is on the bar

Everything is weighed and timed, including the batch brew. Oat, whole and skimmed at no charge; we stopped charging for oat in 2019 and nobody has asked for it back.

Espresso bar

Espresso$3.25
Cortado$4.25
Cappuccino$4.75
Flat white$5.00
Latte, 12 oz$5.25

House Ember, or any single origin for +$1

Filter & cold

Batch brew$3.50
Pour-over, single origin$6.00
Chemex for two$11.00
Cold brew, 16 oz$5.50
Cascara soda$5.00

Ground to order, weighed, timed

From the case

Butter croissant$4.25
Ham & gruyère croissant$6.75
Cardamom bun$4.75
Oat & sour cherry cookie$3.50
Soup of the day, Fri only$8.00

Baked two blocks away by Rye & Rise, delivered at 6:40am

Croissants, a cardamom bun and a cappuccino photographed from above on dark stone — The case is not ours. Rye & Rise bake two blocks away and a van drops the day’s tray at 6:40 in the morning; when it is gone at eleven, it is gone. The soup on a Friday is theirs too, and it is the only hot food in the building.

10:00saturday · six seats

sit at the table we grade on.

It is the same table, the same eight cups and the same spoons the roaster uses on a Friday morning — with somebody explaining what they are looking for as you go.

Saturday, 10:00: Forty-five minutes, six seats, at the round table by the glass
$15 a seat: Refunded in full against any bag you take home the same day
Five coffees: The four on the shelf plus whatever landed that week
No expertise: Slurping is encouraged, spitting is optional, notes are provided
Book ahead: The six seats usually go by Wednesday. Club members get two a year
Private tastings: Eight to fourteen people, Mondays and Tuesdays, $28 a head

Ask for a seat

11minutes on foot from the square

the second roll-up door.

Foundry Row is a short street and we are not the loud building on it. If you reach the parking deck you have gone two doors too far.

Driving: Six spaces behind the building, off the alley. The public deck opposite is $2 an hour and never full before ten.
The bus: The No. 4 stops at Foundry & Depot. Two minutes on foot, and you will smell it before you see it.
Bike: Rack out front, floor pump and a hex set behind the bar. Ask.
On foot: Eleven minutes from the square: down Depot, left at the old iron works, second roll-up door.
The door: Step-free from the alley side. Two dogs’ worth of patio, kids anywhere, laptops until noon.
Closed Mon–Tue: Those are green coffee days: sacks in, cupping table out, nobody at the bar.

35.59°N · 82.55 °W · Asheville

214 foundry row.

Bike rack out front, six spaces behind. Dogs on the patio, kids anywhere, laptops until noon. Cupping runs Saturday at 10:00 — six seats, $15 refunded against any bag you take home.

(828) 555-0134 hello@emberandoak.coffee