Palace Coffee & Evocation Coffee Heat Up The Texas Panhandle With Big Changes - Sprudge
For one, Canyon is no longer a dry city , one of the last in Texas to make the conversion. And Palace Coffee Company’s expansion from Canyon into downtown Amarillo—only in its nascent stages during our last report—has not only been completed but has already celebrated its one-year anniversary. The modern look is felt in the cafe’s high ceilings and a larger, open floor plan, and the “soft” is owed to the warm wood tones and smattering of heavy cotton Texas throwback flags (including the Gonzalez Flag , the most succinct expression of... And yet while some things stay the same—like Burns’ affinity for matte black everything, as evidenced by his 2001 GMC Sierra 1500 pickup truck, 1971 VW bus (sold to fund the new space), and now a custom La Marzocco GB/5 on the counter of the... Palace has long had a symbiotic relationship with the Amarillo-based Evocation Coffee Roasters. But as they move toward opening their own roastery, Palace has split ways with Evocation and teamed up with Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Company to begin a private labelling program with the St. Louis-based roaster in the interim. In most private label relationships, the company doing the actual roasting (or the fact that a company other than the one listed on the bag is doing the roasting at all) is a guarded secret. Source: sprudge.com
