After nearly 20 years in St. Paul, Kopplin’s coffee shop will pour its last cup next month.
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While owners Andrew and Amanda Kopplin plan to continue roasting coffee and selling beans online and via wholesale, they’re shutting down the Marshall Avenue cafe and walk-up window when their lease ends, they announced on social media. An exact closing date has not been announced but is expected to be in October.
“For many reasons, (this) is the best move for us at this time,” the pair wrote online. “Wherever you stopped along your journey, thanks for sharing a cup with us! We hope you’ll stop by the window if you’re around, and we’ll see your names on our shipping and subscription lists into the future.”
The Kopplins did not respond to a request for comment.
Andrew Kopplin opened his namesake coffee shop in April 2006 in Highland Park and moved to the current Marshall Avenue spot in 2011. During those early years, Kopplin’s was one of the first and only places in the Twin Cities to find specialty or “third-wave” coffee roasted in small batches.
That style of coffee is popular now but, outside of a few places like Spyhouse and Peace Coffee in Minneapolis and JS Bean Factory and to some extent Dunn Brothers in St. Paul, was not well-known or understood in the early 2000s. So there was just as much education going on in the snug Highland Park shop as coffee-brewing, Andrew Kopplin told the Pioneer Press in 2007.
“If you can get people through it and they like what you’re doing, they’re a very devoted customer because there’s no one else that does it. But you have to get them here,” he said at the time.
Kopplin’s: 2038 Marshall Ave.; 651-808-0958; kopplinscoffee.com
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