Where East meets West.
Cascara Coffee Company pours the coffee traditions of Yemen alongside everything you’d want from a modern specialty café. Here’s where those traditions come from, and what to order when you visit.
Cascara means husk.
Cáscara is Spanish for husk: the dried skin of the coffee cherry, the part most of the world throws away. In Yemen, those husks are simmered with ginger and spice into a drink called qishr, from the Arabic for husk. Two languages, one idea: the same cup, named twice.
Where the world learned to drink coffee.
The earliest reliable accounts of coffee as a drink come from Yemen in the middle of the 1400s, where Sufi circles brewed it to stay awake through night-long prayers.
From there it travelled out through Mocha, the Red Sea port that shipped Yemen’s mountain-grown coffee to the world. Until the end of the 1600s, most of the world’s coffee came from Yemen, and the port’s name still sits on café menus everywhere as the mocha.
Aden, the port city on Yemen’s southern coast, gave its name to Adeni tea: black tea, spice and cream, which we pour by the cup or by the pot.
What’s in the cup.
The spices and staples behind our traditional pots and house lattes.
Coffee
Where it all began.
Cardamom
The warmth in our Mufawar.
Cinnamon
A little sweet spice.
Black tea
The heart of Adeni.
Mint
In our Red Tea.
Honey
Over the Honeycomb.
What to order.
A few places to start. The full menu has everything else.
Traditional
Spiced, creamy and made to share. By the cup, or by the pot for the table.
Adeni
Black tea, house spice mix and cream. Medium pot: serves 2-4 people. Large pot: serves 5-6 people
12 oz 4.00 · 16 oz 5.00 · Medium pot 13.00 · Large pot 17.00 · 96 oz traveler 30.00
Red Tea
Black tea with mint and house spice mix. Medium pot: serves 2-4 people. Large pot: serves 5-6 people
12 oz 4.00 · 16 oz 5.00 · Medium pot 13.00 · Large pot 17.00 · 96 oz traveler 30.00
Mufawar
Coffee, cream and cardamom. Medium pot: serves 2-4 people. Large pot: serves 5-6 people
12 oz 4.00 · 16 oz 5.00 · Medium pot 13.00 · Large pot 17.00 · 96 oz traveler 30.00
Hot, 16 ozChai Latte
5.00Adeni chai with milk foam
House lattes
Espresso, spiced and sweetened the Cascara way. Hot, or over ice.
HotCardamom Latte
7.00House spice mix and double espresso and steamed milk. Iced comes with honey drizzle
HotSpanish Latte
7.00Sweet condensed milk, oat milk, cinnamon, and double shot of espresso
HotWhite Cinnamon Latte
7.00White mocha and cinnamon
Iced, 12 ozCafe Cascara
6.50Vanilla cream, cocoa powder, double vanilla foam, and double shot ristretto
From the pastry case
Something sweet, or something savory, to go with it.
Honeycomb
8.00Bread filled with cream cheese topped with honey
Beef Borek
8.005 layer bread with beef, cheese and vegetable
Samosa
4.00Beef, cheese, or veggie
Baklava 2pc
4.00Filo, nuts and syrup. Two pieces.