Melrose Coffee and Wine Bar bills itself as California inspired. Melrose is a family-owned and operated business and the owners and employees are from California. The establishment has echoes of the upscale coffee shops that can be found on Melrose Avenue in Los Angles, where you can get everything from a black cup of coffee to specialty tea drinks like matcha late with rose and lavender syrup to cocktails and wine.
While the entrance to the coffee shop is on Church Street, technically, the address is 245 East Friendly Avenue. See this GDP post from 12/26/22 when the idea for the coffee shop was in the early stages. The building, constructed in 1924, says "Fruit and Produce" on the front as the building was originally the W.I. Anderson Wholesale Produce Company.* How wonderful that the building gets repurposed with an infusion of great energy with owners and employees who are really vested in bring coffee and a place for gathering east of Elm Street. East Greensboro has been adding growing over the last few years. As NC A&T expands and more people move downtown, this growth is much needed. This weekend would be a great night to go and check out Melrose. Their Friday and Saturday hours are from 8:00 am- 5:00 pm and from 8:00 pm- 1:00 am!
Happy Friday!
*thank you to our reader Victoria Tate for sharing that information last year.
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