Green Engine Coffee opening by Haverford train station
The owner is aiming for downtown-level coffee service.
The Haverford commuter crowd should cheer the impending arrival of Green Engine Coffee Co., a coffee bar serving Rival Bros. coffee along with baked goods and sandwiches, is due to open officially on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 16 Haverford Station Rd. (610-642-1800). Soft opening should begin this weekend.
Owner Zach Morris - if that name rings a bell, it's because he worked in sales for a wine importer, became a sommelier and was education director of the National Wine School and the Philadelphia Beer School - is aiming for downtown-level service at his shop, a former shoe store off Lancaster Avenue.
The "Green Engine" in the name refers to an emerald green La Marzocco GB/5 espresso machine handmade in Florence, Italy, which will share space with an Oji Kyoto cold-drip brewer from Japan. The green aspect also is reflected in an 81-square-foot vertical green living wall; Morris also was an owner of two sustainable businesses - Urban Ecoforms and BioNeighbors, a design-to-build firm specializing in green roofs and walls as well as landscape architecture.
Morris and his wife, Jocelyn, used white and natural earth tones and installed the light marble-topped coffee bar and large bay windows looking out onto Haverford Station Road. There's reclaimed dark wood flooring, white subway tiles, custom wood tabletops, repurposed church pews and a plush tufted couch.
Hours will be 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.