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Tell us a bit about your business?

Coffee Tepuy is a family business that throughout hard work and deep feeling of entrepreneurship was brought by Yina Suarez all the way from Colombia to Edinburgh.

The family specializes in Arabica Coffee variety, developing different flavors and bringing those unique flavors to the Scottish coffee lovers and transforming the sense of a franchised coffee to a local single estate coffee farmed, produce, sold and served by the same family, having the absolute control of each process and therefore guaranteeing its quality control, flavor and packaging unique to this family.

What makes your business unique?

105+ years of family farming are brought to our customer’s cup of coffee, served by its owner, assuring a care that only an owner can give to her own business. Straight from Colombia which is already famous by its colours, flavors and wonderful views, with no intermediaries and sent by the same family that farmed every single coffee bean by hand, selecting the right ones and making sure that quality is the number one top priority in the whole process. Our coffee is famous for its balanced flavor, with sweet notes, intense aroma, medium/high acidity, and medium body.

Describe your typical working day.

After dropping my little daughter at school, I head straight to my shop, taking any overnight dust out of the coffee machine and its accessories to have everything in pristine conditions. Then I make sure that all the payments methods are ready to go, when my customers are in, it is important to not waste their time waiting on anything, I know by experience that every minute counts in the morning and I support my customers in any way possible to make their morning a little bit better than before they order the coffee.

I close the doors at 2pm for the public and then I stay till around 3pm cleaning and setting everything up for the next morning.

Why Leith?

For me, Leith is an area that feels like it never sleeps, it is so alive and buzzing all day that even in the darkest day a detail on the street, a smile from somebody in a store looking outside, a tourist searching for something to eat or just hot cup of coffee can make your day. I felt compelled to contribute to its culture in its own way and offer my best customer service to mix with its cultural feeling and give the same feelings that I felt the first day I walked through it.

Name three fellow Leith businesses you love to visit.

Sicilian Pastry Shop: An Italian family. They are our neighbors and their pastry is amazing.

A One Hair and Beuty: Veenu is a lovely person who makes you feel good and very professional

Orinoco Latin Food: They have been our friends for years, a similar past to us, through hardship and adventure, Orinoco is a Latin family owned business that pushes as hard as we do blend with the culture and bring only excellent food to its customers