Alla Prima Coffee Roaster

Alla Prima Coffee Roaster is a specialty coffee shop and micro-roastery at 532 West Garden Street in downtown Pensacola. It was founded by Summer Sevi, a Pensacola native, painter and former elementary school art teacher who once ran a small coffee shop outside Washington, D.C.

The business grew out of a hobby. Summer was not happy with the coffee she could find on the Gulf Coast, so she began roasting her own and giving bags to family and friends. In 2020 she rented a back room downtown, bought her first roaster and started selling wholesale while still teaching. In fall 2023 she left the classroom and opened a café in the front of the roastery. The name comes from the painting technique she uses: alla prima, Italian for "at first attempt", means finishing an oil painting wet-on-wet in a single session. Her paintings hang on the café walls.

The menu includes espresso, macchiato, cortado, cappuccino, pour-over, drip, cold brew, lattes, chai, matcha, cascara iced tea and hot teas, plus house signature drinks and food. Bags of Alla Prima's roasts are sold in the shop and online, and the roastery supplies wholesale accounts, teaches roasting classes and trains baristas.

Customers can order ahead for pickup on the website. Call (850) 296-9444 or email contact@allaprimacoffee.com about wholesale, classes or gift cards.

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