Three-plus years later, that dream has come to fruition.Īlong with other ventures backed by the Allens-including The Foreman, an upstairs cocktail bar run by former Onyx Head of R&D Brendon Glidden, and Doughp (pronounced “dope”), the French-inspired pastry shop churning out buttery deliciousness for all Onyx locations-The 1907 is also home to Heirloom, a 20-person, seasonally-inspired prix fixe restaurant by chef/co-owner Jason Paul as well as the soon-to-open new outpost for Yeyo’s, a mezcaleria and taqueria from chef/farmer Rafael Rios.Īt the center of all this, both conceptually and literally, is coffee. When the Dollar Saver shuttered in 2015, Onyx jumped on the opportunity to develop a space to “showcase all the aspects of the coffee industry… under one roof, from roasting, cupping, baristas, bakers, coffee baggers, etc,” as Jon Allen describes. The 110-year-old building that now houses The 1907-named in reference to the year it was built-was originally a Rogers Wholesale Grocer before becoming a Dollar Saver variety store in the ‘70s faded whispers of that past life still appear scribbled across a green backdrop at the top of the historic structure’s red-brick exterior. And yes, there are Willy Wonka coffee tubes only one slide though.
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What sort of wonders would they employ? Would there be Willy Wonka-esque tubes overhead shooting coffee around all nimbly bimbly? What about slides? Will they have those, y’know, just because? Their answer to how to out-Onyx themselves is The 1907, a three-story, 30,000-square-foot cafe/roasting lab/headquarters/shared space in downtown Rogers, where owners Andrea and Jon Allen-along with a few of their fellow NWA maker friends-house a variety of ventures both in- and outside of coffee. So when it was announced that Onyx would be opening a new headquarters, the question was not if they would try to clear the high bar they set for themselves, but how. When they open a new cafe-as with their Bentonville lab a few years back, featured here on Sprudge-it exists somewhere in the realm between fantastical and extravagant. When they compete at the US Coffee Championships, they are after the big trophies to date, they have two national titles and too many finals appearances to count (across all five competitions), including a staggering total of five from the 2019 season alone. Northwest Arkansas’s Onyx Coffee Lab doesn’t operate in half measures.
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