Willoughby’s to bring fresh roasted beans to York St.
Coffee connoisseur Bob Williams is expanding Willoughby’s, the roasting company he founded with Barry Levine in 1985 in Branford, Conn., into a fourth store in the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art on York Street, next to the Paul Rudolph Art & Architecture Building. The News spoke with Williams about the business, the expansion and what it takes to make great coffee.
Q: Is this the beginning of a larger expansion?
A: We are not interested in becoming a mega-chain. That said, if the right location comes along we would seriously consider it. The [Loria Center] is a...
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By Eddie Wilson
12:10p.m. on September 15, 2008
wasn't there a Willoughby’s on York Street already?
How did the author miss that...
There's some hard hittin' reporting for you! How about asking him whatever befell the employees locked out of his former Chapel Street branch?
(That said, I am a Willoughby's devotee, at least for their coffee.)