Pastries help the medicine go down

Pastries help the medicine go down

Writer Hedda Mittner

Emilia Knight of The Gallery Café & Deli in High Street is a business owner who never rests on her laurels. Her café in the courtyard of Walker Bay Modern Art Gallery was hardly up and running (very smoothly indeed) when she decided to expand by opening the deli/bakery, and now she’s expanded again by creating a third leg to her business – a coffee shop called Black Medicine Coffee Dispensers.

This is no ordinary coffee shop, believe you me. The unique concept behind the Black Medicine brand is that of a coffee pharmacy, where the coffee beans are ground and blended according to each customer’s prescription. It’s all rather fun: first you ‘consult’ the coffee pharmacist – Emilia’s son Scottie – who finds out all about your tastes, needs and preferences before ‘prescribing’ the best coffee medicine for you. Scottie even keeps a record for each client so that you can ‘renew’ your prescription at any time.

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