Word on the street
What locals are saying
Tracer Waypoint is the permanent foothold of a project years in the making — founder Gina Cordoba and her Colombia-based partner Eduardo Calle built a direct-trade pipeline from Antioquia farms to this bar inside the Live Oak Hotel, handling everything from bean purchasing to export to roasting with no middlemen and above-market payments to growers. The menu is deliberately narrow and deliberately serious: single-origin microlots — Gesha, Chiroso, Bourbon Cidra — pulled as espresso, V60, or cold brew, with flight tastings that make Colombian provenance the entire point. For a city full of competent third-wave coffee, Tracer is the rare shop where the farm-to-cup claim is literal, not branding.
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