From the cherry
to your cup.
Great espresso starts years before it hits the portafilter. Here's exactly where our coffee comes from, who we trust to find it, and how we roast it five miles from where you drink it.
Espresso a Mano sources excellent and sustainable green coffee from across the coffee-growing world through three specialist importers — Keffa Coffee, Red Fox Coffee Merchants, and Bean Belt Coffees — and has roasted every coffee in-house in Pittsburgh since 2021. Everything else on the bar is sourced from local Pittsburgh purveyors.
Quality is found
before it's roasted
Coffee is an agricultural product. The variety, the altitude, the soil, the picking, the processing — by the time a bean reaches Pittsburgh, most of its potential is already decided. That's why we put our energy into what we buy and who we buy it from.
We partner with importers who work season after season with the same farms and washing stations, pay for quality, and put sustainability ahead of volume. Then our job is simple: don't ruin it.
The people who walk the farms
We buy green coffee through three importers we trust — specialists who build long-term relationships at origin and bring us lots we couldn't find alone.
Keffa Coffee
Green coffee importer
Red Fox Coffee Merchants
Green coffee importer
Bean Belt Coffees
Green coffee importer
Small batches,
five miles fresh
In 2021 we brought roasting in-house. Every coffee on our bars — espresso, drip, and the beans on the retail shelf — is now roasted by us, in Pittsburgh, in small batches.
Roasting our own coffee closes the loop: we choose the lot, develop the profile, taste it daily on the bar, and adjust. You drink coffee at its peak — days off the roast, not months.
Beans & merch — coming soonLocal, on purpose
Coffee crosses an ocean to reach us; everything else shouldn't have to. The rest of the bar is sourced from Pittsburgh-area purveyors we're proud to name.
| Breads & pastry | Pane e' Pronto · Mediterra Bakehouse · Five Points Artisan Bakeshop (Squirrel Hill) |
|---|---|
| Dairy | Turner Dairy Farms — Pittsburgh's hometown dairy, steamed into every latte |
| Tea | Gryphon's Tea |
| Syrups | Handmade in-house — including our acclaimed black sesame and maple cinnamon lattes |
| Green coffee | Keffa Coffee · Red Fox Coffee Merchants · Bean Belt Coffees |
| Roasting | In-house, Pittsburgh, PA — since 2021 |
Taste what careful sourcing means
Order a single-origin espresso or this week's drip at any of our three bars — or grab a gift card for the coffee lover in your life.