The 2026 Coffee Buildcast Vol. 2

Zachary, I thought I would jump right in by talking about a coffee bar in a city that I actually really love and I've spent a lot of time in, sort of really throughout my life, all the way back to when I was a little kid.

And that is the city of Orlando, Florida.

Now, Florida's coffee scene is hot.

There is so much cool coffee culture happening in Florida and a wider sort of very interesting moment across the state of Florida for outstanding food and beverage, outstanding restaurants, really cool bars, so much stuff happening.

And Florida contains multitudes.

There's so many different sort of expressions of food and beverage culture across that state.

And Orlando, I think if people know it, they maybe know it for some of its famous kind of tourist attractions.

There's also like a really, really cool like culture center coffee scene sort of world there that's like I really dig Orlando.

I love getting to spend time there.

I've been going since I was a kid.

My grandfather lived there growing up, so we would truck across the country like every year or so to go and see him.

And I always love when we have an opportunity to talk about Orlando here on the site.

The cafe that we featured in Orlando is called Filigree Coffee.

And like, yeah, I mean, what can you even say? Like these guys talk in their interview about being a modern coffee roaster, their approach.

They want to highlight complexity.

and sweetness they want to be really like thoughtful about letting coffee speak for themselves and like like present origin but they're also creating a coffee space that feels modern and thoughtful and can highlight that coffee and you really see it in the photos that are included it's a very modern very cool looking but I think like a approachable and like smart coffee bar um the work that they're doing there is anchored by a la marzocco gb5 av they've paired that with malconig e80 grinders they also are doing some cool hand brew there which i love to see you know i'm still i just i love getting a hand-brewed coffee at a scales kettles they've got a mod bar steam wand they also work with one of those uh really cool flashy weber eg1 grinders that they they talk about a lot as being a big focus of that brew bar which is really really cool um i don't know there's some like cool looking sound system stuff happening in this bar too there's like hanging speakers with like a little uh uh speaker cone that look really great um this looks like the kind of cafe that i would love to be able to visit in a city but also if I lived there I would be a regular that's awesome

Orlando yeah I still have never been yeah you gotta go I do I do and I can check this place out you've done Miami though I've done Miami, which is very different.

Yeah, very different.

Yeah, Florida is so interesting.

It's true.

And I just have never done the Orlando, never gone to Disney World.

Yeah, it's a trip.

It contains multitudes.

I wish there was better coffee there.

That's the one thing I wish I could change about Disney World.