"In 2006, Bill and Ginger Sandweg brought great coffee to the Melrose District. At that time, there wasn’t any good coffee between their house and Phoenix College, where Bill was taking some Creative Writing classes. This spirit of “I’ll do it myself,’ permeates all of Copper Star Coffee. We bake all of our pastries in-house, and have since Day 1. You can’t find that at corporate coffee. When we couldn’t find a chai we liked, our team started making our own chai from scratch. Our House-made Lavender syrup won us a Phoenix’s Best Herbal Latte. Selling hummus was an early hit, but our supplier wasn’t consistent. So we started making hummus from scratch. When Bill couldn’t find a good BLT, he had to make one of his own. We sell thru about 150 pounds of bacon a week. Finally, in 2019, when our bagel vendor sold his business, we started trying our own bagels. Three months later we started selling Central Phoenix’s Best Bagel. Made from scratch, we are averaging 212 bagels a day!"



I went through the drive-through on my way out of town to get a little pick-me-up and bite to eat.



I went with the Hummus Bagel, which is s homemade bagel topped with Homemade Hummus • Roasted Tomatoes • Onions. To drink, I ordered a blended vanilla caramel frozen coffee.



Let's start with the hummus bagel. You can tell that the bagel and hummus are homemade. A touch extra toasty on the bagel. But they are just much fresher and much more flavorful than any others I've had. I like the bite from the tomatoes and a little crunch from the onion. oh, and did I mention that cherry almond muffin? Sweet, crunchy and everything I want in a muffin.



The coffee was extra frozen; so slightly more watery than others I've tried. But I enjoy this. It tempers any better flavors in the place of them with a nice dollop of caramel sauce.



Both made for a really good breakfast that was tasty and feeling.



Grade: A