Javier Ernesto Garc��a Wong Kit
Some places are designed to enjoy. At Tazza Caff� the owners have paid special care to create an ambiance and creative space for their coffee lovers to relish.
The tagline in Tazza Caff� is “Tazza es tu casa”, Tazza is your home. During the day, it is a comfortable spot for great coffee and food. At night, you find a vibrant atmosphere where you can relax and enjoy.
(Photo: Marco Simola/Living in Peru)
Some places are designed to enjoy. In a place like this, any meal could be an excuse to visit, stay long hours with a good cup of coffee, have a nice conversation and just let the time go. Especially when the coffee is organic, made by expert hands, and comes from Villa Rica, in Oxapampa, or Cajamarca with the Fair Trade Certificate, and gets to your table with a glass of water and a little brownie.
A place like that is Tazza Caff�, in the Trade Center of San Isidro, a coffee house with different options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you visit in the morning, try a healthy brunch like the OG Wishi Bowl Acai, with banana, berries, and granola, or the Summer Wishi Bowl Acai, with mango instead of berries. They also have waffles and omelets that you can enjoy with a healthy juice or fresh smoothie.
(Photo: Marco Simola/Living in Peru)
For lunch, the healthy options are the bowls of quinoa or chickpeas, the fresh salads (good portions, enough for hard workers) made with grilled chicken, quinoa and a hard boiled egg, or tuna. Four pizzas (the two most attractive ones: The classic tomato, mozzarella, and fresh basil, and the Campesina, with mushrooms, black onions, onion, peppers, and ham) and five sandwiches made using French artisan bread, complete the menu.
The specialty of the house is the quinoa burger with avocado in cubes and the big toasts with seeds created recently for night-time diners. In the evening, the coffee house turns into a vibrant coffee bar/lounge, dimming the lights and changing the music for the happy hour (beer, wine or cocktails served with Pisco or gin). The night menu includes BBQ wings with yogurt mayo, hummus with paprika and olive oil, and Mexican quesadillas.
The terrace and the lighting are perfect for a quiet evening where you can choose between ice coffees or Peruvians beer. Mar��a Camino, the founder of Tazza Caff�, says that she wants to create a place for any time of the day. First, all of the products were designed around coffee, looking after the taste of the customers. Then, applying the concepts of Design Thinking that she studied at Stanford University, she introduced the drinks and the appetizers.
(Photo: Marco Simola/Living in Peru)
Her latest innovation is Tazza Lab. That’s what she calls the terrace when office teams or crews of creative professionals have their meetings in the coffee house using the windows as boards and tagging Post-its, all of which follows the theories of her studies (she also studied to be a barista in Le Cordon Bleu).
Tazza Caff� could be the refugee for coffee lovers, people with healthy diets, creative minds or office workers that are looking for a break in the middle of hard days. Mar��a tells us that many of them are frequent visitors or, as she refers to them, �friends for the coffee time that now can come to their favorite place for a drink�.
Tazza Caffe
Address: Amador Merino Reyna 461, San Isidro
Monday 7.00 – 20.00 / Tuesday to Friday, 7.00 – 22.00 / Saturday, 9.00 – 13.00
Javier Garc��a is a journalist. He writes for news, magazines, and websites about ecology, gastronomy, sports and culture, and especially Nikkei culture. He taught journalism in San Mart��n de Porres University and is the editor of the book of Chronicles ‘�Tentaciones Narrativas’�. In 2016, he published some articles about vegetarianism for his blog ‘�Cr��nicas vegetarianas’�. Twitter: javiernesto Instagram: javiernesto77
