Espresso Love - a Martha's Vineyard garden cafe
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Espresso Love is a Marthas Vineyard boutique café with a growing national presence. Its on-island reputation is founded on a reputation for consistently offering high quality food, great coffee, and friendly, fast service. As a business, Espresso Loves strength is its dynamic, hands-on management by owner Carol McManus and her family, supported by a team of professional bakers, chefs, and wait staff.
McManus opened Espresso Love in 1992 in a corner of a Vineyard hotel. Initially Espresso Love offered breakfast-oriented fare and coffee, but quickly developed a lunch menu as well. Espresso Loves following grew quickly as word spread of its innovative food, reasonable prices, and pleasant ambience.
Espresso Love made headlines in 1996 when President Bill Clinton and the First Family dropped in to sample the Presidential and First Lady muffins. Other celebrity visitors have included Robert De Niro, Kevin Spacey, and Gabriel Byrne.
In 2001 Espresso Love underwent a major expansion on several fronts. In May Espresso Love launched its web site, www.EspressoLove.com which offers coupons and specials and also serves as a cyberspace marketplace for a full line of Espresso Love products, including coffee mugs, beans by the pound, teas, and wearable items.
In the midst of its Internet launch, Espresso Love moved its physical location to a rambling cottage just off Edgartowns Main Street. With garden, porch, and inside dining areas, the new location quadrupled customer seating. In early summer Espresso Love extended its business hours and its menu. From a bakery and espresso bar, Espresso Love has blossomed this year into a full service restaurant offering tapas, a raw bar, and light dinner entrees, as well as a carefully selected beer and wine list. The local mediaincluding New England Cable Networks Phantom Gourmethave given rave reviews to Espresso Loves new incarnation.
An Espresso Love cookbook, Wheres the Love? The Espresso Love Marthas Vineyard Cookbook, is currently in development.
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