A new coffee shop is coming to Kirkwood this summer, though St. Louisans can get a taste this Saturday morning.
Teleo Coffee will host a mini grand opening outside its future brick-and-mortar space, at 132 W. Monroe, on February 27 from 8 a.m.–noon. The pop-up event will feature a sampling of Teleo Coffee’s menu, as well as products from other local businesses. Honey bee’s will be serving its classic biscuits and gravy and a new flavor, chocolate chip biscuits with candied bacon and harvarti cheese. Also available: The Rebel Spoon‘s coffee-shaped cookies, homemade candles from LoveMy Candles Co., and blue bath bombs from Hope Soaperie. While the event will take place outdoors, Teleo will host an open house, allowing guests to tour the interior.
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Highlights from Teleo Coffee’s menu include the honey bear latte, sea salt mocha, and lavender vanilla with homemade syrup. On Saturday, Teleo will also serve a maple brown sugar latte, in addition to coffee beans (available ground or whole), branded mugs, T-shirts, masks, pins, stickers, and tote bags.
The event will mark a sneak peek of Teleo’s forthcoming shop, though Saint Louis University grad Olivia Oglesby’s coffee brand has already been a part of farmers’ markets across the metro area.
“My junior year of college, I fell in love with what a coffee shop is, how it’s this unique space where people come and have fellowship and community,” says Oglesby. “Faith is a big part of my life and who I am, and that’s what [Teleo Coffee] is founded on.”
In fact, the coffee shop’s slogan is “Loving our neighbors one cup at a time.” Many of the ingredients are sourced from socially minded businesses. The coffee beans, for instance, are from Switch Coffee Collective, which partners with Mission: St. Louis to provide job training to under-resourced communities. The company also partners with Bridge Bread Bakery, a social enterprise to employ people experiencing homelessness, and Whisk: A Sustainable Bakeshop, whose mission is to minimize its carbon footprint.
As Teleo assistant manager Carynn Hildebrand explains, “We bring in products that go directly back into the community.”
