Richardson | July 2023

DINING FEATURE

BY DUSTIN BUTLER

“I WANTED TO SOURCE MY OWN COFFEE, AND I WANTED TO ROAST IT THE WAY I WANTED IT. ... I WANTED TO CONTROL THE PROFILE OF MY COFFEE.” CLAY EILAND, OWNER

Eiland Coee Roasters has two locations in the city.

Eiland Coee at Canyon Creek oers the Breakfast Sandwich ($6) and more.

Clay Eiland is one of the few certied coee quality graders in North Texas. (Photos by Dustin Butler/Community Impact)

Eiland Coee at Canyon Creek Richardson institution eyeing expansion of coee shop brand E iland Coee Roasters owner Clay Eiland said he opened his Richardson-based roast- properties near Old 75 Beer Garden, which he plans to turn into a second roaster and a coee shop. Prior to opening the roastery,

Eiland Coee at Canyon Creek 2701 Custer Parkway, Ste. 917, Richardson 469-372-0818 www.eilandcoee.com Hours: Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Sun. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. • Latte ($3-$4.50) is a hot drink with espresso combined with steamed milk. • Iced mocha ($5.50) combines espresso with chocolate and milk over ice. • Hibiscus berry tea ($3-$4.50) has a blend of hibiscus and berries. BEST SELLERS Clay Eiland named three popular drinks with patrons.

my coee,” Eiland said. Eventually, Eiland became a qual- ity grader, a rigorous certication. According to Eiland, 94% of people fail the test the rst time they take it, with most never passing. To learn to roast, Eiland said he traveled to the Pacic Northwest. He said at rst, he avored his coee if it wasn’t roasted perfectly. Eiland uses a cast-iron roaster made in the 1960s, which produces a more developed bean than many newer roasters. He said undevel- oped coee beans can lead to coee that tastes good hot but starts to become more acidic as it cools. “There is a big dierence,” Eiland said. “Once you know that as a consumer, you’ll start to pick it out.”

ery after “catching the coee bug.” Twenty years later, he’s still selling coee across North Texas. Eiland has two locations: Eiland Coee Roasters, which primarily sells coee beans with a limited drink menu; and Eiland Coee at Canyon Creek, which is a full-ser- vice coee shop serving breakfast and lunch options. Food items include breakfast sandwichs, pizzas or atbreads, and several charcuterie board options as well as a variety of pastries and desserts, including a vegan straw- berry guava pop tart. Eiland recently purchased two

Eiland was an authorized reseller for Apple. In early 1998, Eiland received a letter informing him that Apple would discontinue the store’s authorization to resell its products. “I was kind of getting burnt out,” he said. “My parents had a [coee] shop in the 1990s, so I got a job with the people who sold them coee ... before I started my company.” Initially, Eiland used beans roasted by others, but in 2003, he started roasting so he could have more control over the avor and consistency. “I wanted to control the prole of

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