BUSINESS FEATURE
BY KAREN CHANEY
wine ights Golden Boy Co ee & Wine Bar serves a variety of national and international wines. $12 SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
“I THINK WHAT SETS US APART AND MAKES US TRULY A THIRD WAVE COFFEE SHOP IS WE ARE BARISTAS.”
TREY SUIRE, OWNER
Cappuccinos feature espresso co ee with frothed hot milk. $4.25
Trey Suire opened Golden Boy Co ee & Wine Bar in February 2021 on The Boardwalk at Granite Park in Plano. (Photos by Karen Chaney/Community Impact)
Owner and experienced barista Trey Suire prepares a matcha tea latte.
The grilled cheese panini features sliced Gouda and Swiss cheese and is served with chips. $6
Golden Boy Co ee & Wine Bar Drinks served on The Boardwalk at Granite Park in Plano W hen Trey Suire opened Golden Boy Co ee & Wine Bar in Plano last director of co ee operations. Suire said he was a manager and general contractor, and he would open new locations around the metroplex.
the third wave came in when co ee shops became more unique [and] interesting, coming up with new ideas, styles, avor pro les, how we brew, how we roast.” In addition to a wide variety of co ee options, Golden Boy Co ee & Wine Bar customers will also nd national and international wines as well as edibles, such as housemade breakfast tacos and paninis. Suire said some customers are surprised by the laid-back vibe. “Sta gets to dress how they want, be who they want, have any type of haircut they want,” he said. “We want people to be themselves and enjoy their jobs. That’s really cool, and the culture surprises a lot of people.”
Golden Boy Co ee & Wine Bar 5880 SH 121, Ste. 102A, Plano 214-499-6726 www.goldenboyco ee.com/plano Hours: Sun.-Thu. 7 a.m.-8 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 7 a.m.-10 p.m.
year, he wielded decades of indus- try experience as well as a lifetime a nity for co ee. “I’ve been drinking it since I was 5,” Suire said. “I’m from south Lou- isiana, a very poor area, so chicory co ee is what I would drink as a kid. As I grew up, seven days a week, all my life, I drank co ee. I love co ee.” Suire and his business partner, Andy Cunningham, paired up to open Golden Boy Co ee and Cocktails in Denton in 2017. Prior to that, they both worked for Ascension, a local co ee, food and wine chain, where they worked as baristas. Cunningham was also the
In February 2021, Suire opened Golden Boy Co ee & Wine Bar at The Boardwalk at Granite Park. “[For] a lot of people who open co ee shops, we feel they are somebody who wants to play co ee, but they don’t really know anything about it,” he said. Suire served up a brief history lesson about what he calls the third- wave co ee shop. “Co ee started a long time ago, obviously, when that magic bean happened,” he said. “The second wave of co ee happened in the ‘70s with Starbucks. Then, in the 2000s,
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