Brew Ultimo

I was reading an article about quirky and fun places to have coffee, buy groceries and hang out and I noticed that all of the cool places were either in San-Francisco...Got to get there one day or in New York City...I was delightfully surprised to find this place here in my home town of Philadelphia PA.

Brew Ultimo...A coffee shop!

Aaron Ultimo, it's owner and namesake, fell into the coffee business by chance,or on a humbug if you're hip, when he agreed to help a friend open a shop after college.

After developing a passion for coffee, he helped launch Spruce Street Espresso and was later approached by the owner of the South Philadelphia Taproom to open this coffee and beer shop.

“Beer people are often coffee people and coffee people are often beer people," says Ultimo. He's right...I for one am both!

"Customers often purchase beer as they wait for coffee, or grab a coffee as they buy a beer."

Brew sells small batch local beers like Manayunk Dreamin' Double IPA and international varieties like Gueuze Tilquin sour lambic from Belgium, while baristas prepare Guatemalan espresso and iced Ethiopian Haru coffee nearby.

Ultimo also offers locally sourced snacks like bagels and croissants with peach butter and fig jam from West Philadelphia's Four Worlds Bakery, Coco Love's "bruffins" (brownie muffins), and an award-winning cheesesteak.

This sounds like my kinda place!