If you are tired of cafes where everyone is staring
at their laptop, the music is canned, the vibe is Applebees, the
art is poster, the coffee is 
nasty (and we know it’s over-priced, not to mention absent
and stale) you’ll love the Guerrilla Cafe because it’s
the Last Bohemian Adventure.
Located in the heart of the Allen Flood Plane
Roos Roast is in a barn carrying the address 410 West Huron Street.
Right near Sun Moon Yoga and across Huron Street from the new YMCA.This
is where I do my roasting, painting, selling and drinking great
coffee. Once a month I teach a coffee
class where I show people how to roast coffee, and then we get
really wired on the  latest
java and par-take in some freshly made muffins. There is a spirit
of the old days in and around this area I call the Last Bohemian
Adventure. This barn housed the horses who used to drag blocks of
ice up from the Huron River and the ice was then sold by the pound
at the adjcent ice house. The area is steeped in Ann Arbor history.
Ann’s Arbor was right across the street (if you look carefully
you can find the stone monument there across from the homeless shelter.
As you look out from the long loading dock of the barn there is
a massive concrete retaining wall on top of which is the train tracks
heading south to Toledo. This is where coal cars would dump there
load of coal for heating houses.
Now you can buy RoosRoast coffee, by the pound,
ground, or just chat with Roos and have an espresso, $2 fee and
he’ll probably ask if you want another. (which he claims to
have perfected.) It’s the best espresso in all the land! Beacoupe
De Mousse! Here is the real deal and this whole idea of a virtual
cafe came out of having a full time job selling Subaru’s and
knowing from all his previous coffee snobbery that he could do coffee
better any way you brew it roos is gonna do it.
Just call John (at 734-709-9565), work out a time,
and he’ll meet you there and you can have it become a reality
(t-shirts not included but surely possible)! The best thing you
can do is get a group of people together and he’ll give a class.
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