Posted by Francesco on October 28th, 2008
Local entrepreneurs Toan and Betsy Nguyen, owners of C’Ville Coffee have finally taken their famous Honey Bunches to the next level…the internet. In the works for many months now, their new online store, C-VilleCookies.com, allows anyone anywhere in the country to feed their Honey Bunch craving.
Toan can tell you many stories where people that received them as gifts (Chicago, California, you name it) call as soon as their supply runs out for a refill. Enough of these emergency calls have come in over the years to convince them to expand. This is an ambitious goal for one of our darlings, and I hope they can pull it off. With new flavors like butterscotch, white chocolate and macadamia nut and triple berry, I think they can do it!
If you are new to cville, stop by the City/Farmer’s Market saturday morning or swing by C’ville Coffee to get your fix. They are worth the trip.
[pics from c-villecookies.com]
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Posted by Francesco on June 20th, 2008
Most of us are obsessed with the downtown mall usually out of convenience. What is off the beaten path? My interest
in procuring a new breakfast spot has yielded a diamond in the cville rough: C’ville Coffee. Located at the corner of Harris and McIntire in what seems to be an antique/furniture business park, it serves up more than just coffee.
My curiosity with Cville Coffee began with the Chocolate Chip Honey Bunches I tried at the City/Farmers Market a couple of weeks ago. Something so simple and delicious surely had to come out of a creative kitchen, or at least a business that really cares about its customer experience.
About an Owner
I had lunch with Toan Nguyen, owner of C’ville Coffee soon after our introduction at the City/Farmers Market. We discussed everything from business to politics to the local “green” initiative. He has quite a colorful past, influenced very much by his wife’s career ambitions. She was a high-powered San Francisco lawyer in the 80’s, no doubt slinging together crazy private equity and leveraged buy-out deals in the hay day of financial market abuse (just a thought, not actually confirmed). Confronted with the realization that working for the Firm would not allow for a great family life, she told Toan she wanted to move back to cville where she attended Uva Law.
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