Mobile coffee has always been there. The proud tradition of coffee carts, coffee trailers, coffee vans, you call it – Coffee on the way has become a work of art. But sometimes even the most hardened road dog has to serene down, and so it is here Handle of hand cafewhich began life as a mobile cafe and bottled coffee service. Here, in 2025, they are preparing to launch the first brick and mortar – “five years of creation” – and they do it with the intention and vision that can rarely be found in any version of the coffee service. Let’s go ashore to learn more.
For those who are not familiar, will you tell us about your company?
Cafe’s hand steel began in 2020 as a mobile cafe and a bottled Latte delivery service and since then it grew up to multi -card operations offering services for immense music festivals, as well as a seasonal residence at the pool in St. Laurent Social Club at Asbury Park, NJ, and now, from May 2025 Bradley Beach, Nj. In addition to the cafe, the stable hand is also home for a good-line bottled, made barists of syrups inspired by culinary technique, cocktails and nostalgic flavors, made of real ingredients and a imaginative spirit.
Ashley Burk is the founder and imaginative director Staada Hand Cafe. Having experience in culinary art and a imaginative direction, Ashley introduces a thoughtful, expressive approach to each aspect of the brand – from the development of taste and creating recipes to visual identity and customer service. Her work combines the intention of fun, which results in coffee, which seems both elevated and accessible. Thanks to his constant hand, Ashley built a brand that values consistency, creativity and community.
Can you tell us about a modern space?
For me it was a space that was five years. I had an idea about how I wanted it to look in my head and I just hoped that everything would meet. Well, yes! The vision of Cafe’s interior has always been a function of an equal part and form: no unnecessary volume. Seat, which is elegant, but also serves as storage, pristine and lightweight with sultry wooden shades and sections of color and unexpected fun around the world. I wanted the space to make someone’s inner child come alive with curiosity and excitement. This is a space that is to be fully experienced. From White Oak Wood as the foundation of all furniture, a stunning work full of color and movement, to the installation of silk tapestry I designed and commissioned Dallas Hlatky Merle works For dyeing the project that moves when the air flows from the front or back door. We operate the letters of the fridge magnets as our menu with a petite collection of trinkets on the wall of the partition above it, in which people can add to the collection, the bathroom is an explosion of color and fun- from a disco ball over the toilet to the window of the shadow box filled with colorful plants and the Suncatcher privacy screen, which throws magic dots in a room in a room when a sunlit window at a normal shot.
Then we completely reduced the yard! The rebuilt garden boxes and made them sit, so that people could sit on their sides, enjoying coffee. We have another disco ball hung over the cafe lights. They are scattered in the space of evening events that we certainly have. Reeds surround the entire space to create a petite private space that supports our neighbor’s beer garden (brewery). We grow wild flowers, the herbs we will operate when we introduce food, edible flowers into theorstile, vegetables and a charming petite fig tree and a blueberry bush. In general, the space is magical. It took a lot of fun as soon as I allowed myself to trust my internal imaginative self to make decisions from playing with anything else. To sum up … the space is petite, but it is so special in many ways.
What is your coffee approach?
Playful. Comical with how it is delivered visually, including how coffee interacts with ingredients that we integrate with our drinks next to it. I treat coffee, just like a component of a meal recipe or a cocktail. Sometimes you want it to be the main character, and sometimes it is a supporting role. And how do I generally approach the coffee service? No barriers, no guard. We open the door and emit the senior “Too chilly” vibe of coffee service. Inclusion, kindness, warmth, openness. We are here to gladly serve an ingredient, cultivation, goods that was cultivated by other people whose whole life is this plant. At least we could honor it and open others to our beauty.
Any machines, coffee, special equipment set up?
We employed NJ Espresso To renew the three -gap from 2008 Classic marzocco line It was tailored to color and coated with powder to match my dream car, Volvo 145 from the 70s in “green” color. She is dreamy.
How does your project consider sustainable development?
We rebuilt the entire garden garden home to grow wild flowers, which we can operate in the space for decor, edible flowers for decoration, vegetables that can be used for the specialty of toast, as well as herbs that are to be used as ingredients of our drinks.
What is your hope for the opening date/month?
We opened in May 2025 after getting the keys in March and we had three months of wild and crazy turning! Seriously, when you see before and after … it’s wild!
Do you work with craftsmen, architects and/or creators you would like to mention?
Yes! Our grinder was made by Resolute woodworkingEspresso Machine Refrurb and Powder Coating by NJ Espresso Mechanics, the designed installation of silk wall art was dyed by a local artist- Dallas Hlatky from Merle Works. Huge graphics printed behind the bar is Adult wild studioThe labels of our barista bottles made by syrups called The Good are designed by A. Crosby Studio.
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