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And while you’re here…
Remember to ask for Cacophony Coffee at your favorite restaurant…
Our full bodied Sundance blend, and new decaf Balance blend are now served at Avanzare! on 14th Avenue, right behind Cacophony.

Just roasted: a killer roast of Filthy Rich. Also, the sweetest espresso blend I’ve done so far..mainly because of the addition of Salvadoran Sweetness, our latest rainforest alliance coffee, with bright berry, citrus, caramel and chocolate notes. Processed in a manner called “pulped natural,” which combines the best of both natural and dry processing. The outer “cherry” is only partially washed from the bean, leaving behind a thin membrane called the silverskin to dry naturally on the bean, imparting a touch of earthiness to the flavor profile. Washed, or wet-processed coffees brew a very clean cup with bright acidity, but typically lack the lovely earthiness of a coffee dried naturally, like Sumatra. In South America, the air tends to be too moist to process naturally. But this in-between process, pulped natural, first popularized in Brazil, results in a lovely coffee in this Salvadoran. $14 a pound.

Also roasted: Sundance, a blend of sweet, Toblerone- tasting Bolivian rainforest alliance, and our favorite earthy spicy Sumatra. A huge coffee and a huge hit so far. $14 a pound.

Coming soon: Saturday night Salons
Cacophony is looking for a few GREAT women to host a cacophonous Salon, in the tradition of the great salons of 18th century France. First on the list: Artist Mary Lou Mullen, who will choose the food and wine menu and the “honored” guest list for an evening of sketching with a live model.
If you’d like to host a salon, or know an aptly illustrious potential host with an equally outrageous entourage, please let us know. The host chooses the theme of the evening, from issues of the day to pure play. These evenings will be open to the public as well. Dates to be scheduled beginning in September.

Cacophony’s hours
Monday: 8 am to 4 pm
Tuesday: 7:30 am to 4 pm
Wednesday: 7:30 am to 4 pm
Thursday: 8 am to 4 pm.
Friday: 7:30 am to 11 pm or later: Live jazz.
Saturday 9 am to 1 pm.
Open Sundays by request for groups of 20 or more.

Cacophony’s story

For 25 years, Cacophony’s owner, Michelle Genz, has dreamed of having a place to go to in Vero Beach that offered a spark of urbanity in smalltown familiarity. A place to dress up for on a Friday night and listen to jazz, read the New Yorker, have a glass of wine, or a perfect macchiato. Where the faces at the next table are familiar enough to invite an introduction, and the music is soft enough to talk over; where inclusiveness is contagious and diversity a given.
She hopes she has created just that aura in Cacophony. A former news anchor, and longtime columnist and feature writer for the Miami Herald Sunday magazine, Tropic, Genz raised her three children in Vero Beach, commuting to Miami weekly for interviews and research.
Then the magazine closed in 1998, leaving Genz without a regular venue for her writing. Frustrated by the lack of good jobs close to her family, she decided to take the risk to create a job for herself in Cacophony.
In February 2005, she found the perfect space, in one of Vero’s oldest buildings, a 1920’s era former tin smith shop that once housed the local newspaper offices, and later became a shoe repair shop. Destroyed in the hurricanes of 2004, and rebuilt by former owner Charlotte Terry, Michelle painted the newly poured slab floors to look like old wood planks, and finished a plywood bar to look like worn stone. She had the pine beams whitewashed, and painted one wall a luminous lacquer red, creating a space where cacophonous—and often hypercaffeinated—conversation swells as people drift in and congregate.
“Having Cacophony is like throwing a party every day,” she says, and begs forgiveness for being distracted by her fascinating customers as she bakes the baguettes, prepares the chickens, stirs the stockpot, pulls an espresso shot or fires up the roaster for another batch of coffee beans.

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