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The Thiensville-based coffee roaster Fiddleheads Coffee has opened its first Milwaukee location in the downtown BMO Tower located at 790 N. Water St. The cafe, located off the lobby, will also have a separate entrance on Water St. for foot traffic.
The cafe itself can seat 49, but a multilevel common area beyond it has room for customers to distance themselves further.
Besides serving coffee and espresso drinks, the cafe sells baked goods and breakfast and lunch menu items. Customers can order at the counter in person or online at the roaster’s website, fiddleheadscoffee.com, or through its app.
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Fiddleheads co-owners Steve Klimczak, Mahnaz Marcy and Mike Wroblewski.
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When Fiddleheads Coffee Roasters opened in 1996, it was one of the first coffeehouses in Ozaukee County. Starbucks, then a 1,000-store company still in the early stages of its nationwide expansion, and other big-name coffee…
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So, for Fiddleheads founder Lynn Wroblewski, educating customers about premium coffee – and why they should spend money on it – was a central part of the job.
“People didn’t know what a mocha was, what a latte was; it was a foreign language to them,” said owner Mike Wroblewski, Lynn’s brother, who joined the business about six months after Fiddleheads’ flagship location opened its doors along Thiensville’s Main Street.