Nossa Familia Coffee is a coffee company based in

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. The roaster was founded by Augusto Carneiro in 2004 and uses sustainably sourced beans imported from Africa as well as Central and South America.

Description and history

Nossa Familia ("Our Family" in Portuguese) was founded by Augusto Carvalho Dias Carneiro. In 2017, the business confirmed plans to close the warehouse

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facility and Espresso Bar in northwest Portland and open four cafes: * Nossa Familia's Guatemala Cafe in

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* Nossa Familia's Brazil Cafe in southeast Portland * Nossa Familia's Cloudforest Espresso Bar in northwest Portland * Nossa Familia's CalEdison Espresso Bar in Los Angeles, California In 2019, Nossa Familia became "the first Portland coffee shop to add a 25-cent extra charge to orders served in disposable to-go cups". The company stopped operating for nearly two years because of the

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, reopening in January 2022.

Reception

Seiji Nanbu included Nossa Familia in ''

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'''s 2020 overview of "Portland's go-to hot chocolates". The website's Katrina Yentch included the company in a 2021 list of "14 Distinctive Portland Cafés That Roast Their Own Coffee".

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