Built for the corner, not the corner office
Pass Cafe opened in the spring of 2019 inside a white clapboard building that used to be a dry cleaner. We stripped the linoleum, exposed the original pine floors, and installed a single-group espresso machine that we had driven down from Burlington in a borrowed minivan.
We roast our house blend in small weekly batches in Pittsfield and buy the rest from importers we have shaken hands with. The menu is short because we do not believe in a twenty-option board that slows the line.
Most mornings, half the customers are still fastening their bike helmets or reaching for their train pass when the coffee hits the bar. That is who we built this for. People with somewhere to be, who still want it done right.