Look Inside Sambalatte at the Smith Center | Eater Vegas

"Located inside The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, I found Sambalatte’s fourth Las Vegas outpost designed to serve theatergoers, local business employees, and museum patrons, offering coffee, high tea, and pastries. Owner Luiz Oliveira, originally from Brazil, brings rare coffee beans and teas and will feature specialty brews during the Smith Center’s Broadway Series, beginning with a Hakuna Ma-Latte for The Lion King; the shop also highlights its own cold brew, Samba Rock. High tea service is set to begin in December, and the menu will expand to include cheese and charcuterie platters, beer, wine, and Champagne. The interior uses a palette inspired by coffee beans at various stages—white to green, red, ash, mocha, and rich brown—incorporates reclaimed wood from a barn on a coffee farm, and features lighting and chandeliers made from repurposed vintage coffee baskets; a five-foot by 12-foot mosaic tile world map by artist Jun Blanco highlights the coffee belt where beans are sourced." - Susan Stapleton