Chinatown’s new Take It Easy coffee shop features Colombian cheese breads and coffee-based mocktails | Eater Vegas

"At 3540 S. Wynn Road I discovered a new Chinatown coffee shop and bakery that doubles as a public-facing roastery for Josh Molina’s shops and showcases cheese-filled Colombian breads, pastries, and coffee-based mocktails. Molina, a first-generation Colombian who opened the roasting space in 2017 and upgraded to a Diedrich IR-12 roaster, runs the business with his parents Martha and Omar; he brought on Ashley Avila from Makers & Finders as pastry chef and tapped Paris Cesena as head roaster. The bakery menu highlights buñuelos made to order and filled with cotija, pandebono with cotija and queso fresco, almojábana with queso fresco and feta, and pan con queso in individual and family sizes stuffed with mozzarella and queso fresca, alongside carrot cake doughnuts, matcha cakes and cake pops, fruit tarts, and a roster of empanadas. On the drink side, specialty mocktails use coffee as a base, with beans from five countries including Colombia’s Huila; standout beverages include a dalgona matcha with honey milk and a matcha meringue topping, an espresso fizz with juniper berry and citrus-infused honey, the Somewhere in Kentucky (a mint- and lime-forward espresso take on a mint julep), and the On the Block with pomegranate, black iced tea, and lemon. The space is sleek and minimal—white tiles, a white countertop with a La Marzocco machine, a mountain mural by Trenton Larson, a small patio, counter service, a few tables and a bar—and even uses a sloth as its easygoing logo; the name comes from Molina’s father’s favorite saying, “Take it easy.”" - Susan Stapleton