Sightseer Coffee Opens in Austin With an Eye Towards Women’s Equity | Eater Austin
"Tucked inside Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop, I discovered a hot new coffee stop run by co-founders Kimberly Zash and Sara Gibson that is feminist and queer-owned and serves coffees farmed, sourced, and roasted by women. The shop — which started as a roasting company in 2022 after Zash and Gibson met at Greater Goods Coffee — offers the usual specialty espresso drinks, pour-overs, and cold brew, plus 10 roasts and inventive signature drinks: the Teaches of Peaches (cold brew shaken over ice with peach nectar and mint syrup, garnished with Tajin and a chili lime peach ring), the Fade Into You (a latte made with smoked maple syrup, black walnut bitters, and a dash of black lava salt), a vegan butterscotch latte, and a bunuelo latte made with piloncillo sugar, cinnamon, and orange zest. Their stated mission is to source exclusively from women producers and pay higher-than-fair Trade prices — noting that women make up approximately 70 percent of the labor force on coffee farms but are often shut out of management and ownership — and they donate $3 from every bag of El Prisma coffee sold during Pride month to benefit Out Youth; a grand opening on Saturday, June 29th, will feature half-off drinks all day, 20 percent off bags of coffee, free goodies from Sugar Mama’s, free “cold fashioned” cocktails with cocktails from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and a raffle benefiting Out Youth. They’re not pretentious about coffee but are clearly in love with it and happy to nerd out about roasts, sustainability, and recommendations, and customers can also grab baked goods from Sugar Mama’s when they pop in." - Courtney E. Smith
