Plus, you’ ll get donuts. And not just any donuts, but Volants.
These unusual, delicious treats are served in 17 different creative varieties, ranging from strawberry blonde and blueberry crumble, through pistachio dream and chocolate hazelnut, to locally-themed favorites like the Abe Martin Apple and the Brown County Breakfast( maple glaze and cinnamon sugar).
And if you think their donuts are innovative, get a gander at their Volant sandwiches: a plain or“ everything” Volant with ham, egg, and cheese; avocado, egg, and cheese; or the“ wild turkey” with bacon, avocado, and pepperjack cheese. Or a“ Monte Cristo” with ham, Swiss cheese, aioli, mustard and mixed berry jam on a caramelized maple volant.
Visitors make their way through a little cafeteria line where they view the tasty delights inside a glass case, choose their favorite( s), and order any of a plethora of available drinks.
Coffee? There’ s drip, espresso, Americano, cappuccino, cortado, latte, dark or white mocha and hot chocolate. Tea lattes include matcha, Chai and London fog; steeped teas include jasmine, lavender mint, chamomile and the dreaded Earl Grey.
You can get a“ nitro cold brew” with any of a dozen syrups, including sugar-free choices, and add cold foam for a dollar-fifty. All drinks are double shots. Not to mention the house specials: hot or iced“ campfire macchiato,” Salt Creek
caramel macchiato, white peach iced matcha, and“ vanilla Bean Blossom,” cold foam or nitro.
Olde Bartley House offers“ Moonshiners,” sparkling energy drinks with caffeine from green coffee beans, guarana, and botanicals, including“ Fools Gold,” gold hibiscus with cardamom, ginger, and bitters,“ Huckleberry Heaven” with lavender, huckleberry and lemon, and“ Tangerine Dream” with lemon, tangerine, vanilla bean, and sweet cream.
Cold drinks include strawberry limeade freeze, elderberry hibiscus iced tea, mango calamansi refresher, and strawberry or chocolate milk.
The donuts were good, but I have to admit that my favorite thing about this new coffee shop is its Frank Hohenberger theme. The historic house has been transformed into a virtual shrine to the iconic photographer who put Brown County on the radar of potential tourists.
Hohenberger, as much as anyone, created the modern tourist industry in Nashville, especially through his weekly column“ Down in the Hills O’
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