{"id":96124,"date":"2019-01-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/spruce-tree-espresso-gets-a-new-owner-and-name\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T17:00:00","slug":"spruce-tree-espresso-gets-a-new-owner-and-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/spruce-tree-espresso-gets-a-new-owner-and-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Spruce Tree Espresso gets a new owner and name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:d0dd3b06-5750-465e-b139-1b317b1404a1 --><\/p>\n<p><hardreturn>The iconic lavender coffee shop on Main Street has changed hands \u2013 but the new owners are no strangers to Cortez.<\/hardreturn><\/p>\n<p>The Spruce Tree Espresso House, at 318 E. Main St., has been sold to Bill and Linda Marty, proprietors of The Silver Bean just down the street. While the menu will change somewhat, much of the shop\u2019s style and even offerings will remain the same, said Elizabeth Wilson, one of the site\u2019s new managers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll keep the same style. We might paint inside, but not for a little bit,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe do have Wi-Fi, for everybody. Not really a lot has changed. We tried to keep the same menu, as close to what we could do as possible, so that their customers didn\u2019t have to go to Starbucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new name? Bean Tree.<\/p>\n<p>Spruce Tree, which has been in operation since 2006, had been under ownership of <a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/12697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharon King<\/a> since 2013. According to Wilson, King reached out to The Silver Bean about the possible sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last year, we really have done very well over there,\u201d Wilson said of the Airstream trailer-turned coffee shop at 410 W. Main St. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a lot of sit-down area, and so during the winter a lot of people want to come sit, and we have a bench, two seats, and then a little couch inside.\u201d They jumped at the opportunity to expand.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer officially happened just after Christmas and was somewhat hectic, she added, but operations have calmed down now, and Silver Bean regulars have learned of the new spot.<\/p>\n<p>Barista Kathy Stiteler started working at Spruce Tree about a year ago and has stayed on through the management shift. Stiteler said that much feels the same about the pastel-walled shop, although some of the interior artwork changed over the winter holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The menu will also benefit from being able to collaborate with The Silver Bean, Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of our pastries and bagels and everything like that, we make from scratch,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have a commercial kitchen over at The Silver Bean. That\u2019s where we bake all our goodies, and so people love that. We\u2019re keeping the Desert Sun coffee, but we\u2019re also going to bring in our 81301 that we get from Durango.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>coffee shop now called Bean Tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-96124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96124"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=96124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}