Café du Breault French Quarter Style Coffee - Sale

Back by popular request! This coffee is a labor of love. Someone had to rescue this genre of coffee from the originators, who have dropped the ball.

Café du Breault (pronounced "Bro" -- it's French) is our answer to the demand for New Orleans French Quarter-style coffee, specifically Café du Monde. This style of coffee is a very dark roast, with roasted chicory added not as a filler but as a crucial ingredient in a traditional recipe. To many Vietnamese-Americans, this French Quarter style is considered Vietnamese coffee because it was in their household growing up. It isn't. But we've taken that USA tradition and melded it with genuine Vietnamese chocolatey butter-roast style coffee just because these traditions go so well together.

This is a very strong coffee with an intense, traditional Vietnamese chocolatey flavor profile combined with New Orleans French Quarter dark roast and chicory tradition. Basically, East meets West in a combination that is sublime. It's wonderful as Café Sua Da with sweetened condensed milk, and also as iced coffee.

8 ounces, this sale is for GROUND coffee only, due to the ground chicory in the recipe.

More Information about Cafe du Monde, and how (and why!) we created Café du Breault

To a large part of America, "Vietnamese Coffee" means Café du Monde. But Café du Monde is actually produced by a Canadian company, sold in a café in New Orleans, and made with South American coffee beans. Why would anyone think it was Vietnamese?

Because after the Vietnam war, large numbers of Vietnamese refugees settling in the United States found themselves stranded in a land of weak coffee. They couldn't get their beloved Vietnamese beans due to the trade embargoes. So, they looked for the best substitute they could find: regular American coffee roasted super-dark and mixed with chicory, which gave it the edginess and intensity they craved. Café du Monde became a fixture of Vietnamese-American households for generations.

Problem is, Café du Monde as it is produced today is simply not of the same quality as it was many years ago.

With the success of the Saigon blends, though, we felt like we were finally ready to create our own French Quarter coffee with chicory. We're proud of this and we believe it is a true representative of this style of coffee as well as a premium quality and delicious coffee in its own right.

The name "Café du Breault" comes from Len's last name, which is Brault. A large part of the French half of his ancestry settled in New Orleans, and probably played a part in the development of its coffee heritage. Back then, the name still used its original French spelling and pronunciation. We decided it was perfect for our new French Quarter coffee!

~~$21.00~~ $16.00

(You save $5.00)