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new entrees. There were various menu specials, as well, that were so popular they were added to the regular menu.

“We took all of the really good specials that people really liked and incorporated those into our new menu,” Cameron said.

The breakfast quesadilla started out as a weekend special and the demand “went off the charts,” according to Cameron.

“It’s a quesadilla and we add scrambled eggs, a fourcheese blend, avocado and sausage and we add a drizzle of our zesty ranch, salsa and sour cream. I can’t even tell you how many we made last Saturday.”

The housemade biscuits and gravy is also a popular item on the breakfast Dianna Cameron and Dani Kahn are celebrating the second anniversary of HG menu. “I Roastery and Café on April 26. GSN photo by Lynette Carrington make it the way my grandma taught me to make it,” customers raved about some of the daily Cameron commented. specials.

Salsa, dressings and the zesty ranch are “We’re roasting our own coffee and all made fresh at HG Roastery. grinding our own grounds. We want to One new lunch menu item is the Gilbie provide a higher echelon of coffee,” cheesesteak sandwich, named after the said Dianna Cameron who co-owns HG Town of Gilbert.

Roastery with Dani Kahn. “That was really “It’s our take on a cheesesteak. We’ve the true inspiration.” kind of ‘Sonoran-ized’ it,” Cameron The cafe serves breakfast all day, explains. “It has jalapenos, onions, red every day and lunch bell peppers and beginning at 11 a.m. we use Monterey It has a full breakfast Jack cheese and lunch menu full melted into it on of entrees derived a French roll. We from family recipes or love it. I hope in-store collaborations everyone loves and with extra it.” attention to detail.

Other inIn honor of their demand lunch second anniversary items are the The Gilbie is a new lunch menu item at HG on April 26, the HG BLTAA—a bacon, Roastery and Café that is a Sonoran version Roastery’s owners lettuce, tomato, of a cheesesteak sandwich named after the recall the store’s green apple Town of Gilbert. Submitted photo growth. and avocado The food menu sandwich originated with the café and due to with herbal aioli on toasted multigrain popular demand, recently expanded. bread—the Sonoran chicken panini with “We decided that although we had a blackened chicken, pepper jack cheese, good-sized menu, it wasn’t as versatile, green chiles, red onion, bell peppers and so what we did is add two new meats,” zesty ranch served on sourdough bread Cameron stated. and the savory pulled pork sandwich.

Pork and steak were added to the “Dianna is the brains of the menu,” breakfast and lunch menus to create said Kahn, who also offers her opinion

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HG Roastery and Café has answered to a higher calling—its customers. The “HG” in the name stands for “Higher Grounds” and the owners take pride in bringing a higher standard to their coffee shop while retaining the uniqueness of an independent establishment. The owners of HG Roastery and Café have expanded the breakfast and lunch menus after

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on the menu along with Cameron’s son, Evan Vega, who roasts the coffee and handles some cooking duties at HG Roastery.

Prior to owning HG Roastery Cameron and Kahn worked together at Hilton Phoenix Chandler along with Vega.

“There were all these things we had to adhere to via the Hilton, via the people that owned the hotel and we saw all these different ways HG Roastery and Café offers house roasted coffee and a recently expanded breakfast and lunch menu. GSN photo by Lynette Carrington that it could be run so much more smoothly “He’s very, very serious about roasting,” and better,” Cameron Cameron said. “He’s a history buff so he explained. Cameron and Kahn then knows the history of coffee and he can decided to open HG Roastery. just spew off all kinds of information.”

“When it first opened, I never imagined She said that Vega is a perfectionist in that this could be possible,” says Kahn of HG coffee roasting and the kitchen.

Roastery. “It wasn’t conceptualized at first “We’re also doing delivery to businesses and now it’s building up and coming together within a 1-mile radius and there’s no and it’s so nice to be able to enjoy it.” delivery fee,” Kahn said. Additionally, HG The HG Roastery coffee beans come Roastery provides local catering and is from two different distributors—one adding corporate accounts for its coffee. located in Phoenix.

HG Roastery and Café is located at “All of our beans are fair trade and 2556 S. Val Vista Dr., Suite 101. Visit www. organic,” stated Cameron. hgroastery.com or call (480) 821-7020 for Vega roasts three nights a week so that additional information. the coffee shop can have the freshest coffee possible.

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