Chucky’s Baristro in Kings Road, St Leonards, East Sussex

Chucky’s Baristro in Kings Road, St Leonards, opened three months ago. Cagri Turan, known as Chucky, explains more.

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00:00My coffee game started in 2000, very, very rare, with my uncle in Germany.

00:09In 2020, it starts in Bexelonzee, as a Chuck E.'s baristro, we're opening Bexelor Railways

00:18train station inside.

00:21We've been running there for three years, and then we've been opening here this year,

00:29three months ago.

00:30We've been searching here about three years to open a coffee shop in Kingsroad, in St.

00:37Leonards.

00:38What we're doing is specialty coffee, we're working very, very closely with our farmers.

00:45We know the farmers personally, and we're working with them very closely and we're asking

00:52them special things that he can do for the cafeterias, what we're reserving for them.

01:02I personally like South America, because the salts and the undergrounds are more sweet.

01:09The coffees are more tasty, more sweet, like strawberries, bananas, nutty, chocolatey.

01:19We do like different process of the coffees, like dry process, wash process, honey process.

01:29So we're following the season circle of the coffees, and this makes us have more control

01:37from the farm to the cup, from cherry to cup, we say, and we're roasting ourselves, our

01:46coffees with different profiles and different roasting styles.

01:51The plan is we want to expand it as a Chucky's Baristro, more coffee shops in Sussex.

01:59So we're already searching new places, bigger places with breakfast, brunch, and lunch.

02:10And we're trying to open also our showroom, because we want to do the roastery as a showroom

02:17that people can come and see all the process, how we're roasting the green coffee, returning

02:26to the brown, and then how it comes, all the process through by customers can see that.

02:36We like to do some showroom as a coffee shop showroom, and we have also wholesale, we're

02:45supporting also other coffee shops and other restaurants and other businesses as well with

02:51our coffees, so they're buying coffees from us.

02:55We're not commercial coffee, so what makes us different is that we're working very close

03:01to with the farmers, but we're also searching that our coffee farm is also specialty.

03:06So we're having harvest time from this year, so we're bringing fresh coffee, and we're

03:13roasting as we go.

03:15So we have all this fresh roasted and fresh grind as you see as well here.

03:20So every single cup, every single customer, anytime, whenever they come, they're gonna

03:26have here fresh coffee, fresh roasted coffee.

03:30So the coffees have dates, so you can't find here older than one month, two months coffee.

03:37We're having all these fresh coffee beans roasted by us, and we're promising this to

03:44our customers, this is what makes us different than others, and we're following the seasons

03:52as the coffee beans is growing on the trees.

03:57So the harvest time is this year, we're having this year's coffee, so this year's coffee

04:01we're not bringing for next year, because it's not specialty anymore, it's one year gone.

04:08We believe that, so that's why the customers, the first day, they will always get anytime

04:16the same coffee, same service from us, like first day.