Rugged Coffee is a beverage catering cart that serves Coffee, Pastries, and Ice Cream. Some people call us a mobile coffee bar, while some refer to us as espresso catering, but we call ourselves Rugged Coffee. Our coffee catering bar is top notch, we use only the best ingredients and with our experience in the coffee and food industry, we are able to create the best recipes for everything we serve.

Coffee is a science. Knowing how the grind size interacts with the water when brewing, and how to adjust those items to create the perfect harmony between the two, is one aspect. Grind size is the easiest way to increase or decrease coffee extraction. Increasing coffee extraction can increase the density of the brew, while creating bitterness in the cup. Decreasing extraction can lighten the density of the brew and can create sourness in the cup. The ideal is creating the perfect extraction where the perfect balance of sugars and acidity is extracted and perceived in the cup. The other aspect of brewing (or extraction) is weighing each ingredient. Creating the perfect balance between the coffee grounds and water is key in whatever you are brewing. When creating a cart for conference catering, meeting catering, business event catering, or coffee cart for weddings you need to take that coffee science and make it scalable, so that you are able to serve delicious coffee beverages in a very short amount of time.

Not only do we use great coffee beans and the highest level of coffee science, but we also create our own specialty syrups for custom flavored latte’s. With these syrups, balance is the key, once again and we use high quality ingredients to create these balanced syrups. We’ve created such unique and custom flavors, some that you wont find anywhere else, such as our Apple Pie latte, or our tiramisu latte. Our extensive syrup list is found on the homepage of our website.

Lastly, you have great ingredients, now you need to compile everything and create a great tasting drink that has balance with all the ingredients. We have over 15 years of experience in the Specialty Coffee industry and we use that experience to help us create these perfect drinks for our mobile coffee carts for events. We know that once you try our coffee and tea catering, you’ll never want coffee from anywhere else.

Our Ice Cream catering and Pastries catering option is an upgrade that gets added to our espresso catering cart option. Our pastries come from an amazing local bakery called Eastbrew Cafe and with our ice cream we can create so many coffee drinks. We make the delicious and popular Affogato, or a Cold Brew Float. Guests have gotten creative and asked for a Matcha Float, a Mocha Float, or anything other iced coffee drink over ice cream to create that ice cream float. We know that our Coffee Bar Catering will not only wow you and your guests, but will make you dream of having our drinks again.