La Barba Coffee, which has two locations in Salt Lake City and one Draper — and a devotion to sustainable beans — serves Utah’s best cup of joe, according to a national list released Monday.
Josh Rosenthal launched the roasting company six years ago and today sells a mix of fair-trade, direct-trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified coffees. It’s a philosophy that helped it rise to the top of Food & Wine’s 2019 “Best Coffee in Every State" list.
“Since 2012, Utah’s best has been on a mission, multiple missions, actually, working not only to make great coffee accessible to everyone, without pretense,” wrote author David Landsel, “but also to keep their sourcing sustainable, with the goal of producers earning a living wage for the beans that La Barba buys.