Carabello Coffee Company
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Carabello Coffee Company, "Coffee & Compassion in Tandem"
🅿️ Parking
You can find free street parking in the surrounding neighborhood. Depending on where you park, you may have to take a short walk to get to the shop.
🐶 Pet Friendliness
There are a few seating options outside where your pets are more than welcome. However, they will not be allowed to follow you inside.
👨🦽 Wheelchair Accessibility
Carabello is spacious and certainly wheelchair-accessible. There is a sudden downward slop in the flooring past the Analog Bar, so beware…or enjoy the ride 😉
☕️ What to Order
1. Iced Mocha Latte
2. Lavender Latte (with oat milk)
3. Cortado
4. Croissants (specifically almond)
My Experience
I have a few friends in the Newport area, and I ran into one of them at Carabello after I spent hours there staring at my laptop screen. My bloodshot, baggy eyes brightened as I caught him quickly stopping in for a coffee. I say this because I think our two Carabello experiences that day portray the shop well. As for me, I find Carabello’s atmosphere to be perfect for working long periods of time. It’s spacious and bright, with modern industrial and urban decor, and full of happy people. The baristas bring your order to your table and frequently walk around the shop, cleaning up or chatting with customers. Yet, for my friend, it also served as merely the source of his afternoon coffee. You look out the window and see locals trotting by, some stopping in for a quick drink. Or you look around the shop and see people like me, those who drove miles to get to a spot that welcomes them like home.
The shop is large, split into three major rooms, each carrying their own vibe. The first space you walk into gives that rustic industrial feel with its wood-planked counter, dark wooden floor, worn-brick walls, and exposed-vent ceiling. Take a right into the next room and suddenly things get a bit cozier. The rustic wood is now soft and bright, the walls now painted a soft blue. It’s like if Bob Evans turned urban, and the customers dropped a few decades in age. Walk back across the first room and enter the left wing, in which you’ll find the Analog bar. This is somewhat of a chef’s table experience where a barista will show off their craft, designing signature, seasonal, and unique drinks. The vibe is a bit more intimate, being only a bar-top with six seats at which customers can chat with the barista and order their specialty drinks. Keep on walking (beware of the slight downhill slant) and you’ve entered my favorite space and the biggest of all. Here, we’ve picked back up the rustic industrial feel, lightened by a fully-windowed far wall and creative doodle collage right-side wall. This space has plenty of options for seating, suitable for loners, couples, and groups.
