City & State removing retail side to focus on coffee
Mimsy Milnor makes a latte at City & State on Broad Avenue on Feb. 27. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Longtime City & State patron Rachel Mattson has mixed feelings about what’s happened at the Broad Avenue coffee shop.
Her first impression of City & State was the coffee side of the business, but throughout the years, she’s also been a regular customer of the store’s retail side, purchasing gifts for loved ones and sometimes for herself.
Mattson spent about a decade living in Boston and Minneapolis for school before returning to Memphis about 10 years ago. Her return was shortly after City & State made its debut.
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Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
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