College Hill neighborhood getting a new craft coffee shop with an ‘Instagrammable’ vibe
College Hill will add a new coffee shop later this summer — one with a vibrant 1970s vibe, the owner says.
Coffee Daze is a new project by Tiffany Tran, a Wichita native with years of restaurant and coffee shop experience. She’s taking over the 1,900 square-foot space at 3236 E. Douglas that was once home to an optometry office and an art gallery. The spot is a couple of doors west of Himali Eats and directly east of The Kitchen Place.
Tran hopes to have it open by late August.
Coffee Daze will serve craft coffee drinks, she said, and it will also offer food items like avocado toast, pastries and other grab-and-go options.
She’s starting from scratch with the interior but says it will have seating for 25 to 30 people with couches, window bar seating and a big community table.
“It will be a vibrant, Instagrammable location,” she said. “The look I’m going for is more of a vibrant, bring-back-the-’70s feel with some modern touches.”
Tran, who graduated from Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School and also attended Newman University, has spent the last six years living in Dallas, where she has lots of family. During her time there, she said, she’s been honing her knowledge of the coffee business by working with her brother, who is a coffee roaster, and her cousin, who has a coffee shop in Ft. Worth.
She’s been working in the restaurant industry since she was 18, she said, and she was part of the crew that in 2017 helped open PokeMix at 8918 W. 21st St. She also worked at Crafted at 9730 E. 21st St. North. Tran said she’s moving back to Wichita next month so that she can focus on Coffee Daze.
Tran said her parents’ first home was in College Hill, and she felt drawn to the neighborhood when she decided to start her business.
“I just love the community that coffee brings, and now the trend of craft coffee and roasters is a little more what people enjoy rather than typical Starbucks and Dunkin’,” she said.
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