Santos Coffee

Santos Coffee Farmers is a coffee grower, importer, roaster and coffee shop owned by sisters Wendy Padilla-Madden and Katie Ellis.

Ellis manages the coffee growing operation in western Guatemala, where the two sisters were raised as fifth-generation growers. Padilla-Madden, who also runs Global Business Advisors and formerly ran The Crimson Café in Tuscaloosa, manages the retail chain.

Santos opened their first café in Birmingham in 2019 and have since expanded to seven locations.

Locations

• Massey Business College building, 2024 3rd Avenue North (opened August 2019)
• Uptown, 2221 Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North
• 1009 Fulton Avenue, Gardendale (opened July 28, 2023)
• 2908 18th Street South, Homewood
• 2738 Cahaba Road, Mountain Brook (opened 2022)
• Village at Brock's Gap, 1021 Brocks Gap Parkway, Hoover
• Altadena Square, 4700 Cahaba River Road (opened December 2022)

References

• "Santos Coffee plans Gardendale location." (July 13, 2022) Birmingham Business Journal
• O'Leary, A. J. (August 30, 2022) "Santos Coffee location coming to Mountain Brook." Birmingham Business Journal
• O'Leary, A. J. (September 6, 2022) "Plans for future locations on horizon for Santos Coffee." Birmingham Business Journal

External links

• Santos Coffee Farmers website
• Santos Coffee on Facebook.com