Café Con Leche

In October of 2012, Carlos Flores and Sandra DeSilva committed to a lifestyle change. They'd owned a café before but found brunches and baked goods a distraction from what they really wanted to be focused on: coffee.

The duo, who are partners both in business and in life, opened Café Con Leche on a sleepy strip of Dupont near Symington. While it was a bold move given the limited walk-by traffic, they also had no competition in the area. Carlos says the biggest surprise was that in the early morning pitch darkness of their first December and January in business, there were people coming in as soon as they opened their doors. “I’m so grateful,” he says. “Look around, there’s no walk-by traffic, and it would be cold, and dark, but there are people out there and they came.”