Olla Express Café owner Andrea Ley is credited with introducing traditional Mexican café de olla to San Antonio in 2019. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX SanAntonioFood SanAntonioRestaurants Coffee GroceryStores
You can now snag Olla Express Café’s bottled raw piloncillo syrup at select San Antonio H-E-B stores.
Coffee vendor Olla Express Café may not have snagged the top prize at last year’s H-E-B Quest for Texas Best contest, but the San Antonio-based business is still making its mark on the grocery giant’s shelves., which lets homegrown food businesses compete for cash and shelf space. While Olla Express owner and head coffee guru Andrea Ley’s bottled raw piloncillo syrup was bested by other products, the item appears to have made a lasting impression.
Olla Express uses the piloncillo syrup — a Mexican ingredient devoid of refined sugars and artificial flavors — as a sweetener in its many caffeinated concoctions. Ley also is credited with introducing café de olla, a Mexican coffee prepared in a traditional earthen clay pot, to San Antonio in 2019. “After I got the awesome experience of being one of the 20 H-E-B Quest for Texas Best finalists, I had amazing people from H-E-B contact me later to follow the process to get into the stores,” Ley told thevia email. “This process took some months, [but] we finally made it to the shelves, so our star product, raw piloncillo syrup, is in select local San Antonio H-E-Bs.”20935 US Highway 281 N
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