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Things I eat every time I’m in Huila, no matter what 😋🇨🇴 Which one would you try? 👇 Pick a one…
10/13/2026

Things I eat every time I’m in Huila, no matter what 😋🇨🇴 Which one would you try? 👇 Pick a one…

Some moments from Neiva that I’ll carry with me for a long time 🇨🇴Kids tasting coffee like pros. Farmers sharing their f...
10/12/2026

Some moments from Neiva that I’ll carry with me for a long time 🇨🇴

Kids tasting coffee like pros. Farmers sharing their family’s story over a cup. Hugs from the people who grow the coffee we serve every day in Chicago.

This is why Cielito exists: to bring you specialty coffee straight from farmers in Huila, Colombia, and to make sure the world knows their names 💜

📍 Huila → Chicago

Thank you Huila: Café, Cacao y Agroturismo MURG LAB SENA Huila ComitéMURG LABtSENA HuilauComité de Cafeteros del HuilaCoffee CielitoParadise

54,000 runners. One unforgettable day in Chicago 🏅Congrats to every runner, and to everyone who came out to cheer 💜 I sa...
10/11/2026

54,000 runners. One unforgettable day in Chicago 🏅

Congrats to every runner, and to everyone who came out to cheer 💜 I saw Colombians running… Que orgullo ☕🇨🇴

From the farms of Huila, Colombia, to Chicago ☕🇨🇴Last week I was tasting coffee with the farmers who grow it. This week,...
10/09/2026

From the farms of Huila, Colombia, to Chicago ☕🇨🇴

Last week I was tasting coffee with the farmers who grow it. This week, 2,000 lbs of their coffee landed at our shop, freshly roasted and ready for you.

In town for the Chicago Marathon? 🏃‍♀️ Whether you’re running or cheering, come grab a coffee with us. 100% Colombian, straight from the farmer.

📍 1134 W Belmont Ave. Chicago IL

This is my Friday recap from Huila: Café, Cacao y Agroturismo 🇨🇴A coffee & cacao fair in Huila, Colombia, where all our ...
10/03/2026

This is my Friday recap from Huila: Café, Cacao y Agroturismo 🇨🇴
A coffee & cacao fair in Huila, Colombia, where all our coffee comes from.

Come with me 👉

Every year we sponsor a coffee tasting competition here for kids, teens and women from coffee families. This is the team getting ready 📸 amazing work from SENA Huila

With the peopSENA Huilae this happen. They invite us every year and it always feels like coming home 💜 Comité de Cafeteros del HuComité de Cafeteros del HuilalGobernación del Huilaturismo

The kids’ round starting. They taste and score coffee like the pros… and they’re 8 to 12 years old 🤯

Then they asked me to do it in front of everyone. I was so nervous lol 😅 the kids do it way better

Then I sat down with these two young women, daughters of coffee farmers. They told me all about their family’s farm and their coffee. Like this I have few great meetings with around 10+ different groups wanted to do business with us… all about coffee ❤️

Getting an interview and she asked me “why a brand and a coffee shop from Chicago comes all the way here. Easy answer: the farmers 💜

Amazing organization for the entire event from Agrilink

A whole table of coffees from farmers whoAgrilinkf selling in the US. I tried every single one ☕ thank you MURG Café Especial 🇨🇴 Specialty Coffee and team for MURG Café Especial 🇨🇴 Specialty Coffeeshowed up. He grows the Papayo Etíope Natural we have at the shop. He drove more than 3 hours with his wife and kids just to give me a hug and say thank you. Honestly, this hug is for all of you who’ve bought his coffee 🥹

They also invited me to taste the coffees going to auction today. Pretty cool to be part of that.

7pm and I was tired lol. But a couple of coffees still had me thinking, so I tasted them one more time.

And to end the night: live music, my dad and a b**r. After that much coffee, I needed it 😂🍺 Huila: Café, Cacao y Agroturismo

Have you ever had a coffee that came straight from the farmer who grew it? 👉 This one sat fermenting for 500 hours befo...
09/22/2026

Have you ever had a coffee that came straight from the farmer who grew it? 👉 This one sat fermenting for 500 hours before I even roasted it. Let me show you what that does.

So let’s take 22 grams. My ratio is 1:14, so that puts me at 308 grams of water. When a farmer waits three weeks on a harvest, you don’t eyeball it. But the part almost everybody gets wrong is next 👉👉

The GRIND. This is where most people lose it at home. Too fine and it goes bitter on you. Too coarse and you’re basically drinking water. It should feel like table salt. Tell me honestly, do you grind at home or buy it pre-ground?

No judgment here 😬🫣

Water at 90 celsius. Everybody goes hotter, I don’t, because heat kills the fruit in a coffee like this. First 50 grams, then I wait 45 seconds and watch it breathe.

If you want to taste one made right, we’re at:

📍1134 W Belmont Ave Chicago IL

At 45 seconds I go again, up to 180. At a minute thirty, the rest. Slow circles, never on the edges. You rush this part and you throw away everything you just did. One more thing to see 👉

Three weeks of fermentation, three minutes of pouring, and that face right there. That’s the whole reason I do this. Come sit at the bar and let me make you one…

📍1134 W Belmont Ave Chicago IL

For four years, Cielito only existed online. My wife and I packed every bag of coffee at our kitchen table, and I drove ...
09/20/2026

For four years, Cielito only existed online. My wife and I packed every bag of coffee at our kitchen table, and I drove them to the post office myself. Then we signed a lease on a street where nobody knew our name, and taped this sign in the window. We had no idea if anyone would come…

This room sat empty for eight months, but it was never quiet. From August to April there were always people in here, painting, sanding, fixing whatever broke that week. And plenty broke. But nobody in here was just doing a job. Every single one of them put their heart into a place that wasn’t even theirs, and you can still feel it when you sit down. I think about them every time I open.

I climbed up and did this part myself. I needed to. This was a name my wife and I had carried for four years, finally going up on a wall where strangers could read it. I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous about a sign.

The day this roaster came through the door, everything changed. It meant nobody else would ever roast our coffee for us. We control every batch, right here in the room, and the farmers in Huila who grow it finally have someone roasting it who knows their names. For a small family shop, that used to be impossible ☕️

At this point everyone had gone home. It was just me on the floor at one in the morning, putting together every table in this shop, one by one. So if one of them wobbles, that’s on me. I built it 🫣

We walked past this corner a hundred times before it was ours. Now it’s the first thing I see at five in the morning, keys in my hand, before the city wakes up.

Our coffee comes from different farmers in Huila, Colombia. That’s a long way from Chicago. Some mornings I still can’t believe it, a small town most people here have never heard of, in a cup on Belmont Avenue in CHICAGO 🥹

No blends. No middlemen. Nobody in between deciding what a farmer’s work is worth. We buy directly from the family that grows it, and their region, name goes on the bag. That was the whole reason to open this shop in the first place 👍

My family built this with me from the very first bag to the very last chair. Our daughter has practically grown up inside these walls. On the hard days,

Fall in love with Cielito 💜Three new drinks. Saturday Sept 12, 7am–7pm. We spent weeks testing, tossing, testing again. ...
09/09/2026

Fall in love with Cielito 💜

Three new drinks. Saturday Sept 12, 7am–7pm. We spent weeks testing, tossing, testing again. these three made it.

All built on the coffee we bring straight from farmers, our producer in Neiva, Huila. Made possible with Califia Farms , Elmhurst 1925 and Rishi Tea & Botanicals 🍂🍁

S’MORES LATTE ☕️

Honey and mocha, marshmallow foam, honey roasted pecans, and cocoa. Campfire in a cup. And yes, we torch the marshmallow ourselves.

Made with Califia Farms oat milk 🤎

ESMERALDA MATCHA 🍵

The best Matcha from Rishi, arequipe, pistachio milk from Elmhurst, coconut foam, and crushed pistachio.

The arequipe takes the edge off the matcha. Creamy, never bitter. This is the one you don’t expect to fall for.

Rishi Tea & Botanicals matcha and Elmhurst 1925 pistachio milk 🤎

COLOMBIAN LATTE WITH AGUAPANELA 🇨🇴

Aguapanela slow-infused with our secret spice blend.. Coconut foam, grated panela, and coconut on top.

This is how coffee is actually made back home. If you grew up on aguapanela, this one is going to hit different.

Made with Califia Farms oat milk 🤎

PUMPKIN COLD FOAM 🎃

Our seasonal cold foam is officially pumpkin (Because you asked.)… Put it on anything… cold brew, latte, whatever you order. Just ask your barista.

First 25 purchases get a fall drink on us. See you Saturday.

09/09/2026

Lo logramos. ❤️🇨🇴

$7,380.80 para la Cruz Roja Colombiana Más de mil personas llegaron a Cielito Paradise Coffee y convirtieron un día durísimo para Colombia en algo bonito.

No tengo cómo agradecerles. Desde Chicago, siempre con Colombia en el corazón.

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