Anticonquista Café Brings ‘Cultivo-To-Cup’ Coffee To Pilsen

Block Club Chicago / by Francia Garcia Hernandez / February 20, 2025

PILSEN — A Chicago couple known for selling coffee grown on their Honduran and Guatemalan family farm is bringing a brick-and-mortar shop to Pilsen’s 18th Street corridor.

Anticonquista Café, a beloved coffee seller at Chicago farmers markets, is set to open March 2 at 952 W. 18th St. The cafe will be open 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, with plans to open daily in the late spring, said co-owners Elmer Fajardo Pacheco and Lauren Reese.

“I hope people will support Anticonquista Café not only for our coffee and the quality of our beans, but I’m really open to share my experience and what goes into growing coffee … so we can really change the coffee industry,” Fajardo Pacheco said. Read More Here.