I quit drinking coffee last year in an unsuccessful attempt to silence the voices in my head. Apart from a few Starbucks-fueled road trips I’d been relatively caffeine free for months. So I was pretty out of shape when I drank—fairly inhaled—the Military Latte at Sawada Coffee. That’s the signature drink of champion latte artist Hiroshi Sawada, the namesake of the newish coffee shop attached to the back of Hogsalt Hospitality’s Green Street Smoked Meats. Sawada has five coffee shops back in Japan, but this, perched on an elevated platform facing Green Street in the back of GSSM, is his first stateside. You can get your pour-overs, your cortados, cappuccinos, and americanos, chai and green tea lattes, but what really seems to be fueling the spot is this double-barrel espresso-matcha convulsion in a cup.
Sawada Coffee, 112 N. Green, 312-754-0431, sawadacoffee.com
