Mulata Kitchen opened in the west Chicago suburb in the summer of 2019 as the dream of Christiane Pereira. It is open 6 days a week and serves Brazilian coffee and food.

“As I am serving my coffee, it is not only about my coffee, but its the people that roasted the coffee, and the people that produced the coffee, and the people that grew the coffee in Brazil,” she said.

You can read the full story in Fall Issue 2019