One Thing I Love About Louisville: Matthew Landan of Derby City Espresso

I don't make it to Derby City Espresso nearly often enough since I don't live or work downtown but I've got to say I just love that DCE is there and that Matthew is doing so many cool events. He's a real asset to Louisville at large and particularly the downtown community.

As a non-native who's only been here 3 years, I have totally fallen in love with Louisville! as someone who has lived in all sorts of glam places including Italy, Germany, Chicago, Oregon, California I thought I would never find anyplace as cool as say Eugene, Oregon or Turin, Italy or Chaing Mai, Thailand... but here she is, this jewel of the mid-west, this crossroads between north and south, this river city filled with neighborhoods and quiet off-the-beaten-track times-past nostalgia.

Louisville is really behind the times. In a good way. Because nobody is looking you can almost get away with anything. There is this feeling I get living here that I've traveled back in time to the 70s, to a time when it was not all national strip-mall culture. I've come to rest in a place that is still jelly and ready to be molded. I could go on and on about why I love it here from specifics such as the way the road winds around the back of Cave Hill Cemetery to the sparse urban core.

Now if they had only not torn up the streetcars.

Matthew Landan is the owner of Derby City Espresso. In addition to having lived all over he has held many different jobs including Whole Foods slave boy, Crackerjack hot-dog vendor at Wrigley Field and LSD mogul on Grateful Dead tour. He reads Justice League of America comic books in between making coffee for downtown's finest.

Derby City Espresso
331 East Market Street
Louisville, KY