Europeans love our coffee. That’s the real test,” says Lee Rosaia, one-half of the Italian-American mother and daughter team who owns and runs the quaint beachfront coffee shop at boat Station 1 in Boracay. Stables Real Coffee and Tea is considered an institution in the island where it served its first steaming cup to sun-seeking tourists in 1996. Lee was already a resident of the island when she invited her daughter, Nadine, to join her. “But what would we do there?” Nadine asked. “We were sitting in a coffee shop in California at that time,” Lee relates, “so I said, well maybe we’ll open a coffee shop.”
They had no background whatsoever in running a coffee shop, but the very next day, “we were running around looking for coffee machines, looking for suppliers,” Lee recalls. “From there, it just took off.” The first shop they opened was smaller than the present one, which is not all that big either—more like a shack with wooden and bamboo tables, benches and stools, which is all part of its charm.
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