{"id":87892,"date":"2025-12-18T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/?p=87892"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:48:40","slug":"ground-hideout-coffee-seasonal-drinks-honduras-family-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/ground-hideout-coffee-seasonal-drinks-honduras-family-legacy","title":{"rendered":"A family-run cafe with hand-crafted drinks carries a coffee legacy from Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the wall of Ground Hideout Coffee in downtown Long Beach, there\u2019s an important photo on the wall. In it, one of Andrea Bonilla\u2019s two brothers stands next to a coffee plant on a farm where they used to roast and sell their beans locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a reminder, Bonilla explained, of where their dream began and how it\u2019s grown into a successful, meticulously-run family business that now serves up sandwiches, espresso and popular seasonal drinks like their Brown Butter Latte and Candy Cane Mocha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMy family in Honduras, we had a coffee farm, so we\u2019ve always been around coffee,\u201d said Bonilla. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family arrived in the United States in 2004 with the dream of building their own business and settled in Long Beach, but it wasn\u2019t until 2016 that the idea of a coffee shop began to form. They secured a storefront at 356 E Fourth St. in February 2019, Bonilla said, but it was a struggle to get the sign-offs they needed to open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea Bonilla, left and her mother Sue Bonilla work at the family coffee shop: Ground Hideout. Photo by Romi Mathews.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was very stressful. Long Beach didn\u2019t make it easy to get all your permits,\u201d Bonilla said, adding that the Health Department was the toughest part of the process and that the family paid rent for months before being allowed to sell their first cup of coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Ground Hideout finally launched, the menu was simple: coffee and pastries. But as the shop found its rhythm, the family began adding a small selection of proudly made-in-house food items to their growing menu, such as their sunrise sandwich, turkey panini and their caprese melt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonilla said that the goal has always been to serve items that are \u201cfresh and made with love\u201d because the family genuinely loves what they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonilla, who oversees the shop\u2019s day-to-day operations and develops new drinks, said she keeps a close eye on consistency, making sure every barista follows the recipes exactly as they\u2019re designed to ensure quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea Bonilla of the Ground Hideout Coffee. Photo by Romi Mathews.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Behind the counter, each shot is weighed and timed by hand on a semi-automatic espresso machine. The shop uses ristretto shots, a shorter, more concentrated pull of espresso that gives their drinks a richer and smoother flavor. Beyond their day-to-day, seasonal drinks have become one of many defining features of Ground Hideout Coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonilla began creating seasonal menus because smaller coffee shops rarely offered them at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wanted customers to have fun and flavorful options outside of the larger, well-known coffee chains like Starbucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sign in front of Ground Hideout Coffee. Photo by Romi Mathews.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She also loves the idea of a drink that not only looks good but tastes good and \u201cwhere you can taste the coffee and the flavors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their Orange Cardamom Latte is a year-round favorite, and their Cookie Butter Drinks have quickly become a standout in their winter drink collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bonilla family has plans to expand within the next year and a half and said they could not be more grateful for the community support.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ground Hideout Coffee is at 356 E. Fourth St. It\u2019s open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea Bonilla grew up around coffee. She now develops the signature drinks \u2014 like the Orange Cardamom Latte and s\u2019mores-themed Campfire Latte \u2014 at her family\u2019s shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":87882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32365,6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32373],"class_list":["post-87892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eat","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87893,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87892\/revisions\/87893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87892"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=87892"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=87892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}