Café Tintamarre

Café Tintamarre Tiny Café and Micro roasters of fair trade, organic coffees. Hello! Answer: la mola or la macina--pronounced MA-chee-na.
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Origin of a name

We thought of calling our Saturday morning farmers' market pop-up take-out café Grindstone Café. We hesitated... I looked at the logo Peter Stephenson had created with some paint he had on hand, saw the colours of the Italian flag, wondered "what is 'grindstone' in Italian? It made me think of machine, which is la macchina, pronounced MA-kee-na, and both words are from Latin, mac

hine, and ultimately Greek, maykanay. Coffee grinder is macinacaffè, and according to Pete, the grinder is of extreme importance in the making of a good espresso. Then I thought of the expression 'deus ex machina', a kind of miraculous or contrived solution to a problem, first applied to ancient Greek plays, where a god would appear from the clouds and resolve the chaos.
2020 has been quite the chaotic year, and it's not over yet! We need some god to emerge from a device or machine and set things straight, save us from our folly. Or maybe a god from our grinder...deus ex macina.

This post is 100% less ambiguous than yesterday's. Come in for a cinnamon brioche.
07/29/2026

This post is 100% less ambiguous than yesterday's. Come in for a cinnamon brioche.

07/28/2026
Art of Eating deli in Amherst has such delicious lemonades and soups! Brazilian lemonade and Roasted red pepper gf soup,...
07/27/2026

Art of Eating deli in Amherst has such delicious lemonades and soups! Brazilian lemonade and Roasted red pepper gf soup, perfect.

Wacky wavy guy loves his solar panel! It's going to be a stunning day at Sackville Farmers Market
07/25/2026

Wacky wavy guy loves his solar panel! It's going to be a stunning day at Sackville Farmers Market

My 87 year old neighbour said he was out of coffee. So I dropped some off, while he was out and filled his cute little c...
07/24/2026

My 87 year old neighbour said he was out of coffee. So I dropped some off, while he was out and filled his cute little container. I imagine a lot of you have cute containers like this on your counter. Imagine having a little coffee roaster next door, producing organic fair trade coffee? Well you do! This great service has weaned him from stale grocery store beans, and I get instant feedback. Win win.

Coffee platypus? Thank you, Faro!
07/19/2026

Coffee platypus? Thank you, Faro!

Lovely views, on a misty rainy day.
07/19/2026

Lovely views, on a misty rainy day.

playing hooky and picking haskaps at the VineriedesfruitsWinery in St Andre. not far from Cap Pélé. Aniie and Jeff are m...
07/13/2026

playing hooky and picking haskaps at the VineriedesfruitsWinery in St Andre. not far from Cap Pélé. Aniie and Jeff are musicians, farmers and Wine makers. Pretty fabulous spot and great u-picking! the wine is amazing too, they win many awards!

07/09/2026

We're bringing noisemakers to the protest! Exit 504, 3-5pm, TODAY! NO RIGS

Address

34 Mallard Drive
Sackville, NB
E4L4C3

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 7am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm
Sunday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+15065880343

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