Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb2016

and, for some reason, we chose to sit inside.

Sip is more than a coffee shop, offering breakfast,

lunch, dinner and desserts, as well as wine and beer.

Coffee, though, is its most impor-

tant commodity, at least in my

humble and sometimes overcaf-

feinated opinion. Mark set me up

with a mug of black coffee: no

sugar, no cream, no swirly design

staring back at me from the steaming hot liquid – the

way coffee is supposed to be consumed. My only issue

was the gargantuan size of the mug, forcing me to chug

rather than sip. Once coffee falls below a certain tem-

perature, it loses its allure – almost. I guess next time I

can request a smaller cup.

Mark said he chose King Bean

Coffee Roasters as his supplier on

the recommendation of a commit-

tee of taste-testers.

“Coffee drinkers are loyal.

People who come in once come back,” Mark remarked,

adding that Sip is the eighth business he’s started from

“I like to create a concept,

hire good people and get

out of the way.”