Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb2016

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story to tell.
Take, for exam-
ple, Saveurs Du
Monde Café,
where we talked
with owner
Thierry Chateau.
He gave up his
job as an attor-
ney in France to
travel around the
world on a
sailboat with his
wife, Christiane,
and two chil-
dren. They
home-schooled their kids during their five years at sea.
“Being an attorney was too much work, and there was
not enough time with the kids,” he said.
In May 2014, Thierry and Christiane decided it was
time for a new adventure, so they opened their French
café in Seaside Farms. In addition to coffee, the menu
includes a variety of breakfast, lunch, dinner and
dessert items.
The cup of black coffee Thierry served me was roasted
locally by King Bean Coffee Roasters. He pointed out
that coffee drinkers generally are creatures of habit who
appreciate the taste and aroma of a consistently good
cup of joe.
“We always have the same coffee. That’s what people
like,” he said.
Thierry said Saveurs Du Monde Café sold 28,400
cups of coffee from October 2014 to October 2015,
serving around 400 customers a day. And youngsters who
haven’t yet developed the urge to caffeinate are treated to
a small cup of hot chocolate.
Denise: I’d never ordered a mocha before, but, thanks
to the friendly owners of Saveurs Du Monde, I likely will
in the future. The heavenly drink they served me perked
me up – way up – and is made with espresso, steamed
milk, homemade chocolate from the cafe’s own kitchen
and a generous dollop of whipped cream. I was crazy-
awake when Brian and I left a while later – so I’ll prob-
ably be back after a late night out.
Saveurs Du Monde Café
1960 Long Grove Drive, Suite A and B
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
843-352-7498
Brown Fox CoFFee Co.
Brian: On most weekdays, rain or shine, you’ll find
Brown Fox Coffee in a gravel parking lot on Simmons
Street, just off Coleman Boulevard and across from
Moultrie Middle School. However, if you stop by for a
hot or cold cup of instant energy and the lot is empty,
you can always use Facebook or Instagram to find Biz
Foxworth and her coffee truck.
Biz and her 16-foot trailer have been in business since
February. Many of her loyal customers are teachers or
parents of students at Moultrie Middle, but the coffee
truck has also been at corporate events, farmers markets
and Charleston County School District seminars. Brown
Fox has traveled to the First Flush FesTEAval on Wad-
malaw Island and the Boone Hall Plantation Pumpkin
Patch, and, in November, Biz brought her own brand of
coffee lovers’ heaven to a local wedding.
Denise and I visited Biz on a beautiful Lowcountry
afternoon and enjoyed our caffeine fix at one of two
shaded tables along Simmons Street. Biz fixed me a
pour-over from medium-roasted beans grown on the La
Amistad Farm in
Costa Rica. She
said her custom-
ers also like a
dark roast from
Cameroon in
Africa. All her
coffee is roasted
by Lowcountry
Coffee Roasters.
Biz told us
she generally
serves around 80
cups of coffee a
day, from 7 a.m.
to 4 p.m. She
also sells CG Pra-
lines, peanut
butter energy
balls, muffins, scones and other snacks. She thinks she
has found her calling.
“I love coffee and I love people. And I always wanted
to be in the hospitality industry,” she said.
Denise: I go to visit Biz at the Brown Fox Coffee
Truck often enough that I have a couple of “usuals” – the
“I love coffee and I love people.”