Metropolis Coffee Company is a coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

 roasting company and retailer located at 1039 W. Granville Avenue in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

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. The company supplies coffee to several Chicago-area cafes and restaurants, as well Chicago locations of Whole Foods

Whole foods

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. In 2005, they were named by Newcity

Newcity

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as the best place in Chicago to buy coffee beans, and noted for their donation of $2 to Oxfam for Tsunami

Oxfam

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, for each purchase of a pound of beans.

Metropolis was founded by father and son Jeff and Tony Dreyfuss, both of whom travel overseas to purchase their beans from countries including Peru

Peru

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 and Sumatra

Sumatra

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