A new coffee shop just opened on the corner of Hamilton and Sharp. Well, sort of.

Garbage Goat Coffee Co. is the reimagining of a café called Roots Coffee Kitchen that closed down in the same spot in 2023, two years after opening. Both are owned by Amanda and Nick Byrd.

Though born and raised in Spokane, it was the time she spent in Southern California that inspired co-owner Amanda Byrd to create Roots – a health-conscious food option geared towards Gonzaga University students.

“My passion behind Roots was, I was really into the vegan, plant-based lifestyle, but it didn’t do as well as probably a city who lives in the sunshine,” she said. “I’m also not plant-based anymore.”

Byrd and her husband and business partner, Nick Byrd, closed down, subleasing their building to Tito’s Italian Bi

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