You’d be hard pushed to find a more hip place to grab a coffee in this country than Local. It’s part barber shop, part coffee spot and part streetware store selling trainers and clothing. But it’s the coffee we’re interested in. With beans from Dubai’s Seven Fortunes Coffee Roasters in every cup you can get…
Concept store LOCAL includes a coffee shop, barbershop is a single identity under one roof. Abu Dhabi World writer Ferdinand Godinez meets with co-founder Jack Brett to find out more. So, did you just wake up one day and think, I like coffee, trainers and a fresh haircut, there’s an idea in that? LOCAL came from a passion for sneakers and…
The concept store Locale Is this the coolest new space in Abu Dhabi? We think it might be. Part-barbershop, part-cafe, part-consignment store of hard-to-find sneakers, Local has recently opened in Al Zeina (near Yas Island) and is the joint effort of 10-year Abu Dhabi denizen Jack Brett and fellow twenty-something co-founders, UAE national Jasim Alkhouri and younger…