G. and I caught these signs on Thursday morning in the windows of 310 Greenwich just next to Washington Market Park — Toby’s Estate Coffee Roasters. It seems this space is finally being activated after years of quiet. I have a note in to the company, which is based in Australia.

B. also caught the signs this past weekend and sent in this bit of background: “In the world of coffee, Toby’s is legendary and on the lists of the best roasters in the world. Originally from Sydney, they had two outposts in NYC not long ago [they opened in 2015] (Williamsburg and West Village), but it appears they had a falling out with their U.S. partners at some point and those locations were renamed (ironically) as Partners Coffee [in 2019]. I’ve been to some of their Sydney locations as well as the original ones in NYC and they were all amazing. Very happy to have this right across the street from my apartment.”

They have tons of cafes in Australia, plus a few scattered across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait.

The company was founded in 1997 by Toby Smith, an Australian lawyer who ditched his day job to travel the world to learn coffee production, then turned his mother’s garage into a mini roastery. If LinkedIn is up to date, he is still the president and CEO.