For the love of Quality in life.

Brevede was born out of passion and determination to provide the best coffee has to offer, from quality in a cup to destination spaces where community builds and flourishes organically. Our lifelong involvement in volunteer and non-profit projects locally and around the world has been our priority and the birth of Brevede only expanded our capacity and heart to fund and participate where we know people are reached with help, provision and growth.

My husband, Nik and I are both from Europe, immigrating to America as kids from large families who arrived with only a $100 and a few suitcases, Nik’s from Belarus and I’m from Moldova. Our paths were extremely similar, taken in by sponsors who I’m pretty certain could be angels from above. The way they hosted, nurtured and guided our families towards success, we are forever grateful. Our experiences under the Soviet Union regime marked us deeply, leaving a desire to serve those less fortunate with every opportunity and taking nothing for granted, family, food, ability to work, create, build and encourage. Growing up in Washington state, we met, got married and started our family in 2004 stepping into our calling of servanthood together.

I discovered my artistic side at 10 years old when I just arrived in the US, a sweet artist befriended our family and invited me to her studio to paint with her granddaughter, she later brought me home with excitement showing off my very first acrylic painting, telling my parents, “she’s an artist”! I had not known I could even draw until that moment because it was something I did not have an opportunity to try before. My creative & entrepreneur endeavors expanded as a stay at home mom, driven to help out financially. I took on projects in the Event industry, started baking and selling gourmet desserts, wedding cakes, event planning and design, hair styling, florals and even dabbled in wedding photography. I discovered the challenge of a blank canvas was where I thrived most, possibility was based on willingness to try new things and ability to stretch capacity by slamming the door in the face of fear. I went on to be a Real Estate Agent, built a Designer Finishes company and a Logistics Brokerage company which my husband still runs.

In 2017, with our three daughters, we moved to Lexington, KY, in a nutshell, it’s a God story because we never saw it coming nor were we looking to move out of WA state. While we had the flexibility to work from home, we dove into building our first house and taking on other construction projects. Even though we quickly fell in love with the Bluegrass, we found ourselves longing for the coffee culture we grew up with in Seattle, WA, lingering in coffee shops where the same care went into every cup as into the space around us. Those moments shaped our belief that beautiful surroundings and exceptional coffee belong together. So we dove into a Coffee dream knowing quality would be at the heart of everything we did and every detail held to the highest standard. Our hope was that it would expand our reach in funding more non-profit projects, serve our community and guarantee a healthy, quality flow of Espresso for ourselves and those we love.

We were all in!

As I began to bring the coffeeshop vision to life, Nik was fully on board to support and drink all the test batches while rolling up his sleeves and DIY’ing way more than he bargained for. In fact, the many sleepless nights that brought Brevede to life is also where Brevede showed up for us and fueled us to keep moving. Life is best when it intertwines with grit, wild endeavors, great coffee and people worth doing it with and for.

As with anything worthwhile, we had to overcome a few bumps along the way or maybe an uphill battle is more accurate. While we were in search of a Brick & Mortar spot in 2018, I had the great idea to build a Mobile Coffee Bar, I’ve never seen one before, just coffee trucks, so my wheels began to spin as I started putting a plan on paper and sold it to Nik by saying, we will save on overhead costs, we can take the coffeeshop experience straight to the customer, Weddings will love it and it will be a less overwhelming way we can introduce the area to our brand. I asked him, ”if I land a first client, can we get started?” He saidYES! But, he didn’t count on that we would have our first client locked in almost immediately and I promised them we would be ready to serve in a month and a half. To say we were overwhelmed would be an understatement. As the first and only mobile third-wave coffee bar in our area, we were booked every week from day one. What began as an ambitious dream soon helped spark a movement of Mobile Coffee Bars, people were watching us from around the country and so many calls started coming in from all over seeking advice. I found out that my brother in law decades ago ran a Mobile Bar in Washington for a coffee company, this wasn’t new but we were still on the forefront of something beautiful. Creating & innovating is what excites me in any venture, I love that great things always come with a story. Through serving events, we came upon our current location at the Pepper Distillery District. In January of 2020 we quarantined by rolling up our sleeves, building, permits, plumbing, electrical, sourcing trees for our bar tops, restoring an old fence for our bar, furniture, equipment, painting, cleaning, hiring, training and so on. A big part of that was spending valuable time with some of the most prominent CEO’s of successful coffeeshops in New York, Washington, Colorado, and many others, including our Coffee Scientist, Matt M. ( who still works with us) and latte art lessons from World Latte Art Champions, because if we were going to offer a product, it needed to be the best. As we're all aware, covid shut down hit March 2020, we were left holding a key to an empty box in the Distillery District, so we kept going, our Mobile Bar Service came to a halt but the brick & mortar became our hiding place, our escapism, our all or nothing. Everyone asked the same question, are you not afraid?

You know, FEAR was the word of the year apparently and I learned first hand that to run from it or escape it by avoiding and hiding is not the best answer. You can, however, recognize it, understand its’ role and move forward with authority not giving it life over your mindset and your actions. Just because something is hard and scary, it’s not reason enough to avoid it. If you would love to hear more of our gold nuggets, personal stories and receive Art Prints by me, you can subscribe at the very bottom to;

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Thankfully, in September 2020 we were able to open our physical doors and let the wonderful humans we missed out on so much start flooding in. Things looked a little different than planned – X’s on the floors to keep social distance, 50% of chair capacity set up, but still all smiles behind the masks, we were overjoyed even though we worked 6am to midnight our first day open and you all never stopped coming!

THANK YOU! From the bottom of our hearts to infinity, THANK YOU!

As passionate as we are about coffee and making an excellent product with high-quality beans and some pretty fancy equipment, the coffee aspect was always second to us. First, we love community – to see people gathering together over a cup of coffee to build some ridiculously good memories, celebrate a new life event, catch up, study or just get away from life hassles and relax for a bit.

Our name Brevede is a play on the word brevity, which means "shortness of time." The goal was to create a space where people could go to slow down and enjoy their time a bit deeper. Time passes by so quickly and it’s a precious gift we all can give one another, pause and enjoy the little things with the people we love!

We've met so many kind and wonderful souls, heard thousands of great life stories, built new friendships, and have been able to do it all with being extremely blessed by the people behind the scenes, behind our bars, the ones who make this massive machine keep running, our employees, our TEAM, big THANKS to the smiles, efforts, time they’ve given to the little Coffeeshop that could.. 

We enjoy hosting events, whether private or public and love every chance we get to interact with the community.

May our place become part of your journey to savor moments with a great cup of coffee! 

Thank you for visiting, we hope to see you soon!

God bless, 

Viorika Kopets