Peixoto Coffee: A Family Farm Story, Roasted in Chandler

From a Family Farm in Brazil to Downtown Chandler

Julia grew up in a coffee family in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where her grandfather built the family farm and her father, José Augusto, carried it into a third generation. She came to Arizona to study law, met Jeff, an aerospace engineer, and somewhere along the way the farm pulled them back. When her father could not get a fair price for the specialty beans he was growing, the couple made a bold call: leave their careers, start importing the family's harvest themselves, and roast it for a brand-new audience in Arizona.

The farm, Fazenda São José da Boa Vista, rests in the hills near the small town of Ibirací and has been in the family for more than one hundred years across four generations. What began as a way to help one farm grew into a model the company calls family trade, a step beyond fair trade and direct trade. Instead of selling beans to the middle of a long supply chain, the Peixotos grow, import, roast, and sell their own coffee, closing the loop from tree to cup. Along the way they added a small circle of exceptional growers from around the world, chosen for quality and for relationships that honor how the whole thing started.

What You'll Find on Boston Street

The flagship shop is a warm, modern cafe set in a historic downtown Chandler building, and the roaster lives right there with the espresso bar. You can watch beans tumble through the roaster, then order an espresso, a pour-over, or a house latte made with beans that came off the cooling tray only days earlier. There are pastries for pairing, retail bags of whole-bean Peixoto coffee, brewing gear, and merchandise to take a little of the farm home with you.

• Espresso drinks, pour-overs, and batch brew made with beans roasted in-house
• Fresh pastries and light bites for pairing with your cup
• Retail bags of whole-bean coffee, brewing equipment, and merch

Why the Eastside Should Rally Behind Them

Peixoto is a small business in the truest sense: a family, a farm, and a couple of people in Chandler who decided to do the importing, roasting, and serving themselves rather than hand the story to someone else. Every bag of beans bought on Boston Street supports that farm in Brazil, the roastery around the corner, and a downtown Chandler coffeehouse that makes this town feel like a town.

When you choose a local roaster over a drive-thru chain, you are voting for the places that give the Eastside its character. Peixoto is one of the good ones, and it sits right in the middle of a historic district worth lingering in: grab a cup, then wander the shops and patios of downtown Chandler. That is the Eastside at its best.