New SLO County coffee shop lets you print a photo right in your latte. See how

There’s a new coffee shop in town — and this one will let you print a photo of your face right in the foam of your latte.

Dulce Cafe opened Jan. 3 in Grover Beach, priding itself on its specialty Mexican drinks as well as some trendy new tech.

Owners Erik Rocha and Fernando Herrera told The Tribune they felt something was missing in the South County city, and thought of a Mexican coffee shop.

“It was important to us to bring something a little different to Grover Beach, meaning a Mexican-themed cafe,” Rocha said. “There’s not really anything in Grover Beach area that has that, so we wanted to incorporate a lot of our traditional Mexican candies into our lattes.”

The shop at 191 S. Oak Blvd. is not their first business venture: They both run Papi’s Hot Chicken food truck in Santa Maria.

“We’ve been friends forever,” Rocha said. “We started our food truck and then we started this, and it plays a bigger role, we give each other credit and everything.”

Dulce Cafe brings a “warm touch” beyond its specialty drinks with a unique machine that creates latte art from any photo, according to Rocha.

Customers can scan the QR code in the coffee shop and upload any picture from their phones for an eccentric, highly customized drink, Rocha said.

“There’s nothing around here like that,” Rocha said. “We’re kind of the first ones in the area to bring something different besides our authentic Mexican flavors in our coffees. I feel like it adds a warm touch to it — and it’s super cool.”

What’s on the menu at Dulce Cafe?

Dulce Cafe has all the classics: Americanos, cappuccinos and lattes. But its specialty lattes are the crowdpleasers, according to Rocha.

The coffee shop’s specialty lattes contain traditional Mexican candies, Rocha said.

The menu includes the mazapán latte, a drink with the traditional peanut-based candy, a Duvalín latte containing a mix of three chocolates and the cajeta latte, a dulce de leche drink.

For a small bite, Dulce also, of course, serves pan dulce, an authentic Mexican sweet bread and tortas de jamón.

For traditional coffees, price range from $4 to $6, while specialty drinks cost from $7 to $9. A mini pan dulce is $1.50 while a full size is $2. Tortas go for $9.99, according to Rocha.

For more information

Dulce Cafe is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 191 S. Oak Park Blvd. #1 in Grover Beach.

For more information, visit the coffee shop’s Instagram at instagram.com/dulcegroverbeach.