Fresh Flowers at the Bar: DayRosse Bouquets at Alere

Fresh flowers from DayRosse arrive midweek and stay next to our bar until they sell out. Every delivery brings something different, and what you see today may be gone tomorrow.

There are flowers at the bar now

If you come by this week you'll find something new next to the register: a bucket of fresh flowers and a few finished bouquets. They're not decoration. They're bouquets you can take home with your coffee, made by Citlali of DayRosse, right here in Colonia Americana.

They arrive midweek and last as long as they last

There's no menu of arrangements to browse and no fixed model you can order. The flowers arrive midweek, and whatever arrives becomes that delivery's bouquets. If they go the same day, that's it; if not, they stay until someone takes them home. It's while supplies last, with no midweek restock. So what's on the bar today may be gone tomorrow, and next week's delivery won't look like this one.

Why flowers in a coffee shop

We've been saying for a while that Alere is a place to pause on purpose. The flowers aren't just another product on the counter: they're that same idea in another form. We usually buy flowers when we're supposed to — a birthday, an apology, a date circled on the calendar — and that's why they end up feeling like an errand. A bouquet next to the bar returns them to the everyday. You can take one home on an ordinary Thursday, for no reason at all, on your way out. We like that small gesture more than any special occasion.

How to take one home

You can take one straight from the bar, or buy it on DayRosse's online store and choose to pick it up here at Alere at no charge, during café hours — always up to date on our contact page. If you'd rather have it delivered somewhere else, DayRosse offers same-day delivery in Guadalajara and the metro area for orders placed before 2 PM. You can add a handwritten note if the bouquet is for someone else.

Buy online, pick up at Alere

They're made by Citlali, from DayRosse

Citlali isn't new around here. In June she taught her floristry course at Alere: six hours, ten people and three arrangements everyone took home made with their own hands. We liked how she works, and we liked how this place looked full of flowers and focused people. Having her work here for good is how that stops being a once-a-year Sunday. Come for your coffee and take a look at what's there.