Olas Coffee (495 Lorimer St.) is a small-batch coffee company whose name translates to waves in Spanish. Olas opened a brick-and-mortar shop in February 2022 in the space that was previously home to Gimme Coffee, which closed in 2020.
Jeremiah Borrego, one of the owners, started Olas as a wholesale business about five years ago, while he worked in other coffee shops. “During that…
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