Salento is a small pueblo in the coffee growing region of Colombia. Surrounded by beautiful mountains, it sits at an altitude of 1900 meters (6234 feet) making it a prime location for some of Colombia’s best coffee beans.
This little town is also the gateway to the spectacular Cocora Valley, home to la palma de cera, also known as the wax palm. The wax palm is the world’s tallest palm tree in the world and stands proudly as Colombia’s national tree.
Salento’s brightly painted doors and balconies line the narrow streets where the Abuela behind Salento Colombian Coffee & Kitchen played as a little girl. It was in this coffee growing town that she learned recipes from her grandmother, which she would one day pass down to her own children thousands of miles away in the city of New York.