“I’ve been drinking it since I was 5,” Suire said. “I’m from south Louisiana, a very poor area, so chicory coffee is what I would drink as a kid. As I grew up, seven days a week, all my life, I drank coffee. I love coffee.”
Suire and his business partner, Andy Cunningham, paired up to open Golden Boy Coffee and Cocktails in Denton in 2017. Prior to that, they both worked for Ascension, a local coffee, food and wine chain, where they worked as baristas. Cunningham was also the director of coffee operations. Suire said he was a manager and general contractor, and he would open new locations around the metroplex.
In February 2021, Suire opened Golden Boy Coffee & Wine Bar at The Boardwalk at Granite Park in Plano.
“[For] a lot of people who open coffee shops, we feel they are somebody who wants to play coffee, but they don’t really know anything about it,” he said.
Suire served up a brief history lesson about what he calls the third-wave coffee shop.
“Coffee started a long time ago, obviously, when that magic bean happened,” he said. “The second wave of coffee happened in the ‘70s with Starbucks. Then, in the 2000s, the third wave came in when coffee shops became more unique [and] interesting, coming up with new ideas, styles, flavor profiles, how we brew, how we roast.”
In addition to a wide variety of coffee options, Golden Boy Coffee & Wine Bar customers will also find national and international wines as well as edibles, such as housemade breakfast tacos and paninis.
Suire said some customers are surprised by the laid-back vibe.
“Staff gets to dress how they want, be who they want, have any type of haircut they want,” he said. “We want people to be themselves and enjoy their jobs. That’s really cool, and the culture surprises a lot of people.”
Golden Boy Coffee & Wine Bar, 5880 SH 121, Ste. 102A, Plano. 214-499-6726. www.goldenboycoffee.com/plano Hours: Sun.-Thu. 7 a.m.-8 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 7 a.m.-10 p.m.
