Craving coffee, ice cream or baked goods in Pine Mountain? This new shop has all 3
A new ice cream/bakery/coffee shop has opened in Pine Mountain, bringing Georgia Coffee, Florida ice cream and homemade cinnamon rolls to Harris County.
Pine Mountain Kitchen, 408 Main St., opened Jan. 5, serving coffee, desserts, breakfast sandwiches, ice cream and more. Husband-and-wife owners Kenny and Emily Terbrock started their business by selling at farmers markets, which led to creating this location in a former filling station.
“It’s been a dream of Emily’s to be able to serve people quality products and just get to meet people along the way,” Kenny told the Ledger-Enquirer, “and this is a great town to do it.”
The couple is from Sarasota, Florida, and moved seven months ago to Pine Mountain, where they have fallen in love with the town and its residents, he said.
They added the cinnamon rolls Emily makes to the menu after their kids suggested it, she said.
“It’s been a beautiful process just to watch other people outside of my family say, ‘Hey, this is really good,’ and just to know that I put my heart and soul into it and bring it to a community outside the family has been really rewarding,” Emily said.
During the L-E’s visit, Kenny said they had sold out of their cinnamon rolls every day except for one and had sold over five dozen that day.
Kenny recalled selling their first breakfast sandwich the day after they opened and how the cars started “rolling in” and wanting more sandwiches after that first customer posted on Facebook about how good the sandwich was.
The couple said the ice cream they serve comes from Sarasota and the coffee comes from Americus, Georgia.
Emily said the coffee, Cafe Campesino, is organic, small farmer and fair trade.
A majority of their business comes from local people, Kenny said. They are thankful to start the shop when during the winter, when the town isn’t filled with tourists, so they could meet the locals, he said.
“It really has been a true blessing to learn that a town like this does still exist in America,” he said.
“It’s a true community,” Emily added.
When asked what they hope customers take away from their visit to the shop, Emily said, “Hopefully, they can walk away and remember, ‘Hey, those people cared.’”
