Happy Birthday to us!

Our little cafe hit double digits this month. Ten years! To be exact, we started pouring coffee and serving up pie June 13, 2005.

But we didn’t come here just to talk about us. Well mostly about us, but by us we mean everyone up and down our stretch of southeast Stark.

What a pleasure and an honor it’s been to grow up with Montavilla.

The Bipartisan story starts decades before the doors opened. Our intrepid Peter Emerson had been building the cafe in his head for 20-years before he opened the Oregonian classifieds (remember classifieds?) one day to finally to hunt for a space.