ET Rivera created Tres Leches Café in the fall of 2014 as a local (and hopefully soon, national) alternative to power houses Starbucks and Dutch Brothers– with an obvious cultural twist, Tres Leches Café boasts an extensive specialty latte menu. 3LC prides itself on being the first Mexican Gourmet Coffee Shop in Arizona, where ET shares his pride in his cultural upbringing and his family’s Mexican heritage through each of his one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted recipes. Our owner started off on the porch of his house with a coffee cart and was there for 2 months. 

He was soon able to move the cart into a friend’s restaurant (Scott’s Generation) and it was there the Phoenix New Times wrote an article branding the cafe as a “Mexican Starbucks of your dreams.” After a year in the restaurant, he ventured out onto his very own location, which we lovingly refer to as “The Casita,” and was here for two years. We’ve now been in our current spacious location since the Fall of 2018.