Just Open: Botero Espresso Bar, Brisbane CBD

Not too many coffee shops in Brisbane's CBD cure salmon and churn butter in-house.

Housed in a historic building in Adelaide Street, Botero Espresso Bar opened quietly on Monday and the team is looking to shake up the city's drinking and dining scene.

"Our aim is to change the skin on regular cafe fare," manager Bonnie Duyker says.

"We make everything we can in-house; smoking our own salmon, pastrami and pancetta, and making pickles and jams, and even our own butter and peanut butter."

The Botero team includes Duyker's French barista husband, Quentin Le Naour, and their friend, chef Tom Monk. It's the second retail outlet for the owners, coffee roasters Danny and Jill Young, who also sell their Botero coffee wholesale.

Coffee on pour is a choice of five blends from Botero's roastery in Maclean, New South Wales, plus rotating single origins prepared in a variety of methods; from Japanese pour-overs to cold drip.

Breakfasts include buttermilk waffles with coconut and lime butter, vanilla roasted stone fruits, macadamia nuts and green tea; and fennel cured Tasmanian salmon with pickled beets, crumbed egg, rye roast and sumac sour cream.

Lunches include pulled pork burger with kimchi, fennel and apple slaw, tonkatsu sauce, crackling and togarashi spice; vegan pea and potato fritters with coconut tomato chutney, cauliflower, sprouted lentils and labna; and crisp skinned market fish with yellow curry sauce, pineapple sambal, quinoa and coconut.

Dinner and grazing-style menus are offered on Thursdays and Fridays, along with two beers on tap and a range of wine, spirits and cocktails.

A training facility for home baristas will be up and running in a couple of months.

Open Mon-Wed 6.30am-4pm; Thu-Fri 6.30am-late (licensed until midnight).

258 Adelaide Street, Brisbane, 07 3805 5387, botero.com.au