From their website:  “The Hof” as locals know it wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for a dedicated stream of staff and clientele who believe that a coffee house is more than just a place to buy coffee. It’s also a place to meet people, create community, and think. Just as Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Roosevelt, and Kierkegaard may have had some of their most enlightening conversations at their favorite coffee houses, so we hope our customers will do the same at ours.

​The Clark Family, who also own and operate Goose Hollow Inn next door, opened The Hof in 2001 after the house had been used for years as a hang-out, shop, walk-in cooler, rental apartment, and staff break room, among other things.  It’s name, Fehrenbacher Hof, comes from Sigrid Fehrenbacher, wife of former Mayor Bud Clark who opened Goose Hollow in 1967. The coffee house is decorated with antique toasters, egg beaters, violins, and various other items from her collections as both a violinist and antique dealer.”   The subheading in the website reads “coffee house and study rooms.”

We LOVE institutions like this where proprietors make it part of their mission to provide their community a place to gather.  As new shops open in fancier, more expensive locations with higher prices, and the number of affordable housing opportunities diminishes, the value of gathering spots like the “Hof” skyrockets.

Discussion topics today included a survey of each bicyclist’s favorite Utah destinations and roadways since G and wife D will be visiting next Sept , and queries on what C is planning to do with the 5 acres he bought in the 80s about 15 miles south of Moab.

1225 SW 19th                                               fahrenbacherhof.com