Press Coffee Bar applies for wine-tasting license for its Belmont shop

A Belmont coffee shop that opened four months ago on Watervliet Avenue applied last week for a license to offer wine samples to customers and to sell wine for carryout.

>>Dayton’s Wayne Avenue is turning into a coffee trail

Press Coffee Bar, which opened Feb. 19 at 732 Watervliet Ave. near South Smithville Road, submitted its application to the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Liquor Control on June 12. The application is pending.

>>Dayton coffee shop named 'Best in Ohio' by Food & Wine magazine (March 2018)

Credit: Allegra Czerwinski

Janelle Barker, co-founder and co-owner of Press Coffee Bar with her husband, Brett, said this week that she did not want to discuss details of her plans for the licenses until the applications are approved by the state.

>> Daytonians of the Week: Brett and Janelle Barker (September 2016)

The Barkers opened their flagship Press Coffee shop in early 2011 at 257 Wayne Ave. in Dayton’s Oregon District.

>> Press Coffee's second location is officially open in Belmont

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Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.