Specialty local coffee and tea set the foundation, but meaningful conversation and deeper connection are what we're really serving.
The idea of Sakoon started at a family dinner table, the way most good things between us always have. The two of us have cultivated a friendship over two decades, raising our four kids together in the same community of friends, sometimes gathering at dinner parties, high teas, Mother's Day celebrations, civic engagement activities, and volunteering in our communities. Now that our kids are grown and out in the world, we find ourselves asking what comes next, and the answer is each other, again. This time, we're giving space for people to cultivate connections in the way we cultivated our own.
We're two women, both first-generation Americans who've called Richmond home for most of our lives, building this endeavor together in the place that raised us. Shagufta always wanted a coffee shop of her own; chai has been Mona's love language for as long as she can remember. Somewhere between the two of us, Sakoon was born.
This community is our home. We wanted to build a place to gather over a warm cup of local specialty coffee roasted just down the street, specialty teas, and pastries baked by neighborhood bakeries we all know by name.