BaCoff Offers Coffee, Baked Goods in Buffalo Grove

A new café in Buffalo Grove can satisfy your sweet tooth and give you a caffeine fix. 

BaCoff, named to reflect that it’s part bakery and part coffee shop, opened May 31 in the Buffalo Grove Town Center.

Its menu includes fresh baked bread and pastries, assorted hot and cold coffees, bubble tea and frozen yogurt. Also offered are two sandwiches — one with ham, eggs and bacon, and the other with beef and vegetables.

“We bake every day the bread and cakes and some of the sandwich buns,” said owner Sugho Ji, who begins baking as early at 4:30 a.m. His recipes include both American and Korean style baked goods. Treats such as macarons and tiramisu are labeled in both languages inside a glass case. 

“We have a lot of Korean customers,” Ji explained.

Ji, who lives in Buffalo Grove, emigrated 16 years ago from Korea, where he worked in a bakery. Upon arriving in the United States, he said he worked a range of jobs, from driving a semi-truck to owning a Chicago clothing store, before returning to his original career.

“I’ve always had interest in the food business,” he said. “I didn’t have a chance to do it” until now, he said, noting that it took years of working and saving money to open his first restaurant.

BaCoff is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

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