New coffee shop to open in Ooltewah’s Cambridge Square in January

Staff photo / The clock tower at Cambridge Square development faces Lee Highway, just west of The Honors Course in Ooltewah. Morning Brew Coffee is scheduled to open a new coffee shop at the development in January.

By Dave Flessner October 31, 2023 4 min read

Denis Liskevich said he developed a taste for gourmet coffee while in college in Portland, Oregon.

So when the 24-year-old entrepreneur moved home to Ooltewah, he started his own coffee venture, catering weddings and other special events with his artisan coffee concept known as Morning Brew Coffee.

Liskevich has developed a following from events he has catered at Howe Farms in Georgetown and at pop-up events at Collegedale Commons and is now preparing to open his first brick-and-mortar storefront in Cambridge Square. The 1,000-square-foot coffee shop is scheduled to open in January, joining about 40 other retail tenants in the Ooltewah complex. The new shop will feature a variety of gourmet coffee options and pastries.

“People don’t always understand what a good cup of coffee tastes like, so that is what we set out to do,” Liskevich said in a telephone interview. “We want to change people’s perspective and what it means to drink coffee. It doesn’t have to have a bitter taste or be something that you drink just to get your day doing.”