Photo by Staff photographer Juli Leonard

David Fowle, 48, will be a familiar face to many longtime downtown Raleigh office workers who used to frequent his coffee shop at the Sheraton. All told, Fowle sold coffee in downtown Raleigh for nine years from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.

After several years away, Fowle has opened the Wilmoore Cafe at 223 S. Wilmington St., next door to the Busy Bee Cafe. They opened six weeks ago. So I checked in with Fowle to learn about his life in the coffee business and return to downtown.

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