Flower Basket & Espresso Depot

the espresso here is the reason people keep coming back to 445 e 11th st, and it's not a complicated story. ely, nevada sits in white pine county at around 6,400 feet elevation, a high desert town where your options for a genuinely good cup are limited, which makes flower basket & espresso depot land differently than it might somewhere else. the regulars are fiercely loyal, and that loyalty isn't built on novelty. it's built on consistency, on a place doing one thing well and not drifting from it. you don't need to overthink your order. pull something espresso-based, whatever form appeals to you, and let it do its job. if you're passing through on us-93, this is the stop worth timing your drive around.