Strawberry Matcha Latte Denver: The Matcha Mirage at Vivid Minds Cafe South Broadway
The Matcha Mirage is the three-layer iced strawberry matcha latte at Vivid Minds Cafe and the most photographed drink on our menu. Ceremonial grade matcha, raw honey, milk, your choice of strawberry, blueberry, or mango purée, coconut cream foam, Lion’s Mane, and Cordyceps. $8. The three layers, fruit purée at the bottom, green ceremonial matcha in the middle, and white coconut cream foam on top, are distinct before you stir and integrated after. Both versions of this drink are worth photographing and worth drinking.
The strawberry purée option is the most popular because the pink and green contrast with the white foam creates the visual that has appeared on more Denver café social accounts than any other single Vivid Minds drink. The blueberry purée option creates a deeper blue-purple at the base with the green matcha above it. The mango option creates a warm golden-amber base with a tropical flavor profile that changes the entire character of the drink. Three purée options, three different drinks, one ordering decision. The mirage in the name is the way the layers look before they combine, something that is not quite what it appears to be until you experience it directly.
The Functional Mushroom Story in the Matcha Mirage
The Matcha Mirage contains both Lion’s Mane and Cordyceps, the cognitive clarity mushroom and the sustained energy mushroom in the same drink. Combined with the L-theanine in the ceremonial grade matcha, the Matcha Mirage is the most functionally dense drink on the matcha menu. The flavor is the strawberry and coconut cream story. The function is the matcha, Lion’s Mane, and Cordyceps working simultaneously. You will taste the first. You will feel the second.
Order It in the Matcha Flight
The Matcha Mirage is one of the four suggested drinks in Denver’s only matcha flight. $14 for any four ceremonial matcha lattes. Start with the Classic to establish the baseline. Order the Matcha Mirage with strawberry purée as your second. The contrast between the pure matcha of the Classic and the fruit-forward complexity of the Mirage is the most educational comparison in the flight.
The Matcha Mirage is $8 and available every day at Vivid Minds Cafe, 1545 S Broadway Denver CO 80210. Open daily 7:30am to 6pm.
