"I couldn't have asked for a better location," Amanda Torres told The Tribune on the morning Tres Hermanos Coffee opened. "Being in downtown Templeton is a dream for us, and I love being right across from the deli and the gas station and just iconic little Templeton."
That was July 22. This Friday afternoon, October 30, the Templeton Community Services District holds Trick or Treat on Main Street. This is the first one since Tres Hermanos moved off its trailer and into a storefront. The same South Main Street still holds the site where Templeton Feed & Grain stood for most of a century. Two businesses had been operating from somewhere else while working to get onto Main Street. One finished that trip this summer. The other is still on it.
Friday's details
The district's announcement, posted October 13, covers the basics:
- When: Friday, October 30, 3:30 to 6 p.m.
- Where: Templeton's Main Street, where businesses and organizations will hand out "tricks, treats, and more"
- Extra: Templeton Recreation is running a small, family-friendly haunted house
Running the event is the Templeton Community Services District, which turns 50 this year. A banner across its website reads "Celebrating Templeton Community Services District's 50th Anniversary 1976-2026." The district's events page has more information, and it's the place to check if plans change before Friday.
The newest storefront spent six years on wheels
Joe and Amanda Torres moved to San Luis Obispo County from Ventura 13 years ago. In 2020 they turned their love of coffee into a coffee trailer, according to The Tribune's opening-day story. For six years the trailer sat outside The Nest restaurant in Atascadero. Eventually, the paper wrote, "the coffee trailer became too big for its wheels," and the couple started looking for a permanent spot.
They landed at 315 S. Main St. in downtown Templeton. The shop has rustic chairs, paintings of the countryside, and an outdoor patio. "Tres Hermanos" means "Three Brothers" in Spanish, and the name honors the Torreses' three sons, Hank, Eli and Ezra.
Here's what The Tribune reported on the menu:
| Drink | What's in it |
|---|---|
| French press | Traditional, starting at $3 |
| Vaquero Vanilla latte | Brown butter and vanilla |
| The Tres Hermanos | Condensed milk and the shop's signature spices |
| Cactus Water | Prickly pear matcha lemonade |
Cappuccinos, cortados, lattes and americanos are on the regular list too. For parents, a $3 French press is a cheap way to get through a 3:30 start with a group of costumed kids. The Tribune story doesn't say whether the shop is handing out treats Friday, so ask at the counter.
Amanda Torres described the goal this way: "We wanted to create a space where everyone knows you and knows your order and it just feels very community-oriented."
Tres Hermanos isn't the only 2026 arrival. Renegades Training Center, a martial arts and fitness gym, opened on Main Street on March 29, KSBY reported.
The oldest storefront has been serving Templeton from Paso Robles
The Jermin family has owned and run Templeton Feed & Grain since 1946. The store and granary were destroyed in a fire on July 4, 2025. The grain towers were gutted and the century-old storefront was badly damaged. Excavators took down the last of the burned building in early February 2026, The Tribune reported.
The store never closed. It has been operating at 1650 Ramada Drive in Paso Robles while planning goes on. Its feed recipes are now mixed and manufactured by Penny Newman Grain in Hanford. Tres Hermanos spent six years serving Templeton customers from a trailer in Atascadero. For more than a year, Feed & Grain has been serving them from a warehouse in Paso Robles. Both have been working toward the same street.
In July, KSBY spoke with Rick Jermin, the company's vice president. "We've been focused on sourcing our product over in Penny-Newman," he said. "They're manufacturing all of our feed for us now, and my main focus is getting back onto Main Street and getting rebuilt back to our original store."
What it takes to bring a feed store home
The plan is to make the new building look familiar. In March, Jermin told The Tribune that it will be built of steel on the same footprint as the old structure, with a front meant to recall the original. "As far as the customers are going to be concerned, it's going to look very similar," he said.
The silos won't come back. The 105-foot towers are what most people pictured when they thought of Templeton from Highway 101, and they won't be rebuilt. Jermin said the construction costs would be "astronomical," and the new store won't make its own feed. So the storefront will look familiar, but the skyline above it will be lower.
Much of what has happened in the meantime is work nobody can see from the sidewalk. By May, The Tribune reported, the Stronger Together Committee's events and donations had raised $455,000 toward recovery and rebuilding. By then the project had moved into what the family called a slower planning and engineering phase. The decisions covered customer access and parking, receiving areas, the building layout, grading, and the foundation.
"I never realized how much was involved," Jermin told the paper. "Load calculations, piers, that's just the foundation."
Here's the order of steps he described:
- Send the building plans to a steel company
- Finish more engineering
- Get through county review and permit approval
- Build, which the contractor thinks "could go up pretty fast once we get to that point"
One of those fundraisers was the Grain Revival in September 2025, which had a dunk tank set up in town. The Tribune also reported that longtime customers keep stopping in to ask how the rebuild is going and to offer encouragement.
Between Friday and December
In March, the family told The Tribune it hoped to reopen on Main Street this December, and the paper described the timeline as fluid while the project moved through the county's building and permitting processes. In the most recent public update, from July, getting back onto Main Street was still Jermin's "main focus." December is still a hope, not a set date. The Templeton Feed & Grain Facebook page is where the family has posted its renderings and updates, and it's the best place to watch for news.
Before then, there's another evening downtown. The Templeton Performing Arts Center presents Scriptless in Seattle, an improv show built on audience suggestions, on Saturday, November 21, according to Paso Robles Daily News.
On Friday, the trick-or-treating route goes past both businesses. One has a counter and a $3 French press. The other is the site where the family plans a steel building with a familiar front and no silos. The haunted house is open from 3:30 to 6 p.m.
If you're a Templeton homeowner wondering how a rebuilt Feed & Grain and newer storefronts like Tres Hermanos might change the walk you take downtown, I'm glad to talk it through. I'm happy to go over how Main Street fits into your plans, whenever those plans start to take shape. Barbara Letty Carstensen is here when you're ready. Schedule a Meeting.
