It starts with a greeting.
Kumusta is the first word of Filipino hospitality — the question asked before anything is served, in every household, at every salu-salo.
Kmusta was born to bring that welcome to Ottawa's events: a Filipino-founded cart in a city with 14,000+ kababayan and no coffee cart that tasted like home.
Every event we serve turns a standard coffee break into a moment of connection. Guests discover ube and arnibal from the people whose heritage they are. Filipino guests taste home. Hosts get the vendor everyone photographs and remembers.
We want Kmusta to be the National Capital Region's answer to "how do we make this event memorable?" — and proof that diaspora culture isn't a niche. It's a welcome.
Fifteen years of cups and lessons
My coffee journey began as an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia — first as a contract "sweet maker," then, in 2010, as a barista at Costa Coffee with no knowledge, no experience, and no idea where it would lead. I believe God was quietly preparing me for something greater, shaping a dream through every cup I made.
Years of challenges and sacrifices later, that dream is becoming real — step by step, one greeting and one cup at a time, here in Ottawa.
— Emil Yanga
Bring the welcome to your event.
Your date, your headcount, your number — in about a minute.