Best Independent Coffee Roasters in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas (2026)
Kansas City's roasters sit on both sides of the state line, and this guide covers both: Roast Local lists them under Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, and two of the roasteries that supply Missouri-side cafes are physically in Kansas. Stated roasting histories run from 1998 to 2024, the machines named on the sites are Diedrichs, and the addresses cluster in the Crossroads, Westport, Troost Avenue, the West Bottoms, and the Northland.
We've mapped the active independent coffee roasters listed under Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas as of September 2026. Every fact below comes from the roaster's own website, with at most one press source per roaster cited inline. Where a site does not state something (a founding year, a roasting machine, a street address), this guide does not state it either. Two listed businesses are left out because neither site states that it roasts: a Troost Avenue cafe and event center, and a Strawberry Hill cafe in Kansas City, Kansas. The orbit section covers roasters within about 30 kilometers that Roast Local lists under a neighboring town.
Westport and Midtown
Broadway Roasting Co.
Broadway Roasting began as the Broadway Cafe, which opened in the fall of 1992 at 4106 Broadway, per its About page; roasting started in 1998, and in 2007 it moved into a converted 1930s fire station at 4012 Washington Street. The roastery runs the original Diedrich IR12 beside a modified 1999 Diedrich IR40, roasting by hand with no computers (per Sprudge). Origins named on the site include Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Broadway sells at the cafe, online with shipping, and wholesale to coffeehouses, restaurants, and offices.
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Thou Mayest Coffee Roasters
Thou Mayest started in a garage in 2012, per its About page, which names Bo Nelson as co-founder. The name comes from John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Its cafes are River Quay at 412 Delaware Street and the Nelson-Atkins Museum at 4525 Oak Street, plus three Café Equinox locations in Shawnee, Overland Park, and Liberty; the River Quay and Nelson-Atkins cafes came with the acquisition of Quay Coffee in April 2019 (per Startland News). Named blends include Wild Child, Smooth Operator, Alter Ego, Boldly Go, and Super Ego, with single origins from Kenya, Zambia, and Peru. Thou Mayest opens its production floor for a cupping once a month and sells online, by subscription, and wholesale.
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Crossroads
Rochester Brewing and Roasting Company
Rochester Brewing and Roasting is a brewery and coffee roastery under one roof at 2129 Washington Street, with a second location at 100 South Main Street in Parkville. The idea dates to 2017, per its story page, which names its three founders by first name; the coffee side soft-opened in 2019 (per Daily Coffee News). Coffee is roasted on a 5 kilogram Diedrich, and the name comes from a Rochester Brewery that operated in Kansas City in the 1800s. Rochester sells coffee and beer in its taprooms and coffee online.
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Café Corazón
Café Corazón was founded by Miel Castagna-Herrera, Curtis Herrera, and Dulcinea Herrera, per its About page, and opened its first location in September 2019 at Westport and State Line (per Kansas City Magazine). It runs three cafes in Kansas City, Missouri, at 1721 Westport Road, 5911 Main Street in Brookside, and 110 Southwest Boulevard in the Crossroads, while its roasting headquarters is at 812 Osage Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. The coffee is sourced from Latin America, and the cafes also serve yerba mate in its traditional form. Café Corazón sells wholesale coffee and yerba mate, online, and through catering and an espresso cart.
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Cielo Coffee Roasters
Cielo Coffee Roasters was established in February 2024, per its site, as a boutique roaster sourcing traceable green coffee from single producers, families, and co-ops. It roasts on a Probat P-12 in a shared production space and its primary client is Penrose, a walk-up coffee bar at 1927 McGee Street in the East Crossroads (per Daily Coffee News). Cielo sells online; the site gives no street address.
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West Bottoms and the East Bottoms
Blip Coffee Roasters
Blip Coffee Roasters was established in 2014 as a wholesale roasting company, per its story page, and is at 1301 Woodswether Road in the West Bottoms, in a 19,000 square foot building shared with Anchor Moto, a motorcycle shop. A building fire forced a closure in 2016 and the business reopened at the Woodswether location in 2020 (per KCUR). Blip runs a cafe, sells house-roasted coffee online and by subscription, and sells wholesale.
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Parisi Artisan Coffee
Parisi Artisan Coffee opened its roasting facility in 2006, per its site, at 1875 North Topping Avenue, which it describes as one of the largest green coffee storage and roasting facilities in the Midwest. Its parent company is Paris Brothers, Inc., founded in 1983 (per Startland News). Parisi runs cafes at Union Station, Kansas City International Airport, the Argosy Casino in Riverside, and Overland Park, and sells online, by subscription, wholesale, and through contract roasting. Named limited releases include a Kenya AA Embu and a Costa Rica Cerro San Luis micromill.
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Troost Avenue
Oddly Correct Coffee Roasters
Oddly Correct began as a wholesale roasting business, per its wholesale page, and opened its first cafe on Main Street by January 2013 (per Sprudge). The cafe is now at 4141 Troost Avenue. The wholesale range runs from microlots to coffees for drip, cold brew, and espresso, with free shipping on wholesale orders of 25 pounds or more, and the site sells coffee for home brewing online.
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The Northland
Renegade Coffee
Renegade Coffee is at 8708 North Oak Trafficway and roasts its own beans, sources loose-leaf tea, and makes small-batch syrups, per its site, which also notes a curated shelf of children's and adult literature. The cafe keeps evening hours, and The Pitch described its downstairs space in a January 2025 review.
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Headrush Roasters Coffee and Tea
Headrush Roasters was established in 2012, per its site, as a small-batch air roaster serving Kansas City and Gladstone. Single origins in its shop include Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Congo Lake Kivu, and Costa Rica, and the catalog carries a large tea and matcha range. It sells at its cafes, online, and through wholesale inquiry; the site gives no street address.
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Online and wholesale
Attack Coffee
Attack Coffee describes itself as a Kansas City roastery whose roasting began in a hot air corn popper, per its About page. Named dark roast blends are Combat Cowboy and First Go, with single origins from Ethiopia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. It sells online with subscriptions and wholesale, and ships worldwide; the site gives no street address.
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Kansas City, Kansas
Sway Coffee Roasters
Sway Coffee Roasters roasts at 2700 West 43rd Avenue in the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, and comes from the same people as McLain's Bakery and Markets, per its story page. Roasting began in 2019 and the flagship roasting space and cafe opened in September 2022. Its house brew comes from a non-profit cooperative in San Lucas, Guatemala, and the cafe has a sectioned-off roasting station visible to customers (per The Pitch). Sway sells at the cafe, online with nationwide delivery, wholesale, and at McLain's locations in Waldo, Overland Park, Shawnee, and Lawrence.
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The Kansas City orbit: Parkville, North Kansas City, Lenexa, Overland Park
Parkville Coffee
Parkville Coffee is at 103 Main Street in downtown Parkville and roasts on two side-by-side Diedrich IR-12 drum roasters, one built in 1985, per its About page, with custom and wholesale roasts shipped across the country.
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Northlandia Coffee Roasting Co.
Northlandia Coffee imports coffee from origin farms with as few middlemen as possible, per its site, and sells locally roasted coffee online with free shipping above a threshold. The site gives no street address.
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Maps Coffee Roasters
Maps Coffee Roasters is at 13440 Santa Fe Trail Drive in Lenexa, sources and roasts its own beans, and also makes chocolate, per its About page. It sells at the shop and online by subscription.
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Revocup
Revocup began in 2008, per its About page, roasts single-origin coffee and espresso in house, and names five locations: Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, downtown Kansas City, and St. Louis. The site gives no street addresses.
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What makes Kansas City's roasting scene distinctive
The state line runs through the supply chain. Café Corazón's three cafes are in Missouri and its roastery is at 812 Osage Avenue in Kansas; Sway roasts in Rosedale, Kansas, and sells through McLain's in Waldo, Missouri. Thou Mayest and Parisi each run cafes on both sides.
Diedrich is the machine the sites name. Broadway Roasting runs an IR12 and a 1999 IR40, Rochester a 5 kilogram Diedrich, and Parkville Coffee two IR-12s, one from 1985. Cielo's Probat P-12 is the exception, per Daily Coffee News.
Three roasteries share a roof with something else. Blip shares a West Bottoms building with a motorcycle shop, Rochester roasts inside a brewery, and Parisi's facility doubles as green coffee storage for its parent company.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many independent coffee roasters are in Kansas City?
Roast Local lists 12 active independent coffee roasters under Kansas City, Missouri, and lists Kansas City, Kansas separately. This guide names the Missouri-side roasters and the one Kansas-side roaster, Sway, whose own sites state that they roast: Broadway Roasting, Thou Mayest, Rochester, Café Corazón, Cielo, Blip, Parisi, Oddly Correct, Renegade, Headrush, Attack, and Sway.
What is Kansas City's oldest coffee roaster?
By stated roasting history, Broadway Roasting, whose cafe opened in the fall of 1992 and whose roasting began in 1998, per its About page. Parisi's roasting facility opened in 2006 and Revocup, in the orbit, began in 2008.
Which Kansas City coffee roasters ship?
Attack ships worldwide, Sway delivers nationwide, and Parkville Coffee ships custom and wholesale roasts across the country. Broadway, Thou Mayest, Blip, Parisi, Oddly Correct, Cielo, and Northlandia all run online shops; Thou Mayest, Blip, Parisi, and Attack offer subscriptions.
Which Kansas City roasters are in Kansas?
Sway Coffee Roasters roasts at 2700 West 43rd Avenue in Rosedale, Kansas City, Kansas. Café Corazón's roasting headquarters is at 812 Osage Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, though Roast Local lists it under its Missouri cafes. In the orbit, Maps is in Lenexa and Revocup in Overland Park.
Last updated: September 2026