Best Independent Coffee Roasters in Winnipeg, Manitoba (2026)
Winnipeg's roasters run from an Italian market that has roasted on Portage Avenue since 1969 to micro-roasteries started in 2022, with a roasting atelier at The Forks, a Kennedy Street roastery feeding four cafés, and a St. Boniface roaster named for a railway family. Stated founding years on the sites run from 1969 to 2022.
We've mapped the active independent coffee roasters listed under Winnipeg 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 café whose shop lists another roaster's coffee, and a Henderson Highway coffee house. The orbit section covers roasters within about 35 kilometres that Roast Local lists under Headingley or Niverville.
Downtown, West Broadway, and The Forks
Thom Bargen Coffee Roasters
Thom Bargen roasts four days a week at 250 Kennedy Street, which its site calls its official headquarters, and runs four Winnipeg cafés: 64 Sherbrook Street in West Broadway, where the business started, Kennedy Street downtown, 743 Corydon Avenue in Corydon Village, and 2090 Corydon Avenue in Tuxedo. The Sherbrook café opened in 2012 (per Sprudge). Named house coffees are Always Sunny, for espresso or filter, and Always Sleepy, a decaf. The company runs its own bakery, bakes bagels at the Tuxedo café, and its About page describes visits to producers in Ethiopia and Kenya. Thom Bargen sells at the cafés, online, by subscription, wholesale, and through catering and latte art classes.
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Harrisons Coffee Co.
Harrisons Coffee runs three units at The Forks and on Waterfront Drive, per its site: a coffee house in the Johnston Terminal at 151 to 25 Forks Market Road, a second at 106 to 270 Waterfront Drive, and a separate Roasting Atelier at 161 to 25 Forks Market Road. Its staple coffees are named Tiny Dancer and 18 Espresso. Harrisons sells at both coffee houses, online with subscriptions, and through a partnership programme that includes a branded drink training guide for wholesale accounts.
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St. Boniface and the East Side
Colosimo Coffee Roasters
Colosimo Coffee Roasters roasts in small batches in Winnipeg, curates each roast in house, and stamps the roast date on every bag, per its About page. It lists seven Winnipeg cafés: 140 Provencher Boulevard, 145 Pacific Avenue, 877 Henderson Highway, 360 Portage Avenue, 1120 Grant Avenue, 727 McDermot Avenue, and 30 Sifton Road, which the site marks as re-opening in September 2026. Named coffees include Mia Angela Espresso (dark), Ethiopian Sunrise (medium), Costa Rica Tarrazu (light), and Colombian Huila (medium). Colosimo ships bean orders across Canada, delivers free within Winnipeg above a threshold, and offers wholesale, office coffee, catering, and fundraising.
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Railway Roasters
Railway Roasters gives its address as 305 to 690 St. Joseph Street in St. Boniface, per its contact page, and was created to honour a family's lifetime commitment to the railway, per its About page. It has roasted Brazilian coffee sourced through Orange Brown Imports and Exports since the winter of 2022; named products include Diesel (dark roast), Caboose, Locomotive, Monorail, and Misfit (half caff), plus a cold brew. It sells online and to corporate accounts.
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Empty Cup Collective
Empty Cup Collective was founded in 2020 in Winnipeg, per its About page, starting with a small roaster in a garage. Its first location at 535 Panet Road is a café and roastery; the site lists further cafés at 115 Sage Creek Boulevard and at River Landing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, under two concepts, Empty Cup Community and Empty Cup Lite. The company makes nitro cold brew and sells its coffee online.
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North End and Portage Avenue
Black Pearl Coffee
Black Pearl Coffee was established in Winnipeg in 2000, per its site, and roasts at 460 Dufferin Avenue, where a retail store fronting the roastery offers more than 20 coffees, loose tea, and cocoa. The site states it roasts certified Fair Trade and certified organic coffees and specialises in single origins; named house coffees include The Black Pearl (dark) and an Ethiopian Yirgacheffe (light). Black Pearl sells wholesale to restaurants, cafés, and grocers, names Winnipeg stockists including Food Fare, Organic Planet, and Red River Co-op, takes phone orders, and has run a coffee fundraising programme for schools and teams since 2001. The site lists no online shop.
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De Luca's Coffee
De Luca's has been Winnipeg's Italian market since 1969, per its site, at 950 Portage Avenue, and describes itself as a market, café, grocery, deli, bakery, coffee roaster, and catering destination. Its coffee beans are roasted in Winnipeg in espresso blends, medium and dark roasts, and decaf, sold whole bean or ground and in 1 kilogram bags for offices. De Luca's also sells and services espresso machines, including Rocket Espresso and Jura, with a coffee showroom at its second location, South Landing, in Oak Bluff.
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Micro-roasteries without a storefront
Bricolage Coffee Roasters
Bricolage Coffee Roasters began producing whole bean coffee in 2022, per its contact page, as a micro-roastery roasting small batches of specialty coffee in Winnipeg. Its FAQ states it pays above Fair Trade prices for its green coffee. Bricolage sells online with free delivery inside city limits and flat-rate Canada Post shipping within Manitoba; the site gives no street address.
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Lelas Coffee Roasters
Lelas Coffee Roasters is a specialty roastery based in Winnipeg that sources and roasts coffee exclusively from Ethiopia, per its site, with hand-picked, fully traceable lots and a roast profile chosen per coffee. It sells online with free delivery in the Winnipeg area and asks customers outside the city to contact it for shipping; the site gives no street address.
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Mugging Whales Specialty Coffee Roasters
Mugging Whales is a micro-roastery based in Winnipeg whose idea began on a 2018 trip to Maui, per its About page. It roasts small batches in Winnipeg; named roasts include Humpback Blend (dark), a Guatemala (medium-dark), and a Mexico (medium). Mugging Whales ships free across Canada above a threshold, delivers in Winnipeg, offers a wholesale rate for fundraising, runs a two-hour coffee tasting experience, and gives reward points for recycled coffee bags. The site gives no street address.
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Jacked Up Jill Coffee
Jacked Up Jill Coffee was founded in 2017 in Headingley, per its Our Story page, and now lists Winnipeg, Manitoba as its base. It roasts specialty-grade arabica locally in small batches, including some organic and Rainforest Alliance lots. Jacked Up Jill sells online, by subscription, and wholesale, and at markets and shops its site names: St. Norbert Farmers' Market, Third + Bird Craft Market, Scattered Seeds Craft Market, Signatures, and Apple and Pine. Its site names Willow Place among the non-profits it supports.
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Thousand Hills Coffee Canada
Thousand Hills Coffee is based in Winnipeg and roasts Rwandan and Burundian coffee there, per its site; its named coffees are Sholi, a certified organic coffee sorted by a women's cooperative at origin, Café du Burundi, and Sholi Cooperative. CTV Winnipeg profiled the business in November 2022. Thousand Hills sells online, through a monthly subscription of four 450 gram bags, and at Winnipeg stockists it names, including Sobeys St. Anne's, Miller's Meats, and the Third + Bird airport store. It responds to inquiries within Canada only and gives no street address.
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The Winnipeg orbit: Headingley and Niverville
Sunstone Coffee Roastery (Headingley)
Sunstone Coffee Roastery states on its site that it was founded in 1994 in Winnipeg and opened a fully integrated roasting plant in 2002 capable of custom roasting up to 7,000 pounds of coffee a day, with private label roasting and a UTZ certification. The site gives a phone number and no address, and Roast Local lists Sunstone under Headingley.
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Negash Coffee (Niverville)
Negash Coffee is a roastery and shop at 2b to 40 Drovers Run in Niverville specialising in organic African coffee beans, per its About page. Its coffee is stocked at Manitoba retailers the site names, including Co-op Red River, Sobeys, Safeway, FoodFare, and Save-On-Foods stores in Winnipeg.
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What makes Winnipeg's roasting scene distinctive
The stated founding years span more than fifty years. De Luca's dates to 1969, Black Pearl to 2000, Thom Bargen's first café to 2012 (per Sprudge), Jacked Up Jill to 2017, Empty Cup to 2020, and Bricolage and Railway Roasters' current programme to 2022.
Two roasters run multi-café networks from one roastery. Colosimo lists seven Winnipeg cafés and Thom Bargen four, each roasting at one site. Empty Cup's cafés extend to Saskatoon.
Five roasters sell without a storefront. Bricolage, Lelas, Mugging Whales, Jacked Up Jill, and Thousand Hills give no street address on their sites and sell online, at markets, or through named grocers. Black Pearl, by contrast, sells at its roastery and by phone with no online shop.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many independent coffee roasters are in Winnipeg?
Roast Local lists 14 active independent coffee roasters under Winnipeg. This guide names the twelve whose own sites state that they roast: Thom Bargen, Harrisons, Colosimo, Railway Roasters, Empty Cup, Black Pearl, De Luca's, Bricolage, Lelas, Mugging Whales, Jacked Up Jill, and Thousand Hills. Sunstone in Headingley and Negash in Niverville are covered in the orbit section.
What is Winnipeg's oldest coffee roaster?
By stated founding year, De Luca's, which its site dates to 1969 as an Italian market at 950 Portage Avenue that roasts its coffee in Winnipeg. Black Pearl Coffee states it was established in 2000. In the orbit, Sunstone's site dates its founding to 1994.
Which Winnipeg coffee roasters ship across Canada?
Colosimo ships bean orders across Canada and Mugging Whales ships free across Canada above a threshold. Thousand Hills sells within Canada by subscription. Bricolage ships within Manitoba, Lelas asks customers outside Winnipeg to contact it, and Black Pearl takes phone orders with no online shop.
Where in Winnipeg are the roasters?
Thom Bargen roasts at 250 Kennedy Street downtown, Harrisons at its Roasting Atelier at The Forks, Black Pearl at 460 Dufferin Avenue in the North End, De Luca's at 950 Portage Avenue, Empty Cup at 535 Panet Road, and Railway Roasters gives 690 St. Joseph Street in St. Boniface. Colosimo's seven cafés run from Provencher Boulevard to Grant Avenue.
Last updated: September 2026