Coffee Roasters in Manitoba

Winnipeg anchors Manitoba's specialty coffee scene with 14 active independent roasters — a deeper bench than the city's profile usually suggests. Thom Bargen Coffee Roasters has built one of the better-known small-batch Manitoba operations, joined by Black Pearl Coffee, Bricolage Coffee Roasters, Colosimo Coffee Roasters (founded 1997), De Luca's Coffee (founded 1969 — one of Manitoba's longest-running operators), Empty Cup Collective, Harrisons Coffee Co., Jacked Up Jill Coffee, Lelas Coffee Roasters, Más Coffee Co., Mountain Bean Coffee Co., Mugging Whales Specialty Coffee Roasters, Railway Roasters, and Thousand Hills Coffee Canada. The Winnipeg specialty scene is unusually mature — a customer base that's been engaged with specialty coffee for two decades, supported by University of Manitoba, the provincial government, and a downtown food-and-arts identity.

Southeastern Manitoba runs a distinct Mennonite-heritage specialty corridor. Steinbach has Hitch + Boler Coffee Roasters & Cafe and Stone City Coffee Roasters — two roasters in a small-city community whose food scene reflects the Mennonite tradition of craft and care. Winkler's Other Brother Coffee Roasters (founded 2011) extends the corridor west. Niverville's Negash Coffee adds an Ethiopian-heritage operation just south of Winnipeg. The southeastern coffee scene tends toward cafe-roastery hybrids serving year-round local communities rather than wholesale-first operations.

Beyond Winnipeg and the southeast, Manitoba's coffee scene reaches across the southern half of the province. Brandon's Forbidden Flavours Roastery anchors the western Manitoba reach. Dauphin's Garage 41 Coffee Co. serves the Parkland region. Gimli's Flatland Coffee Roasters covers the Interlake. Headingley's Sunstone Coffee Roastery, Elie's Scott Creek Coffee, Elma's Trail's End Coffee, and Minnedosa's Grey Ridge Coffee fill out the rural-and-small-town map. The 25 active independent Manitoba roasters represent a province whose coffee scene runs from urban Winnipeg through the southeastern Mennonite communities and into the Westman, Interlake, and Parkland regions.