Mozart's Coffee Roasters

Mozart's opened on the shore of Lake Austin in 1993 and calls itself the first coffee shop in Austin to roast in-house, on the same roaster you can still watch working on the premises today. Ken and Stacey Leonard have owned it for more than 30 years, and coffee director Jack Ranstrom now oversees the roasting. The original blends were built in the Northern European tradition, smooth and bold and sitting at the medium-to-dark end, and they are still the backbone: Mozart's Blend, El Gato Negro, Vecchi Amici and Espresso D'Oro, which the roasters developed in 1999. A newer line of lighter-roasted single origins from Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia and Costa Rica sits alongside them, plus the Lake Austin Blend and a set of flavored coffees tied to the bakery, like Texas Heritage Campfire Pecan made with San Saba pecans. The cafe pairs the coffee with scratch-made European-style pastries and live music on the outdoor stage, and every winter the property turns into the Festival of Lights.