As a total aside, I’ve never seen a coffee shop as busy as I did see City Market Coffeehouse on Saturday morning. People jammed in everywhere, the 3 baristas were brewing as if their lives depended on it.
But the real news is Ethos. The Ethos Coffee Cars of the Ethos Coffee Company are quite a new twist. We’ve had delivery pizza, Chinese, sandwiches, and burritos. But now, you can call up the espresso cars (888-697-2392), they’ll drive to you, and brew you a fresh latte right out the back of their Scion xB. There is a minimum order, just like anywhere else, so grab your friends, but you never again have to whine about there not being a shop nearby! No word yet on how good it tastes.
I stumbled across Ethos at the Celebration at the Station. I could easily see them doing other large events, parking next to the kettle corn trailer and the funnel cake trailer. Its like the ice cream truck… for adults.
Eddie Delahunt’s Cafe & is a fantastic coffee shop (good coffee, great service & atmosphere), and unlike many other shops in town, is expanding!
Eddie is moving 1 block east from his 43rd & State Line location to 43rd & Bell. The website claims there isn’t an ETA for the move yet, but sources say the soft target for the move is June 9th. If you haven’t gotten tasty coffee from a friendly Irishman before, I suggest stopping by the old shop soon and then again after the move. You won’t regret it. Why is it called ‘Cafe &….’? Its because Eddie is not just the proprietor of a coffee shop, he is also a notable local musician. The cafe doubles as a music venue, a bar, and friendly neighborhood meeting point for all.
Now you may say, Scott, just one friendly Irishman is not enough for me with my morning coffee. You’re in luck. For the exact same price, you get as many friendly Irish people as can fit around the back bar. In this picture, you see just one of the 6 I met this morning. Eddie’s got the strongest accent, but it doesn’t stop everybody else from picking up a little bit of it.
When I got to work, I did a little jig.
The non-caffeinated Germans here didn’t understand at all.
JP’s Winebar and Coffeehouse is a great little joint, for food, wine, & coffee. Very comfy atmosphere, good coffee, good service, etc, etc. It was about to break into my top 10 coffee shops.
But then they went and shortened their hours. They don’t open till 8AM now, a near-cardinal sin for a coffee shop. They used to open at 6AM, one of the earliest in the area. I suppose we can excuse it a bit in this case since they’re also a fantastic lunch, dinner, and late evening hang-out too.
What would this city do for coffee without God? A Cup Above is yet another installment of the church-group-fronted coffee shop series. I suppose that its not entirely a bad thing, as coffee shops have a tendancy to be barely-or-un-profitable. They need a 501c3 status to stay afloat.
Happy returns! SoHo Bakery and Cafe is back open, and better than ever. I can reverse my removal of them from the top ten list.
Short, short version: new owners, new menu, same great coffee. Also, the decor is much better too. Now it looks like it belongs in downtown rather than Liberty :)
The forecast was accurate. Magazines and Coffee is throwing in the tamper. They should have raised the alarm more than three weeks ago if they really wanted us to help.
This sign on their counter says they will be closing on Friday the 2nd.
Maybe I should stop putting good shops in my top 10 list. They keep closing.
I’d like to take this opportunity to send out a warm welcome to KCPerky’s new Southland Coffee Correspondent, Jennifer! In her own words:
I recently joined Scott in this adventure to explore coffee shops beyond Starbucks. Don’t get me wrong I like Starbucks but there is definitely better coffee houses out there. I am helping out in this great adventure to go to the shops in Johnson County. I know that I’m here for a good time.
Think that coffee shops with art showings is as close as coffee and art come? Hardly! There are many shops in town that will offer art ON your coffee. Hardly a revolutionary idea, but this video adds a whole new perspective to the world of art on coffee:
For less exciting (but still good) latte art in KC, visit The Roastarie, Broadway Cafe, or Espresso dell’Anatra. Readers: Where else have you seen good coffee art in KC?
//update: the company in question that makes this is OnLatte
Green this, green that. Every publication under the sun is writing something about being green. So why not KCPerky saying how to greenify your coffee?
For our purposes today, we won’t be talking about the chances of global warming being real, and we won’t be going into a detailed account of what you can do in your own life to significantly slow it, despite China and pundits. We will be talking about waste management. Specifically, those cups and sleeves you keep using on your to-go coffee. I have two products that will get you set right…
Remember 3 weeks ago when I told you all to drink more coffee from the Top Ten Shops? Because the best shops in town keep closing? This is your opportunity to make good on that. Magazines and Coffee (currently #9 on top 10) is in trouble and might close soon.
[Deirdre Hanlon-Jones's] sales are about evenly divided between magazines and food, but her profit is higher on the food. Still, she doesn’t want to give up the magazines and become just another convenience store. She’s beefed up the lunch offerings with such items as vegetable parfait with carrots and sliced cucumbers that can be dipped in hummus or ranch dressing, and hot lunch specials such as red beans and rice, beef cooked in wine for 24 hours, and macaroni with three cheeses.
So help me keep a good shop open, and drink more coffee from MAC. As if my caffeine addiction isn’t bad enough already… Maybe just have more lunches there.
As a total aside, I’ve never seen a coffee shop as busy as I did see City Market Coffeehouse on Saturday morning. People jammed in everywhere, the 3 baristas were brewing as if their lives depended on it.
But the real news is Ethos. The Ethos Coffee Cars of the Ethos Coffee Company are quite a new twist. We’ve had delivery pizza, Chinese, sandwiches, and burritos. But now, you can call up the espresso cars (888-697-2392), they’ll drive to you, and brew you a fresh latte right out the back of their Scion xB. There is a minimum order, just like anywhere else, so grab your friends, but you never again have to whine about there not being a shop nearby! No word yet on how good it tastes.
I stumbled across Ethos at the Celebration at the Station. I could easily see them doing other large events, parking next to the kettle corn trailer and the funnel cake trailer. Its like the ice cream truck… for adults.
