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Best coffee shops in Kansas City

Our guide to specialty coffee in Kansas City: 7 verified shops, including Blip Roasters, Café Corazón and Crows Coffee. Kansas City has built a deep bench of roaster-cafes, with several shops roasting their own beans across the Crossroads, River Market, West Bottoms, and the Plaza-area neighborhoods. It is an easy town to drink single-origin coffee close to where it was roasted.

7 verified shops · vetted, never pay-to-play

Verified means checked against our specialty criteria using each shop's own public information, not a visit. Last checked Jun 2026. How we choose

Union Station and downtown Kansas City seen from Liberty Memorial
Photo: Brian Hillegas, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, color-adjusted)

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