For UMKC graduate and shop owner Ben White, Transit Coffee was less a lifelong dream and more a perfect opportunity to do what he loves while serving the Kansas City area. Transit Coffee, which will not officially open until Sep. 3, is located on 40th and Main and recently...

Messenger Coffee Co. is taking over the last two Kaldi’s Coffee in Kansas City to remodel them under their own brand. The two Kaldi’s Coffee locations in the Country Club Plaza will be closed by April 1, and Messenger plans to reopen them later that month. The new locations...

Lost in the mazes of warehouses and gravel roads of the West Bottoms of Kansas City, the last thing you’d expect to see is a Vietnamese dragon painting, rich with bold red, blue and yellow hues alongside the simple declaration “COFFEE.” If you’ve stumbled across this...