How It All Started
Encore Coffee & Chocolate began with a single passion: better coffee. What started as a weekend hobby over 20 years ago—roasting beans in a garage—quickly grew into an obsession with sourcing, flavor, and craftsmanship.
In 2016, we officially launched Encore as a small-batch roastery just outside Kansas City. By 2022, our curiosity had expanded into bean-to-bar chocolate, where the same hands-on care now goes into every bar we craft from ethically sourced cacao.
We’re still small. Still roasting. Still refining. And still obsessed with delivering the best possible cup and bite, every single time.
Small Batch, Big Flavor
We roast in small batches on our 12-kilo Millennium roaster, bringing out the unique character of every bean—fresh, flavorful, and never overdone.
Award-Winning Chocolate
We’ve won international awards three years in a row for our bean-to-bar chocolate. It’s ethically sourced cacao—never melted down couverture.
Ethical Sourcing
We partner with importers who prioritize transparency, farmer equity, and sustainability—because better ingredients make a better product.
Roasted with Intention
Our story starts with coffee. In the early 2000s, we were home-roasting single origins in a popcorn popper—chasing clarity, sweetness, and complexity one batch at a time. It wasn’t about trends or equipment back then. It was about learning what made a cup special.
Two decades later, we’re still just as obsessed. Today, we roast on a 12-kilo Millennium machine in small, carefully monitored batches. Every origin gets its own roast curve. Every profile is dialed in by hand. We taste everything—again and again—until we know the coffee is saying what it’s meant to say.
Our Signature Blends are designed to be approachable and reliable: the kind of coffee you can brew every morning and still look forward to. But behind the scenes, they’re built from fresh, seasonal single origins—so the cup stays balanced, nuanced, and full of life.
This is coffee made with purpose. No shortcuts. No bitter, burnt cover-ups. Just clean, character-driven flavor you can count on.
Chocolate from Scratch
We didn’t set out to make chocolate. We just wanted to learn how it worked. One origin led to another, and before long we were deep in the world of cacao — sourcing raw beans, learning traditional methods, and tasting every step of the way.
Today, we make every chocolate bar from scratch at our Kansas City facility. That means roasting cacao beans, refining them with ethically sourced sugar, and carefully conching and tempering each batch to bring out the best of every origin. We don’t re-melt mass-produced couverture. We do it the long way — because that’s the only way to capture real character.
Our efforts have earned national recognition, including multiple Craft Chocolate Challenge awards. But to us, great chocolate isn’t about gold medals — it’s about flavor, texture, and that quiet wow when someone takes their first bite.
From bean to bar, it's a slow, intentional craft. And we love every step of it.
Shop Online or In Person
Shopping with Encore is easy — whether you're ordering online or stopping by in person.
Place your order anytime through our online store for shipping across the U.S. If you’re local to Kansas City and want a specific roast, be sure to place your order by Monday at midnight. We roast fresh every Tuesday, with local pickups available Thursday or Friday between noon and 5 pm.
Just stopping by? We keep a small selection of 12 oz coffee bags available at the counter each week — along with our award-winning chocolate bars, seasonal gifts, t-shirts, and home brewing accessories.
📍 Encore Coffee & Chocolate
4322 E. 142nd Street, Grandview, MO 64030
☎️ 816-701-9150
Find Your Encore Favorite at Encore Coffee & Chocolate
Subscriptions, fresh-roasted coffee, and award-winning chocolate — all handcrafted in Kansas City.
Coffee Subscriptions
Fresh-roasted beans delivered to your door
Never run out of fresh-roasted specialty coffee. Our Coffee of the Month Club features a new coffee every month - roasted weekly and shipped fresh to your door.
Fresh-Roasted Coffee
Blends and single origins roasted weekly
Discover our lineup of specialty-grade coffees — from bold, reliable blends to seasonal single origins. Roasted in small batches for clarity, balance, and peak freshness.
Award-Winning Chocolate
Crafted from scratch using real cacao beans
Our bean-to-bar chocolate is made from ethically sourced cacao and handcrafted for bold, complex flavor. As a multi-year Craft Chocolate Challenge winner, we focus on quality you can taste in every bar.
Our Customers Love Us!
Great customer service on ordering online. Best coffee I have tasted!
Cindy B.
I have purchased coffee form Encore a few times and have never been disappointed! The aroma is amazing!
Larry H.
Encore Coffee provides excellent roasted coffee and outstanding customer service. We found Mike at Encore Coffee last fall through a word of mouth recommendation and we could not be happier.
John G.
Google Reviews
Great coffee and also great customer service! The Harmony breakfast blend is exactly The kind of coffee I like. Has a subtle chocolate flavor and not too acidic.
Robert S. - Oro Valley, AZ
Yelp
Some of the best roasted coffee available anywhere at reasonable prices. Encore Coffee company knows how to roast beans and the result is a perfect cup of coffee.
Roberta G. - New York, NY
Yelp