Cafés / The Roastery
Tasting room and toursThe Roastery.
Where every bag is roasted. A small bar beside the roaster, cupping on Saturday mornings, and a shop with everything we make, including the things that sell out everywhere else.

Open today Closed, roasting
Hours
- Monday
- Closed, roasting
- Tuesday
- Closed, roasting
- Wednesday
- 8am – 4pm
- Thursday
- 8am – 4pm
- Friday
- 8am – 4pm
- Saturday
- 8am – 4pm
- Sunday
- 8am – 4pm
Find us
9 Foundry Lane
Chicago, Illinois
- Off Foundry Lane, through the yard gate
- Ten minutes from the station on foot
- Parking in the yard
What’s here
- Cupping, Saturdays at nine, free
- Tours by arrangement, always for schools
- Every coffee and all the merch
- Barista training for wholesale customers
- Parking in the yard


On the counter
What to order.
A short bar: every single origin by the cup, the week’s roasts side by side, and whatever the roaster is testing. Mondays and Tuesdays the doors are shut and the roaster is running.
- EspressoA double, always
- CortadoEqual parts, a small glass
- Batch brewHouse Line, refilled all morning
- Pour-overToday’s single origin
- Grilled cheeseThree cheeses on sourdough, since 1974
The others
All cafésMore cafés.

The original, since 1974
Station Street

Café and bakery
Lakeview

Café and patio
Prairie Road

Café in the mall
The Galleria

Coffee kiosk
Lakeshore Commons
Letters from the roastery
Coffee is always a good idea.
A note when a new coffee lands or the cafés change the menu, and not much else.
This is a Lacoura portfolio website: nothing is sent.
You are on the list. Java time, anytime.