Image the state of Texas. The Texas Panhandle sits atop it like a ten-gallon hat, and proper there within the center is the town of Amarillo. With a inhabitants of round 200,000, Amarillo strides the historic U.S. Route 66, midway between Oklahoma Metropolis to the east and Albuquerque to the west. Right here’s the place you’ll discover the newly opened, newly relocated house of 107 Roasters & Cafe, a curious “rock-and-roll themed cafe” with a singular tackle espresso right here in 2026. Let’s be taught extra.
The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is offered by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.
As advised to Sprudge by Patrick Tate.
For many who aren’t acquainted, will you inform us about your organization?
107 Roasters & Cafe is a rock and roll themed cafe with 107 music themed drinks on the menu and an in-house roasting facility with 10 years of historical past. We simply relocated from DFW to Amarillo. We’re household owned and bake recent baked items day by day in home. Our motto is Relate, Educate, and Caffeinate. Our drinks are named after traditional songs or music associated. For instance, “Livin’ La Vida Mocha” is a Mocha FroJava (Frappe made with actual espresso and clear substances), “Wipeout” is a tropical tubular coconut limeade (glowing and may have customized quantities of caffeine or none if requested) and Berry White, a blueberry white mocha.
Are you able to inform us a bit concerning the new house?
Rock and roll vibes on the cafe, manufacturing and retail at our manufacturing subsequent door. Vinyls, music, and rock on the partitions with our menu being featured not solely on the wall, however on CDs and in jukeboxes as nicely with artwork paying tribute to traditional albums from yesteryear. The roasting facility gives free public excursions and encompasses a espresso museum that pays tribute to the rising, historical past, and the packaging of espresso all through the years.
What’s your strategy to espresso?
Espresso needs to be FUN, thrilling, and an expression of your self. We break the principles when obligatory whereas staying true to the classics and adapting to prospects’ wants and needs. We name our prospects “Followers” as a result of we imagine in offering a service to the general public by creating an distinctive expertise designed round our mannequin “Relate, Educate, and Caffeinate.” We would like our followers to strike up a enjoyable dialog with our workers, train them one thing about espresso they didn’t know, and serve a drink that not solely matches their wants, however can be an extension and expression of themselves. We’re the bridge between conventional, third wave, and fashionable informal drive by ideas. We hold conventional alive with drinks like cortados and smaller drinks with extra espresso in them at our cafe and we push for extra conventional low acidity coffees at our roasting facility. We push the envelope of experimentation in a post-third wave world with drinks like our espresso shooters, a homage to the origins of Italian espresso. We additionally proceed to search out new methods to caffeinate our followers with customized vitality drinks, Frappes with Oreos, and a S’mores type drink with a marshmallow and graham cracker rim. We keep experimental whereas staying approachable to anybody who walks in.
Any machines, coffees, particular tools lined up?
We’ve got a Loring Kestrel 35-kilo roaster, a Nuova Simonelli Aurelia Wave 2, and we make Okay-Cups in home. Our hottest coffees are Bombay Bluebonnet (An India Monsoon Malabar & Kona Mix), Espresso Journey (A Kenya/Colombia mix designed for espresso machines each for cafes and residential), and we also have a espresso infused steak rub that’s good on something.
What’s your hopeful goal opening date/month?
Could thirtieth. Our cafe will re open in Amarillo after transferring from McKinney, TX
Are you working with craftspeople, architects, and/or creatives that you just’d like to say?
We’ve got a staff of homeowners and nice proficient baristas. Elaine Krazer is an award successful venture supervisor and scheduler that has labored for big scale corporations like NASA, Tesla, and Meta and grew up on a espresso farm in Kenya. Roaster Dave is a retired mechanic that fell in love with roasting. Their son, Patrick, studied espresso retailers for 10 years, designed all 107 drinks and albums and handles the cafe operations. Daron Casler grew up with Elaine abroad and is a marriage DJ and has labored in radio prior. Kristi Casler is Daron’s spouse and has been baking for locals for a number of years. The art work in our store is an amalgamation of the work of lots of our baristas who additionally do artwork on the aspect.
Thanks!
You’re welcome! Thank YOU!
The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is offered by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.
