Someplace simply south of Denton, Texas—or maybe within the sprawling Ft. Price suburbs, relying on the way you take a look at it—sits the town of Northlake (inhabitants 5,000). It’s house to Perform Espresso Co, a brand new espresso bar rooted within the North Texas espresso scene. From roaster to pop-up to a model new cafe, let’s study extra in regards to the story of Perform Espresso.
The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is offered by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.
For many who aren’t acquainted, will you inform us about your organization?
Perform Espresso Co was actually a dream 13 years within the making. Opening a restaurant is inherently dangerous, so my spouse Devin recommended I begin by roasting espresso, constructing the model and neighborhood first, and seeing the place it went.
So, whereas I used to be nonetheless working my company job, I launched Perform Espresso Co as a espresso roasting firm. Not lengthy after, we began taking a espresso cart to farmers markets and pop-ups, promoting our baggage of espresso alongside canned iced chilly brew lattes that we made and sealed proper in entrance of the visitor.
By our third pop-up, the road wrapped across the market, and that was the second we realized this is perhaps greater than we initially thought. The neighborhood was getting behind Perform Espresso Co in a approach we by no means might have anticipated.
From roasting our first bag of espresso to opening the doorways of our cafe was simply 435 days. I documented primarily the whole course of on social media—the wins, errors, building, gear, every little thing—which allowed the neighborhood to be a part of constructing Perform Espresso Co alongside us. Their assist has been fairly wild to expertise.
Are you able to inform us a bit in regards to the new house?
Though we love a stark, minimalist espresso store from time to time, we knew that wasn’t Perform Espresso Co.
We needed the house to really feel wealthy with shade, whimsy, and luxury—someplace you’ll be able to go searching just a few occasions and proceed noticing stuff you missed earlier than. There are little “Easter eggs” hidden all through the cafe, surprising particulars, color-drenched partitions, crops, and maximalist-vintage affect.
We had been additionally actually intentional about not having a drive-thru, and actually haven’t even turned on cell ordering but. From a enterprise standpoint, we understood what we had been giving up, particularly within the suburbs, however we needed our first cafe to be a spot the place we might truly join with the neighborhood.
We needed to know the individuals coming by means of the doorways, study their names and their orders, and create a spot that felt prefer it belonged to the neighborhood fairly than merely being one other place to seize espresso on the best way by means of.
What’s your method to espresso?
Our method is basically about eradicating the pretension with out eradicating the standard.
We supply and roast specialty espresso ourselves, and we care so much about how every espresso is expressed. On the similar time, we by no means need somebody to really feel like they should know espresso terminology to order from us—and our menu displays that. You will get a straight espresso or an excellent batch brew, however we additionally put quite a lot of vitality into inventive signature drinks. We wish the espresso to stay the inspiration of these drinks fairly than getting buried beneath every little thing else.
Finally, we wish Perform Espresso Co to be the type of place the place “coffee-coffee individuals” can admire what we’re doing, however everybody else can simply assume, “That’s a extremely good cup of espresso.”
Any machines, coffees, particular gear lined up?
Our espresso bar is constructed round a three-group Rocket RE Doppia, paired with Mahlkönig E80W GbS and Mahlkönig E65W Grind-by-Sync grinders.
How is your undertaking contemplating sustainability?
One of many largest sustainability choices we made truly occurred earlier than we opened the cafe.
We roast on two full-stack Bellwether electrical roasters. They’re all-electric and produce practically 90% fewer emissions than conventional gas-fired espresso roasters.
For us, sustainability isn’t one thing we needed to tack onto the cafe afterward. It’s constructed into one of the crucial elementary components of our enterprise: how we produce the espresso we serve day by day.
What’s your hopeful goal opening date/month?
We formally opened the doorways to our first brick-and-mortar cafe on Might 16, 2026.
Are you working with craftspeople, architects, and/or creatives that you just’d like to say?
My spouse Devin and I designed the house and model ourselves, which made the undertaking particularly private for us. We labored with Riverwood on the build-out and Kline Hardin as our architect. My dad and I additionally did quite a lot of the finish-out.
Thanks!
The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is offered by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.
