In early 1998, feeling rejuvenated from the (obvious by the line out the door), David and Goliath like victory over the Seattle coffee giant, Sara and Jon looked at each other and wondered, what next for the Broadway Café?  Sara had worked for a roaster in Chicago while in college, and had always been interested in coffee roasting.  Jon had been pulling shots with different blends from all over the world for years trying to find the secret of the richest, smoothest, velvety espresso.   The thought of sourcing the best green coffee, and roasting in the cozy confines of the Broadway Café appeared to be the next chapter in the evolution of the Broadway Café.

        Now, six years later, and over 150,000 pounds of green coffee roasted, give or take a couple bags, we have grown out of the roasting space at the Broadway Café.

        The new Broadway Roasting Company is located at 301 Westport Road, in the East Village of Westport.   You can still smell the coffee from the front door of the Broadway Café when the wind is blowing just right.   Why so close to the Broadway some may ask?   Why not open another location out South, Brookside maybe, The Crossroads District, maybe even Downtown?   Well, we didn’t want to move out of Westport.   We love being in Westport.   From the parking problems to the panhandlers, this is where we started back in 1992 and this is where we’ll stay.   Besides, you can get coffee roasted by The Broadway Roasting Company, at Bella Napoli in Brookside, YJ’s Third World Snack Shop in the Crossroads, or at Blue Spoon Coffee in the Town Pavillion, Downtown.

        The Broadway Roasting Company allows us more space for the 20+ different coffees we are roasting daily, easy parking on the street or in our parking lot, a full service espresso bar for carry-out, and shorter lines than the Broadway, as of this writing.    Come in and explore the world through coffee.    A pound of our coffee is cheaper than a flight to Addis Addaba, the capital of Ethiopia, and when you grind and brew our Ethiopian Harrar "Horse", you'd think you were drinking it with Mohammed Ogsady himself.