Made in KC Cafe

the downtown coffee bar and craft-cocktail extension of Made in KC, the Kansas City maker-retail brand championing 300+ local makers and artists. Founded in Kansas City in 2015 (retail) and 2017 (café) by three local friends; a multi-location, locally owned brand. Tier 2 — local with a multi-location qualifier; strong KC-rooted editorial case.

Description

Made in KC Cafe is the downtown coffee-and-cocktail bar arm of Made in KC, the Kansas City maker-retail brand that sells goods from 300+ local makers and artists. The café opened in December 2017 inside the historic building at 1114 Baltimore Avenue — the New Yorker building, between the former Hotel Phillips and Hotel Indigo, a short walk from the 12th & Main KC Streetcar stop.¹²

The format is a hybrid: a coffee bar fronts a retail area stocked with Kansas City-made merchandise, with seating and event space and a cocktail/bar program. The house coffee blend is roasted locally, with rotating single-origin offerings from area roasters; the original café also leaned on a rotating cast of local roasters from the start.¹³ The concept’s stated mission — “celebrate the best of Kansas City one drink, one maker, one neighbor at a time” — folds the café directly into the broader Made in KC thesis of giving local artisans a fair, well-trafficked platform.¹

Ownership and history

Period	Operator / milestone
May 2015	Made in KC founded by Tyler Enders, Keith Bradley, and Thomas McIntyre; first boutique at Prairiefire (Overland Park) — “the store that started it all.”45
December 2017	Made in KC Cafe opens at 1114 Baltimore Ave, downtown KC — a ~2,300 sq ft hybrid coffee/retail space with planned taproom.2
2020	Made in KC Trolley Café opens (decommissioned 1947 streetcar, since-evolved concept).6
2021	Outta the Blue — a beach-themed coffee shop + bar — opens in Leawood’s Park Place under the same three founders.78
2015 → present	Brand expands to a multi-location maker-retail + café network (Marketplaces, Neighborhood Shops, and Cafés + Bars), all locally owned.5

The three founders are documented as the continuous owners. Tyler Enders (KU finance/economics, 2011) is the most publicly profiled of the three; Keith Bradley and Thomas McIntyre co-founded and co-own.⁹⁷ Made in KC is independent and locally owned — no chain or private-equity parent is indicated in any source reviewed.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-06-23 · Source: Made in KC Café official menu page + brand café page + third-party listings · URL(s): https://www.mikccafe.com/menu · https://madeinkc.co/pages/made-in-kc-cafe-bar-downtown · Confidence: Medium — drink lineup verified from the official menu; food items corroborated only via third-party listings (no official food menu published); per-item prices not published on official sources. menu_status: partial

Coffee & espresso (the anchor)

• The Basics — Latte, House Coffee (custom house blend roasted locally), Single Origin Coffee, Cold Brew, Espresso, Americano, Cappuccino, Cortado, Macchiato.¹⁰
• Signature lattes — Birdie (dirty chai, brown-sugar cinnamon), Midwest Nice (caramel vanilla latte), Monáe (rose vanilla matcha), Paris of the Plains (honey, vanilla, cinnamon latte), Pothole (hazelnut mocha), Swelce (lavender honey latte).¹⁰
• Weekend specials — Cereal Milk Latte and Cereal Milk Steamer (nostalgic cereal-infused milk).¹⁰¹¹
• Frozen — Fountainccino (frozen coffee specialty).¹⁰
• Non-coffee — Matcha Latte, Chai Latte, Tea Fog, Italian Soda, Hot Chocolate; loose teas (Earl Grey, Green, White, Chamomile herbal) and iced varieties (Black, Green, Mango Black, Hibiscus Berry).¹⁰

Food

No official food menu is published; items below are corroborated only via third-party listings/reviews and rotate. “

• Pastries & sweets — house-made cinnamon rolls, quiche, pies, muffins (blueberry), biscuits, doughnuts, egg waffles — sourced from Kansas City brands.¹¹¹²
• Breakfast / savory — breakfast sandwiches, bacon, chorizo (as listed by third-party menu aggregators).¹²

Bar (craft cocktails, local beer & wine)

• Cocktails — KC Old Fashioned, KC Mule, Meet Me on the Blvd, Good Morning Baltimore, Red Kingdom, 18th and Vine, Hotel Bray, Shuttlecock — built on Kansas City spirits, shrubs, and mixers.¹⁰
• Draft beer — Tank 7, Space Camper, Quirk Seltzer Rad AF, Dunkel, plus rotating local taps.¹⁰
• Wine — local pours from KC Wineworks, Amigoni, Baciamoci, and Fenestra/Fencestile vineyards.¹⁰

Price tier: Medium (third-party listings place per-person spend in the ~$10–$20 range; “good tea and pastries at affordable prices”).¹² Per-item prices are unverified — not published on official sources as of 2026-06-23.

Links

• Website: https://madeinkc.co (brand) · https://www.mikccafe.com (café)
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeinkc/
• Phone: (816) 895-8053 “ (café/brand published numbers vary: (816) 468-3831 and 816.585.2459 appear on café pages¹¹³)

See also

• downtown-kc
• Registry

Sources

Footnotes

1. Made in KC Café — About. https://www.mikccafe.com/about (café address 1114 Baltimore Ave KC MO 64105; founders; locally-roasted house blend; mission statement; hours). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Startland News, “Made in KC Cafe opens downtown with experimental blend of coffee, retail” (Dec 2017). https://www.startlandnews.com/2017/12/made-in-kc-cafe-experimental-blend/ (opened Dec 15, 2017; 1114 Baltimore; ~2,300 sq ft; founders; works with ~10 roasters). ↩ ↩²

3. Feast Magazine, “Made in Kansas City Cafe Adds Coffee to the Retail Favorite.” https://www.feastmagazine.com/shop/shop_kansas_city/article_d56ed846-4cc0-11e8-970f-7fa1aac5a0fa.html ↩

4. Lenexa Chamber of Commerce — Made in KC member profile (founded May 2015 by Keith Bradley, Tyler Enders, Thomas McIntyre; original Prairiefire/Overland Park mission). https://cca.lenexa.org/made-in-kc-__1_358_313903_memberprofile2.aspx ↩

5. Made in KC — Locations. https://madeinkc.co/pages/locations (Prairiefire “the store that started it all”; multi-location network: Marketplaces, Neighborhood Shops, Cafés + Bars). ↩ ↩²

6. Feast Magazine, “The Made in KC Trolley Café…” (2021). https://www.feastmagazine.com/travel/kansas-city/the-made-in-kc-trolley-caf-is-serving-drinks-and-selling-local-goods-inside-a/article_e7298f72-ef1f-11eb-8e0f-6796b604e29b.html ↩

7. Startland News, “Made in KC opens beachy JoCo café Outta The Blue” (Jun 2021). https://www.startlandnews.com/2021/06/outta-the-blue/ (Outta the Blue, Leawood Park Place, by Bradley, McIntyre, Enders). ↩ ↩²

8. Johnson County Post, “Made in KC bringing new coffee shop and bar to Leawood’s Park Place” (Mar 2021). https://johnsoncountypost.com/2021/03/11/made-in-kc-coffee-shop-outta-the-blue-leawood-115976/ ↩

9. Startland News, “KCultivator Q&A: Tyler Enders…” (Feb 2018). https://www.startlandnews.com/2018/02/kcultivator-qa-tyler-enders/ (Enders profile; KU finance/economics; Made in KC = platform for 300+ local makers). ↩

10. Made in KC Café — Menu. https://www.mikccafe.com/menu (signature lattes Birdie/Midwest Nice/Monáe/Paris of the Plains/Pothole/Swelce; the Basics espresso lineup; house blend roasted locally; Cereal Milk Latte/Steamer weekend specials; Fountainccino; non-coffee + tea list; cocktails KC Old Fashioned/KC Mule/Meet Me on the Blvd/Good Morning Baltimore/Red Kingdom/18th and Vine/Hotel Bray/Shuttlecock; draft beer Tank 7/Space Camper/Quirk Seltzer/Dunkel; wine from KC Wineworks/Amigoni/Baciamoci/Fencestile). No per-item prices or food menu published. Verified 2026-06-23. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

11. Made in KC Café — home. https://www.mikccafe.com/ (“KC’s finest roasts, pastries & spirits”; house blend roasted locally by Marcell; Cereal Milk Latte; cinnamon rolls and quiche noted). Verified 2026-06-23. ↩ ↩²

12. Restaurant Guru — Made in KC Cafe, Kansas City. https://restaurantguru.com/Made-in-KC-Cafe-Kansas-City-Missouri (third-party listing: pies, breakfast sandwiches, chorizo, fruitcake, biscuits, blueberry muffins; per-person price tier ~$10–$20; “affordable” pastries/tea). Corroborating only — not an official menu. Accessed 2026-06-23. ↩ ↩² ↩³

13. Made in KC — Café + Bar | Downtown. https://madeinkc.co/pages/made-in-kc-cafe-bar-downtown (address 1114 Baltimore Ave KC MO 64105; phone 816.585.2459; hours). ↩