MAPS Coffee & Chocolate

MAPS Coffee & Chocolate is a specialty coffee roaster and bean-to-bar chocolate maker in Old Town Lenexa, Kansas, founded by Vincent Rodriguez — a former Starbucks employee who turned a handmade-bicycle shop into a café that roasts its own coffee and makes chocolate from scratch with no additives.

Description

MAPS Coffee & Chocolate roasts specialty coffee in-house and makes chocolate from scratch with clean ingredients at its café in Old Town Lenexa.¹ Owner Vincent Rodriguez starts each chocolate bar with cacao, cocoa butter, and turbinado sugar, with no additives, preservatives, or soy lecithin.² The café occupies the former bike-shop space — reconfigured with seating for roughly 19 — pairing chocolate production with an eco-conscious coffee-roasting operation.² The shop also offers private sessions teaching how the team roasts coffee and makes chocolate.¹

Ownership and history

Owner Vincent Rodriguez left nearly two decades in a corporate job at Starbucks and in 2013 opened a shop where he built handmade bicycles in a back workshop.³ About a year later he bought a coffee roaster and began roasting; word spread through the local cycling community.³ He began making chocolate in 2016 — initially with help from his grandmother’s molcajete, a traditional Mexican grinding tool — and launched Maps Chocolate in 2017.³² By 2018 the coffee and chocolate side had grown enough that Rodriguez sold the bike shop and converted the space into the café.³² A longtime map lover and avid cyclist, Rodriguez chose the name “Maps” to reflect the business’s origins as a Lenexa bike shop.³

Links

• Website: https://mapscoffee.com/
• Location/hours: https://mapscoffee.com/pages/maps-coffee-chocolate-location-lenexa
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mapscoffeekc/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mapscoffeekc/

Menu

Last verified: 2026-06-20 · Source: Official site (mapscoffee.com) — chocolate, Bloc, and whole-bean coffee collections; café-drink detail from SinglePlatform/Yelp/local press · URL(s): https://mapscoffee.com/collections/chocolate, https://mapscoffee.com/collections/bloc, https://mapscoffee.com/collections/coffee, https://chuckeatskc.com/maps-coffee-chocolate-coffee-roaster-in-lenexa-kansas/ · Confidence: Medium–High (HIGH on retail/packaged product names + prices, which come straight from the official Shopify store; MEDIUM on in-café espresso/drink prices, which are not published online — drink items below are named from press/aggregators but carry no reliable per-drink café price)

MAPS pairs house-roasted espresso drinks with two signature in-house product lines: bean-to-bar craft chocolate made from cacao, cocoa butter, and turbinado sugar with no additives, and “Bloc” — a coffee confection that looks like chocolate but contains no chocolate at all.¹²⁴

Signature items (coffee + chocolate)

• Craft chocolate bars — bean-to-bar bars made from cacao, cocoa butter, and turbinado sugar, no additives/preservatives/soy lecithin. Lineup includes Heritage Dark, Heritage Extra Dark, Milk Chocolate, Coconut Milk Chocolate, London Fog, and Chili Pepper Passion. ($6.00 each)⁴
• Bloc — a coffee confection made to look and break like a chocolate bar but with no chocolate: roasted MAPS coffee beans, cocoa butter, and turbinado. Available as Original Coffee Bloc and Sugar-Free (keto) Coffee Bloc. ($4.00 each)⁵
• Mexican mocha — a frequently-praised café espresso drink; described in reviews as smooth with strong chocolate notes. (café price not published)⁶

Espresso & coffee (café)

• Espresso-based drinks: lattes, mochas (incl. Mexican mocha), and pour-overs, plus rotating seasonal offerings. (per-drink café prices not published online)⁶

Whole-bean coffee (house-roasted, retail)

• Blends & espresso — Milk Blend, Sprint Espresso, Decaf Sprint Espresso, Cadence Blend, Dirt Blend, #black, Volcan 37. (from ~$7.00/bag; sold by weight)⁷
• Single origin (rotating) — e.g. Gathering Blue Seas, Scarlet Macaw, Abyssinian Flower, Temple of the Great Jaguar, Emerald of the Andes, So Guji!, Island of Gold, 3rd Parallel North. (from ~$6.66–$8.37/bag)⁷
• Boxed Cold Brew — bulk boxed cold brew. ($32.00)⁷

Sources

• Status verified active 2026-06-23 via Yelp — MAPS Coffee & Chocolate, Lenexa (accessed 2026-06-23). Listing “Updated June 2026,” 68 reviews & 121 photos at 13440 Santa Fe Trail Dr; official site live with current hours; no closure flag.

Disputes

None at this time.

Footnotes

1. Maps Coffee & Chocolate — Location page. https://mapscoffee.com/pages/maps-coffee-chocolate-location-lenexa — asserts: address 13440 Santa Fe Trail Dr, Lenexa, KS 66215; phone (913) 444-5252; hours Mon–Fri 7am–3pm, Sat 8am–3pm, Sun 9am–2pm; in-house roasting and from-scratch chocolate. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. The Chocolate Professor profile (same article) — asserts: chocolate made from cacao, cocoa butter, turbinado sugar with no additives, preservatives, or soy lecithin; bike shop closed 2018 and was converted to a café with seating for ~19 plus coffee roasting. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. “Chocolate Shops We Love: Maps Coffee and Chocolate” — The Chocolate Professor. https://www.thechocolateprofessor.com/blog/chocolate-shops-we-love-maps-coffee-and-chocolate — asserts: owner Vincent Rodriguez; left Starbucks corporate job; opened handmade-bicycle shop in 2013; bought roaster ~a year later; began chocolate in 2016 with grandmother’s molcajete; launched Maps Chocolate 2017; sold bike shop 2018; name reflects map/cycling passion and bike-shop origins. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

4. Maps Coffee & Chocolate — Chocolate collection (official store). https://mapscoffee.com/collections/chocolate — asserts: craft chocolate bars at $6.00 each — Heritage Dark, Heritage Extra Dark, Milk Chocolate, Coconut Milk Chocolate, London Fog, Chili Pepper Passion; bean-to-bar (cacao, cocoa butter, turbinado sugar, no additives) per ¹². ↩ ↩²

5. Maps Coffee & Chocolate — Bloc collection (official store). https://mapscoffee.com/collections/bloc — asserts: Original Coffee Bloc and Sugar-Free Coffee Bloc at $4.00 each; Bloc = roasted MAPS coffee beans, cocoa butter, and turbinado, made to resemble chocolate but containing none. ↩

6. “Maps Coffee & Chocolate, Coffee Roaster in Lenexa, Kansas” — The Brazen Gourmets / ChuckEatsKC. https://chuckeatskc.com/maps-coffee-chocolate-coffee-roaster-in-lenexa-kansas/ — asserts: café serves espresso-based drinks; reviewer ordered a mocha described as smooth with good chocolate notes; corroborated by aggregator listings noting a praised Mexican mocha and pour-overs (no per-drink café prices published online). ↩ ↩²

7. Maps Coffee & Chocolate — Coffee collection (official store). https://mapscoffee.com/collections/coffee — asserts: whole-bean coffees including Milk Blend, Sprint Espresso, Decaf Sprint Espresso, Cadence Blend, Dirt Blend, #black, Volcan 37, and rotating single origins (Gathering Blue Seas, Scarlet Macaw, Abyssinian Flower, Temple of the Great Jaguar, Emerald of the Andes, So Guji!, Island of Gold, 3rd Parallel North); bag prices from ~$6.66; Boxed Cold Brew $32.00. ↩ ↩² ↩³