Outta the Blue Cafe

a beach-themed coffee shop and bar in Leawood’s Park Place, opened June 2021 as the latest café/bar concept from Made in KC, the locally owned Kansas City maker-retail brand. Same three founders as the parent brand (Tyler Enders, Keith Bradley, Thomas McIntyre); a locally owned, multi-location concept. Tier 2 — local with a multi-location-brand qualifier.

Description

Outta the Blue Cafe is a beach-themed coffee shop and bar in the Park Place mixed-use development in Leawood, Kansas. It is the latest café/bar concept from Made in KC, the Kansas City maker-retail brand, and opened in June 2021 — a soft opening on June 9 and a grand opening on June 19.¹²³

The space leans hard into a tropical-oasis aesthetic: full-size live palm trees trucked in from California, surfboards mounted on the walls, palm fronds overhead, and cabana-like swings lining the front windows.²⁴ The format is café by day, bar by night — counter-service local coffee in the mornings transitioning to natural wines and classic tropical cocktails. The coffee is a custom blend of African and Central American beans roasted for the shop by Christopher Oppenhuis’s Marcell Coffee; the food and drink program features cold-pressed juices, vegan breakfast sandwiches from Mattie’s, and baked goods from Parisi, KC Baking Co. and other local makers.³⁵ Published hours are Mon–Thu 7a–10p, Fri–Sat 7a–11p, Sun 7a–6p.⁶

The concept extends the Made in KC pattern of leaning on local suppliers and makers, channeled here through a single-theme café/bar rather than the brand’s retail-forward format.

Ownership and history

Period	Operator / milestone
March 2021	Made in KC announces a new coffee shop and bar concept for Leawood’s Park Place.1
June 9, 2021	Outta the Blue soft-opens at 5291 W 116th Pl, Park Place, Leawood.23
June 19, 2021	Grand opening.3
2021 → present	Operates as a Made in KC café/bar concept; remains open.67

Outta the Blue is owned and operated by the three Made in KC co-founders — Tyler Enders, Keith Bradley, and Thomas McIntyre — and is not a separate company; it is a sibling concept to made-in-kc-cafe within the locally owned, independent Made in KC brand. No outside chain or private-equity parent is indicated in any source reviewed.¹²⁴

Menu

Last verified: 2026-06-22 · Sources: menu-aggregator listings + press coverage (official menu is image-only / not machine-readable; see note) · Price confidence: Medium for café items; unverified for exact per-item prices

Outta the Blue runs a café-by-day, bar-by-night program: local-roaster coffee and seasonal espresso drinks in the mornings, a small food lineup of breakfast sandwiches and local-maker pastries, and a tropical cocktail / natural-wine list by night. Menu categories and signature items below are corroborated across press coverage and multiple menu aggregators; the café publishes its menus as on-page images, so exact item-by-item pricing could not be machine-verified from a primary source. “

Coffee & espresso

• House coffee — custom African + Central American blend roasted for the café by Marcell Coffee (Christopher Oppenhuis).³⁵
• Espresso drinks and lattes, including rotating seasonal specialty lattes (e.g., brown sugar cinnamon latte; oat-milk matcha latte) and iced/cold-coffee options.⁸⁹

Non-coffee & tea

• Matcha and a hot tea selection; cold-pressed juices.³⁸⁹

Food, pastries & breakfast

• Breakfast sandwiches (incl. a Parisi-coffee-adjacent / vegan option from Mattie’s per opening coverage; aggregators note a waffle bacon-egg-and-cheese).³⁸⁹
• Pastries & baked goods from local makers — gourmet “pop-tarts,” cheese danish, lemon-blueberry cake, plus gluten-free options; baked goods sourced from Parisi, KC Baking Co. and others.³⁸⁹

Cocktails & wine (bar program)

• Tropical cocktail list (“On the Beach”-style menu): Mojito, Daiquiri, Painkiller, Blue Hawaiian, Mai Tai, plus a Chai Espresso Martini / espresso-martini and a Piña Colada / Coffee Martini.⁸⁹⁴
• Natural wine program (the café’s published wine menu, “OuttaTheBlue_WineMenu,” is posted on the official site).⁶

Price posture: café/coffee items are low-cost (aggregator reviews report roughly $1–10 per person for the café side); cocktails and the natural-wine list run higher. Exact menu prices are unverified — the official site presents menus as images and no aggregator gives a reliable primary-sourced price list. “

Links

• Website: https://www.outtatheblue.co/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outtathebluecafe/ “ (seed listed @outtatheblue; multiple sources and the cafe’s Facebook page indicate the active handle is @outtathebluecafe — the bare @outtatheblue handle resolves to unrelated accounts)
• Phone: (913) 217-8220

See also

• made-in-kc-cafe
• Registry

Sources

Footnotes

1. Johnson County Post, “Made in KC bringing new coffee shop and bar to Leawood’s Park Place” (Mar 11, 2021). https://johnsoncountypost.com/2021/03/11/made-in-kc-coffee-shop-outta-the-blue-leawood-115976/ (Park Place location; founders Bradley, McIntyre, Enders; Made in KC concept). ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Startland News, “Made in KC opens beachy JoCo café Outta The Blue” (Jun 2021). https://www.startlandnews.com/2021/06/outta-the-blue/ (5291 W 116th Pl; founders; palm trees, surfboards, swings; café/bar concept). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. Johnson County Post, “Outta the Blue cafe from Made in KC brings beach theme to Park Place in Leawood” (Jun 14, 2021). https://johnsoncountypost.com/2021/06/14/outta-the-blue-park-place-leawood-124668/ (soft open Jun 9, grand opening Jun 19; Marcell Coffee; Mattie’s, Parisi, KC Baking Co.; natural wines, tropical cocktails). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

4. Feast Magazine, “In Leawood, Kansas, Outta the Blue is serving up beach vibes in a glass from morning to night.” https://www.feastmagazine.com/travel/kansas-city/in-leawood-kansas-outta-the-blue-is-serving-up-beach-vibes-in-a-glass-from/article_b178551e-ebe3-11eb-a446-4fb6b20c24e4.html (atmosphere; ownership; concept). ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. Restaurant Guru / aggregated coverage — custom African + Central American house roast by Christopher Oppenhuis’s Marcell Coffee; cold-pressed juices, vegan breakfast sandwiches, grab-and-go. https://restaurantguru.com/Outta-the-Blue-Cafe-Leawood ↩ ↩²

6. Outta the Blue Cafe — official site. https://www.outtatheblue.co/ (address 5291 W 116th Pl, Leawood KS 66211; phone 913-217-8220; hours Mon–Thu 7a–10p, Fri–Sat 7a–11p, Sun 7a–6p; “little slice of paradise in South KC’s Park Place”). ↩ ↩² ↩³

7. Park Place (Leawood) — directory listing for Outta the Blue. https://parkplaceleawood.com/directory/outta-the-blue/ (phone (913) 217-8220; website; hours; beach-themed café). ↩

8. Wheree — Outta the Blue Cafe menu (updated 2026). https://outta-the-blue-cafe.wheree.com/menu (menu categories: basic coffee, deep-dive specialties, non-coffee, hot tea, pastries, breakfast sandwiches, cocktail menu; seasonal lattes — brown sugar cinnamon, oat-milk matcha; gourmet pop-tarts, gluten-free pastries; waffle bacon-egg-and-cheese; cheese danish; lemon-blueberry cake). No verifiable per-item prices. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

9. Aggregated café-menu listings — RestaurantGuru, MenuPix, and joe coffee (Outta the Blue’s listed mobile-order/coffee platform). https://restaurantguru.com/Outta-the-Blue-Cafe-Leawood · https://www.menupix.com/kansascity/restaurants/31998119/Outta-the-Blue-Cafe-Leawood-KS · https://joe.coffee/locations/ks/leawood/outta-the-blue-cafe-leawood/ (corroborate coffee/espresso lattes, iced/cold coffee, espresso/coffee/coffee martini, piña colada, tropical cocktails, cold-pressed juices, breakfast sandwiches and pastries). joe.coffee page was fetch-blocked (403) and official menus are image-only; exact prices unverified. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵