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Everyone deserves a great cup of coffee. We believe that everyone deserves a great cup of coffee. Little City was an iconic Austin cafe for nearly 20 years.

That’s why our small crew of java lovers are re-launching Little City Coffee Roasters, a brand synonymous with classic Austin, and offering a product sourced from some of the best growers in the world and roasted here in the Capital City. After all, coffee has historically been a drink for everyone, an inclusive experience like the city itself. Austin has always been a city that has thrived on creativity and opened its arms to everyone. There was no better place to watch this scene unfold than at Little City cafe, the iconic coffeehouse on Congress Avenue frequented by everyone from lobbyists to film industry heroes to bike messengers to students to Austin's less fortunate, all enjoying a great cup of coffee. After the cafe closed its doors, we felt like something special was missing in our city. That's why we want to bring these coffees back into the hands of the people who loved Little City Coffee by making them available on the shelves of retailers and coffee shops!

09/17/2026

Little City opened on Congress Avenue in downtown Austin in 1993. The café ran for eighteen years. The roastery kept going after it closed, and thirty-three years later, we're still sourcing and roasting specialty coffee here in Austin.

08/27/2026

We source, blend, and roast the Cold Brew Blend for one job: cold extraction. Full-bodied, creamy milk chocolate, with a lift of red fruit. Medium roast, year-round.
Eric Wolf, our Director of Coffee, makes his in a mason jar. Here is his go-to recipe —
4 oz (113 g) Cold Brew Blend, ground coarse
32 oz room-temperature filtered water, filled to the top so every ground is saturated
Wait a few minutes. A crust forms on the surface. Stir it back in.
Cap the jar and steep 12–24 hours, gently turning it over now and then so the grounds stay under water.
Pour through a fine mesh strainer into a clean jar. Line the strainer with a paper coffee filter for a less cloudy brew.
What comes out of the jar is a concentrate, so dilute it to taste. Eric starts around one-to-one with filtered water and adjusts from there — a little less water if you are going over ice or adding milk, since those dilute it too. Keep it refrigerated and use it within a week, in coffee, in cocktails, even in BBQ sauce.
No grinder? Order it ground and choose Coarse at checkout.
12 oz and 5 lb. Subscribe and save.

https://littlecity.com/product/cold-brew-blend/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=cold_brew_blend

08/19/2026

New arrival: Honduras Finca Terrerito. Maple, almond, plum.

Terrerito sits in the mountains of Copán, founded by Adelmo “Al” Lopez. Al is a fourth-generation coffee grower. He brings new technologies and techniques to his family's storied production, ensuring a clean, consistent portfolio of diverse flavor profiles.

The neighbors are in this lot too. Terrerito buys fresh cherry from small producers in Belén Gualcho and San Sebastián, pays them the day they deliver, and gives them access to processing they could not run on their own. The value stays on the mountain.

Honey processed — the fruit's skin is stripped, but the sticky mucilage stays on the bean. It ferments slowly out on the patio while the coffee dries, and that is where the maple and the stone fruit come from.

A small lot, 12 oz and 5 lb, whole bean or ground. From $19.99.

https://littlecity.com/product/finca-terrerito/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=terrerito_launch

07/17/2026

How are you spending your Austin summer? ☀️
Barton Springs in the morning, the lake in the afternoon, the porch once it finally cools off — everyone has their way through a Texas summer.
Tell us yours in the comments, and vote in our Stories.
We'll be keeping it iced — the Summer Blend is light, bright, and makes a great cold brew, too.

https://littlecity.com/product/summer-blend/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=summer&utm_content=austin-summer

07/15/2026

Coffee is a fruit. A drupe, technically — the same kind of stone fruit as a cherry or an olive. 🍒
Slice one open and there are six layers. Three make up the fruit (the pericarp): the exocarp (skin), the mesocarp (the sweet, pectin-rich mucilage), and the endocarp (the parchment shell). Three make up the seed: the perisperm (silverskin), the endosperm (the bean you roast), and the embryo (the start of the next tree).
Why does a roaster care? Because the bean is a living seed. Every layer has its own chemistry and its own reaction to heat and moisture — and reading them is how a grower shapes flavor and delivers a consistently clean cup, harvest after harvest.
Taste the fruit — 15% off your first order.

https://littlecity.com/shop/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=coffee101&utm_content=coffee-is-a-fruit

07/12/2026

Sunday PSA: your first Little City order could be 15% cheaper. ☕

Join the list for 15% off your first order, first word on new microlots, and zero spam. Takes 15 seconds — link below.

https://linkin.bio/littlecitycoffee

07/10/2026

Austin, 1993. A little downtown coffee shop with a big idea: everyone deserves a great cup of coffee. ✨

The name came first — five UT grads, homesick in San Francisco, kept meeting in coffee shops to talk about their "little city." They came home, opened at 916 Congress, and for 18 years it was Austin's living room: legislators to Leslie, bike messengers on the patio, a line out the door on Tuesday nights.

Thirty-three years and thousands of batches later — we're still roasting fresh to order, still Austin to the bone, now shipping nationwide.

Do you have some stories from back in the day at Little City? DM us or tell us below — we'd love to hear from you.

The whole story:
https://littlecity.com/our-story/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=austin_1993

07/08/2026

Behind every Travelers Club box, there's a face and a place. 🌍

A grower in the Shan hills of Myanmar. An elder in Kenya. An experienced coffee and tea grower in Yunnan, China. A family farm in Carmo de Minas. These are the people we travel to meet — whose farms we walk, cup with, and buy from directly.

Every month, the Club brings one of their coffees to your door: a 12oz bag, and the story of who grew it.

Members get 5% off everything else at littlecity.com, and you can pause or skip anytime.

Swipe to meet them — then join the tour.

https://littlecity.com/travelersclub/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=travelers_club

07/03/2026

Austin Icons — the camp chair. ☕

Official furniture of Zilker sunsets, Barton Springs mornings, and every fireworks spot in town this weekend.

Happy 4th from Austin — wherever your chair lands this weekend, we hope there's a great cup in it. 🇺🇸

06/11/2026

New arrival: Rwanda Nyungwe ☕
High in Rwanda's Western Province, the Nyungwe washing station sits at 1,776 meters on just over a single hectare, right on the edge of Nyungwe Forest National Park — home to the farthest source of the Nile. About 1,000 smallholder farmers grow this coffee in rich volcanic soil and cool mountain air.
This lot is a Natural Red Bourbon, and the natural process leans all the way into ripe fruit. Expect a juicy, spice-driven cup with black tea, cherry, and dried fig — sweet and deep, but still clean and elegant.
High-grown Rwandan Arabica at its most expressive. Limited lot. 🇷🇼

https://littlecity.com/product/rwanda-nyungwe/

Address

9709 Brown Lane Ste F
Austin, TX
7854

Telephone

+15124079887

Website

http://www.littlecity.com/

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