Prairie House Coffee Opens Public Bar Inside Its Orlando Roastery

Tucked into a warehouse park on Coolidge Avenue in College Park, Prairie House Coffee Roasting has opened a public bar inside its Orlando roastery, giving the sister-owned brand its second retail outpost and its most coffee-forward space yet.

The roastery at 2541 Coolidge Ave. keeps the industrial bones intact. Black walls, communal tables, merch shelves stacked with bags of house-roasted coffee, and a Typhoon roaster running production batches in one corner define the room. Wood accents and Canadian flags soften the warehouse aesthetic and nod to the Manitoba roots of founders Jade Dinsdale-Cyr and Alexa Maisonet. Seating tops out at roughly eight people.

"Our roastery is in a warehouse, in an industrial district. We wanted to hang onto that," roastery manager Rachel Sparks told Daily Coffee News. "We also brought in some wood pieces to connect to our roots and bring in some warmth."

The name traces back to the sisters' grandmother, who kept a little house on the Canadian prairies where the family gathered after dinner for coffee, pastries, and conversation. "They want you to feel like you're just walking into somebody's home when you go in there," Sparks said. "That's really important to us, that we make you feel very welcome whenever you're in our space."

The bar is not chasing the seasonal-drink crowd. "I think it's really fun to introduce people to a side of coffee that they might not see all the time," Sparks said. "This won't really be the location where you're going to come in and get a sugar cookie or pumpkin spice latte, but it will be a place where you can come in and learn about coffee."

A selection of fresh-baked goods will be available, with some gluten-free pastries carried over from the Oakland location, which opened in September 2021 at 4 S. Tubb Street in the oldest building in Orange County. The roastery also offers a few laptop spots and a shelf of board games for those inclined to stay longer.

Prairie House originally built its drink program around other roasters' coffees before bringing production in-house in 2024. Jade Dinsdale-Cyr leads the roasting program. Sparks describes the sourcing philosophy as a pursuit of "exceptional, approachable and experimental coffees, prioritizing sustainability with a focus on single farms that embrace organic practices," with ongoing partnerships with importers to support producers across multiple seasons.

The roastery is open Mondays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It sits near The Gnarly Cuban's La Ventanita in the College Park warehouse park, north of downtown Orlando.