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Calder Coffee Roasters · Chicago

Roasted on 46th Street. Poured in five neighborhoods.

We roast twice a week in Back of the Yards and drive it to our cafés the same morning. Pick the one closest to you: the map shows it.
Every café opens by 7 am. Roast days are Tuesday and Friday.
Fresh coffee pouring out of the roaster drum into the cooling tray
Batch 2,114, a Huila from Finca El Mirador, coming out at 9:40 on a Friday.
The roastery

Every bag starts in Back of the Yards.

Our 15-kilo Diedrich lives in a former meatpacking building on 46th Street. Marisol Vega roasts on Tuesdays and Fridays, cups every batch at noon, and anything that tastes flat gets sold to us as staff coffee.
Saturday tours take 45 minutes, end with a tasting of three coffees and cost $14. The room is warm. Wear layers anyway.
Order ahead

Skip the line at three of our cafés.

Order on the site before 10 and it’s on the pickup shelf in about six minutes. Oat milk is free. So is the extra shot, if you ask nicely.
An iced latte on a café table
Iced oat latte
$6.25
A cup of black coffee next to a butter croissant
Drip & a croissant
$7.50
Latte art being poured into a white cup
Cortado
$4.75
Wholesale

Coffee for your café, office or kitchen.

We supply 62 places around Chicago. You get a named roaster, a training day for your staff and a grinder on loan if yours is past saving.
62
cafés, offices and restaurants we roast for
48 hr
from the roaster to your door, inside the city
$11.40
a pound for our house blend, from 20 lb a week

A few places that pour Calder

  • 1801 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60608

    House blend, since 2021

  • 3349 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

    Decaf and the Ethiopian

  • 1601 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201

    Espresso program

Our tent is on the south path, next to the flower stand. Look for the green awning.
Green City Market

Saturdays in Lincoln Park.

A tent, two grinders and a lot of cold brew. We bring the coffees that are too small a lot for the cafés: sometimes 30 bags, sometimes 12.
Saturdays, May to October
7 am to 1 pm, rain or shine
Wednesdays, June to September
7 am to 1 pm, cold brew and beans only
Winter market, November to April
Indoors, first and third Saturday, 8 am to 1 pm
A market stall with jars and a vendor serving a customer
Brew Lab

Classes for the coffee you make at home.

Six people a class, on a weeknight, at our lab in Ravenswood. You go home with a bag of what you brewed.
Pour-over basics
90 minutes · Thursdays at 6:30 pm · $38
Home espresso
2 hours · Tuesdays at 6 pm · $65, bring your machine’s portafilter
Latte art, the first heart
2 hours · every other Sunday at 10 am · $46
A trainer showing a student how to brew pour-over coffee
“The window seat at Andersonville is the best seat on Clark Street. I’ve written two chapters there and drunk maybe four hundred cortados.”
Dana Whitfield · a regular since 2019
Calder Andersonville, 5215 N Clark St. Open 6:30 am to 7 pm.
Careers

We’re hiring at Logan Square and Hyde Park.

$19.50 an hour plus tips (about $6 an hour more on a good week), health insurance after 60 days and a free bag of coffee every Friday. We train you, so no experience needed.
Opening barista, Logan Square
Full time · 6 am to 2:30 pm, four days a week
Weekend barista, Hyde Park
Part time · Saturdays and Sundays, 7 am to 3 pm
A barista handing a takeaway cup across the counter
Ana trained at Hyde Park in 2023. She runs the morning shift there now.
Friends raising iced coffees in front of a coffee truck
Coffee truck

We bring the espresso bar to you.

Weddings, office mornings, film sets, one retirement party that went on till 4. Two baristas, the truck, oat and whole milk, cups and lids.
Morning, 3 hours
Up to 120 drinks · $640
Full day, 7 hours
Up to 300 drinks, a lunch break for the crew · $1,180
Wedding
Espresso and a cold brew bar, cups with your names on them · $1,460
No travel fee within 40 miles of the roastery, about the area on the map.
Visit or write

Six addresses, one inbox.

General
hello@calder.example
(555) 014-3300
Wholesale
wholesale@calder.example
(555) 014-3307
Press
press@calder.example
Mon to Fri