{"id":611321,"date":"2026-04-18T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:42:14","slug":"edmonton-coffee-roaster-listed-among-top-coffee-shops-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611321\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton coffee roaster listed among top coffee shops in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"

After nine years of serving directly sourced coffee to Edmontonians, the owners of the Colombian are getting international recognition, and customers say it\u2019s become a part of their daily routine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe it. I like to consider myself a little bit of a coffee snob, and I have tried almost all the other coffee shops here in Edmonton, and I just got back from Mexico. I would have to agree with it,\u201d said Kat Kaldestad, a customer.<\/p>\n

Kaldestad comes to the Colombian Coffee Bar and Roastery\u2019s Glenora location almost every day since she moved nearby, even when it\u2019s not easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I do. Me and Sadie here,\u201d said Kaldestad while looking at her dog when asked if she still gets coffee when it\u2019s minus-40 Celsius.<\/p>\n

\"\"Coffee at the Colombian Coffee Bar and Roastery. (Darcy Ropchan, CityNews)<\/p>\n

The Colombian was number 15 on the list of the 100 best coffee shops in North, Central America, and the Caribbean. The list was compiled by those in the coffee roasting industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to Canada as a refugee, and up until about nine years ago, I had a construction company,\u201d explained Santiago Lopez, the co-founder of the Colombian Coffee Bar and Roastery.<\/p>\n

Lopez arrived in Canada from Colombia 20 years ago. He says nearly a decade ago, he got a call from his uncle back in Colombia, who had purchased a coffee farm, after seeing the struggles of small coffee farmers, and Lopez agreed to sell his uncle\u2019s coffee here in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

He, along with his wife and business partner Kristin, originally sold coffee at farmers\u2019 markets. They now have six shops in the Edmonton area and another in Saskatoon. For Santiago, the coffee shop is a way to bridge the gap between Edmonton and his native Colombia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really want to showcase the beautiful things about our country, because it\u2019s a beautiful place, but we have very positive things, very hard-working people. Today, we work with over 150 producers, mostly in the southern part. We strive to only work with small producers,\u201d Lopez explained.<\/p>\n

Kristin Panylyk de Lopez, a co-founder of the Colombian Coffee Bar and Roastery, added, \u201cThe fact that we truly direct source our coffee. Coffee quality, barista expertise, and sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Coffee being made at the Colombian Coffee Bar and Roastery. (Darcy Ropchan, CityNews)<\/p>\n

Panylyk de Lopez believes that\u2019s what put their coffee shop on the list this year, adding that while she feels humbled by the award. She and her husband feel more honoured to become a part of Edmonton\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so grateful that they choose us to come here every day, and it is just super humbling that we have people who love what were doing, we really appreciate them,\u201d said Panylyk de Lopez.<\/p>\n

Customers on Friday told CityNews they\u2019re grateful to be able to enjoy some of the best coffee on the continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the vibe in there. It\u2019s really cute. All the staff are really nice, and the coffee is some of the best coffee in Edmonton,\u201d said Kendra Richards, a customer.<\/p>\n

The Colombian made the list out of more than 4,600 coffee shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nine years of serving directly sourced coffee to Edmontonians, the owners of the Colombian are getting international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-611321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}