photo credit: Kathy Tran
White Rhino Coffee has opened a new location at their roastery, located at 1607 Fort Worth Avenue in Oak Cliff.
This latest café, situated within the company’s roastery, will offer customers traditional café offerings, experimental menu items for guests to sample and views of the inner workings of the roastery.
“As always, we’re excited to share our craft drinks with customers, but now we have made it more approachable by educating coffee enthusiasts to the growing, harvesting, and roasting process that spans the globe, makes up a multi-billion dollar industry, and involves hundreds of people from different countries and cultures,” said Chris Parvin, Founder of White Rhino Coffee & White Rhino Coffee Foundation.
The intimate 900-square-foot cafe was designed by Forme Design, a DFW-based design firm. The space captures an elevated industrial feel paying homage to the roastery.
“As the heart of White Rhino’s Roastery, the new cafe highlights the balance between the scientific and artistic process of how White Rhino sources, tests, and roasts their beans,” Sarah Hunter, Designer at Forme Design said. “The design of the space echoes this dichotomy by balancing the hard surfaces of stainless steel and glass with natural woods and burlap.”
White Rhino Coffee exclusively sources specialty-grade coffee to provide guests with a “farm to cup” experience. The company emphasizes traceability, often sourcing beans directly from farmers and producers. By paying a premium for high-quality coffee, White Rhino ensures that farmers are fairly compensated, which contributes to the company’s sustainable practices.
“To us at White Rhino Coffee, it’s not just about the product but the people involved,” Parvin said. “From the legacy farmers around the world who plant, water, grow the beans to those who harvest the beans, wash them and prepare them for roasting; then, to us as roasters and baristas – it’s about creating and selling a unique product that we then use to bring comfort and shelter to our fellow North Texans in need through the White Rhino Coffee Foundation.”
This White Rhino location will frequently host events to raise money for White Rhino Coffee Foundation. Stay tuned for these event details on White Rhino’s Instagram.
Roastery tours, which will begin in November, will offer a behind-the-scenes look at how White Rhino’s small-batch roasting process works. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore how the company customizes each roast to bring out the best flavors in every batch, whether a blend or a single-origin coffee. Roastery tours can be booked here.
White Rhino Coffee’s roastery cafe location is now open Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
