Eleos Coffee House: Coffee, sandwiches and a little Gospel
There are coffeehouses – quiet places to sip a latte, read a magazine, eat a pastry – in almost every neighborhood in the Kansas City metro. In the city’s Historic Northeast, not so much. There are plenty of saloons in this area, which boasts the town’s first upscale suburb, Pendleton Heights, but even the neighborhood’s current gentrification hasn’t lured in a bevy of new coffeehouses and art galleries…yet.
But 18 months ago, a clean-cut former Olathe resident, Dan Smith, moved his wife, Wendy, and four children to the area and renovated a two-story building at 3401 East Independence Avenue (it was formerly a second-hand store) to become Eleos Coffee House, where he roasts coffee, serves coffee and conducts Bible study groups every morning at 10 a.m.
“They’re not in your face about the religion thing,” says actor Ron Megee, who lives a few blocks away. “And the coffee is great.”
