Jason Burton taps into a pour economy in his new beverage-geek palace
Kansas City’s newest spot to get a cup of coffee isn’t really a coffee shop. In spite of its name, it isn’t exactly a culinary school or a test kitchen, either. The Lab (3185 Terrace Street) is likely to be all of those things at once. The beverage marketing firm wants to turn its office into a community hub with pour-over coffee service and Soda Vie from a tap starting this week.
“It’s a big beverage-geeky palace,” founder Jason Burton says.
Burton moved his two-year-old company into the building on Terrace Street in October, after forming a new partnership with About the Coffee, a coffee-services company owned by Marty and Tooti Roe that has a mechanical repair shop in back — you’re as likely to see a Volkswagen Beetle in the process of being restored as you are a coffee roaster — and clients in three states.
