03/26/2023
Well, good friends, we have some unfortunate news to share. After eight and a half years of serving you out of our Tower Grove East location, we have made the decision to close Kitchen House Coffee. We opened in September 2014 with no prior restaurant experience, and it has been an exhilarating ride! Some of you actually suffered through our early learning curve and stayed with us all this time, while others have found Kitchen House more recently. We have valued you all. And mostly, we have been honored to have had the best staff in the city — a team that of course has changed over time, but always brought to the table expertise that we owners lacked, an energy that kept us going, and a perspective that made us better people.
This decision was both long coming and made suddenly. We would have loved to have invited you to come for a week of last visits, but honestly we just are not staffed to do that right now, and we would not subject you or our team to a less than pleasant final experience with us.
We opened with an idea of fostering community, and hope we have succeeded with that on some level. Thank you for being part of that community and sharing yourselves with us. And don’t worry about those chickens — they have a lovely coop and friends waiting for them just a couple of blocks away!
Paul and David