My Kingdom For A Horse, Adelaide CBD
My Kingdom For A Horse
Three Adelaide CBD cafes, over ten years in, founded and still run by two women. The milk comes direct from a farm in the Adelaide Hills, which tells you how they think about the rest of it.
Roaster ProfileMy Kingdom For A Horse cafe interior or retail bag on a cafe table
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The roastery
A hospitality business that roasts, rather than a roastery with a cafe attached
Most roasters get into hospitality after the coffee. My Kingdom For A Horse read the other way around. Three cafes in the Adelaide CBD, one on Waymouth Street, one on Pirie Street, one on King William Street, and a restaurant, A Prayer for the Wild at Heart. The Pirie Street room is the big one and can seat up to sixty.
It was founded by two women, Emily Raven and Rachel Mead. Raven brings more than thirty five years in professional cookery. Mead holds a Master of Management from Macquarie University. That is a food background and a business background rather than two coffee backgrounds, and it shows in the way the whole thing is put together.
Ten years of feeding the Adelaide CBD, with the coffee held to the same standard as the kitchen.
The detail that gives them away is the milk. It comes farm direct from Tweedvale in the Adelaide Hills. Nobody sources milk that way by accident, and nobody does it for the coffee alone. It is a food business decision applied to a flat white.
Pirie St dining room or a coffee on the pass mid service
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Approach
How they roast
The shape of the business does most of the work here. The coffee is roasted for cafes they own and pour themselves, every day, in front of the people drinking it. That is a tighter feedback loop than most wholesale roasters ever get, and it tends to produce coffee built to work under milk and under pressure rather than coffee built to win a cupping table.
Retail orders do not go out of a cafe. They leave the Wright Street premises, and they leave quickly: "All orders leave our Wright st premises within 1-2 working days".
My Kingdom For A Horse
Founder-run Adelaide CBD hospitality group with three cafes, a restaurant and its own coffee. Over a decade in, still owned by the two women who started it.
Questions people actually ask
Where is My Kingdom For A Horse coffee roasted?
In Adelaide. The cafes are at 11 Waymouth Street, 185 Pirie Street and 60 King William Street in the CBD, and online orders leave a dispatch premises on Wright Street.
Who owns My Kingdom For A Horse?
It was founded by Emily Raven and Rachel Mead. Raven has more than thirty five years in professional cookery, Mead holds a Master of Management from Macquarie University. They also run a restaurant called A Prayer for the Wild at Heart.
How many My Kingdom For A Horse cafes are there?
Three, all in the Adelaide CBD: Waymouth Street, Pirie Street and King William Street. Pirie Street is the largest and can accommodate up to sixty guests. A Prayer for the Wild at Heart, the restaurant, is theirs as well.
Can I get My Kingdom For A Horse coffee delivered?
Yes. It comes through the Allways rotation, roasted to order and shipped free anywhere in Australia. Pick the subscription that matches how you brew and we grind it for that, or send it whole bean.
Why order My Kingdom For A Horse through Allways instead of going direct?
If this is the only coffee you ever want to drink, go direct and buy it from them. That is the honest answer. Allways is for the opposite kind of drinker: one subscription, a different independent South Australian roaster in each delivery, ground to how you brew, so you meet roasters you would never have got around to trying. My Kingdom For A Horse is one of fifteen.
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