Roasting Plant

Roasting Plant occupies a corner near the RTD ticket counters in the Westin Denver International hotel, right at the airport's transit center on Pena Boulevard. The company opened the Denver location in May 2017, the first Colorado outpost of a New York-based chain founded in 2007 by former Starbucks executive Mike Caswell. The shop runs on a custom system called Javabot, where pneumatic tubes shoot the exact bean dose for your drink overhead from a roasting hopper to a Swiss-built grinder, then brew in under a minute. Beans are roasted on site every few hours, so the cup you order was raw green twenty minutes earlier. The space stays open from five in the morning to ten at night, sized for travelers in either direction. Order the drip if you came to taste a coffee that was roasted while you were checking in. Order an espresso if you want the same Javabot trick in a small cup.