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A wee coffee cart · Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Kia ora, neighbor

Coffee worthchasing down the block

A roaming espresso cart in Highlands Ranch, built around the coffee we fell for during a few years living in New Zealand. Proper flat whites, long blacks with a backbone, and a good yarn with whoever’s next in line.

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we’re the ones with the surfboard

This week on the road

Find the little cart

We move around Highlands Ranch all week — parks, markets, school lots, the odd trailhead. Here’s where the surfboard is parked.

Wed

Civic Green Park

7:00 – 11:00 am

Thu

Highlands Ranch Farmers Market

8:00 am – 1:00 pm

Sat

Redstone Park — soccer sidelines

8:00 – 11:30 am

Sun

Somewhere new — you pick

Vote on Instagram by Friday

Weather moves us around. Instagram always has the freshest map.

Small menu, done properly

What’s on the cart

Beans roasted down the road, milk from a Colorado dairy, and a few things on the board that we only know about because we spent a few years drinking them 8,000 miles away.

Flat White$5

Two ristretto shots, silky steamed milk, no foam nonsense. The one we came here to make.

Long Black$4

Espresso poured over hot water — bolder than an Americano and prouder of it.

The Fluffykids$2

Warm frothed milk with a dusting of chocolate. What every kid in New Zealand orders while their parents get the real thing.

Hokey Pokey Latte$6

Honeycomb toffee syrup we cook in small batches — a straight nod to New Zealand’s favorite ice cream flavor.

Iced Long Black$5

Over a full cup of ice with an orange twist. Built for a 90° afternoon on the Front Range.

ANZAC Biscuitsbaked local$3

Oats, golden syrup, coconut. Chewy in the middle. A recipe we brought home, baked by a neighbor two streets over.

Every cup here is one you can hand back — here’s how that works.

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The cup situation

Nobody needs another paper cup

We’re a coffee cart, not a landfill delivery service. There are three ways to get your cup here, and two of them you never have to throw away.

50¢ off

Bring your own

Any cup, any size, whatever state it’s in. We knock 50¢ off every single time — no punch card, no app, no keeping track.

$2 back

Borrow a glass

Forgot yours? Take one of our glass cups for a $2 deposit. Bring it back any day, at any stop, and we hand the $2 straight back.

just stay

Hanging about?

Ask for a proper mug. Drink it here, chat to whoever’s next to you, and pop it in the return crate when you’re done. We’ll do the washing.

Every cup that comes back is one that never had to be made. That’s the whole trick.

Our story

We went for two years and came back with a coffee habit

Little Kiwi Co started as a craving we couldn’t shake. A few years living in New Zealand will do that — you get used to tiny cafes on every corner, flat whites pulled properly, and a barista who actually wants to know how your morning is going.

Then we came home to Colorado and couldn’t find it. So we built a little cart, painted a sunset on the side, and started rolling it around Highlands Ranch. Some mornings that’s a market. Some mornings it’s a school pickup line, a trailhead, or a driveway full of neighbors.

We’re not from there, and we’d never pretend to be. We just think they got coffee right, and we’d like Highlands Ranch to have a bit of it too.

As for the name — the kiwi is a small, flightless, stubbornly determined bird that mostly comes out when nobody’s looking. Felt about right for a cart run by two people and one very good espresso machine.

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We picked up “kia ora” over there. It means hello, be well, and thanks for coming — all at once. That’s roughly what we mean when we hand you a cup.

From the cart

Why we do it

A cart is just an excuse to hang about

We’re not trying to be the biggest coffee anything. We’re trying to be the reason a few hundred neighbors end up standing in the same spot on a Thursday morning.

The pay-it-forward board

Buy a cup for whoever comes next. We chalk it up on the board, and someone’s morning gets quietly better.

Fundraiser mornings

Schools, teams, shelters, and the neighbor having a rough year. Tell us the cause and we’ll bring the cart and share the day’s takings.

Room on the counter

Local bakers, jam-makers, and first-time small businesses get a corner of the cart, free. Everyone starts somewhere.

Events & bookings

Got a thing on? We’ll bring the coffee.

Weddings, block parties, office mornings, market stalls, sports days, the parents’ night that badly needs caffeine. The cart is small, tidy, and fits almost anywhere with a flat bit of ground.

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