Memphis has a noteworthy new coffee destination, following the December 2025 opening of Cxffeeblack’s headquarters. Located in the city’s Mitchell Heights neighborhood, the new, multifunctional space marks the culmination of a five-year journey for Cxffeeblack’s founders, Renata Henderson and Bartholomew Jones. The two started out roasting coffee in their home, and began sharing it with their community at their Anti Gentrification Cxffee Club pop-up.
The grand opening of Cxffeeblack’s new headquarters, which kicked off on Dec. 11, 2025, was a multi-day event, with a ribbon-cutting, coffee ceremony, and live music throughout the weekend. Since then, the new space has been well received by the local community. “Sales have been up 345% from the previous pop-up,” Jones says. “It’s been so cool just to see how having a place we can really call our home has meant so much to the community.”
Five Years in the Making
The headquarters—just down the street from the former pop-up location—comprise a coffee shop, roastery, and an education and event space. Cxffeeblack has worked towards moving to a permanent home since 2021, when Henderson and Jones toured the building with a local neighborhood development organization.
“We were doing the pop-up, which was dope,” Jones says. “It was an important piece in our neighbourhood, specifically. And I think the next step was really like, ‘Okay, how do we own land? How do we have a space where we can really have self-determination?’”
The new space took this long to come to fruition in part because Jones and Henderson are always working on several projects at once. Since beginning the planning process for the headquarters, Cxffeeblack has also launched the Barista Exchange Program, filmed a documentary of the founders’ first trip to Africa, started a merch line, sold a T-shirt using the world’s first Black-owned cotton supply chain, and more…