March 27, 2025

Brandon coffee drinkers have a new shop that also serves lunch.

Annie’s Coffee Bar & Roastery opened earlier this month at 721 N. Splitrock Blvd., moving from its Garretson home.

Owner Anne Pedersen had been using the space to roast her coffee beans and “just decided to move it all to one spot.”

While the exterior of the building is plain, inside is a different story.

Pedersen, who started Annie’s in 2004 in Rowena, has remodeled the space with a cozy, rustic vibe, using a rich “coffee bean” brown and burnt orange on the walls, with bright orange accents throughout.

Each room spills into the other, offering different spaces for customers to eat, drink, converse or work.

There are two rooms that can be used for meetings. One holds about eight and the other 10.

Pedersen also plans to add a patio out front.

In addition to the full espresso bar, which features the beans Pedersen roasts, Annie’s serves baked goods for breakfast and sandwiches, wraps and salads for lunch Tuesday through Saturday.

Sandwiches range from a chicken salad croissant and Turkey Cranwich with smoked turkey, gouda and housemade cranberry sauce on cranberry wild rice bread to grilled cheese and the Big Sioux with shredded pork, barbecue sauce, Swiss cheese and fried onions on a toasted hoagie.

Pedersen also makes a daily lunch special and creates a featured drink menu every month.

The coffee shop also is open Friday nights and once a month on Sunday for brunch. Keep an eye on Annie’s Facebook page for the Sunday dates, which vary.

The menu for Friday nights features a specialty flatbread, giant pretzels with chunks of kielbasa and a cup of beer cheese dip nestled in the knots and pretzel sticks with beer cheese dip, along with beer and wine — once a conditional use permit is approved for the location. Those “kid-free” evenings run from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Other hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.