Empire Coffee is a specialty coffee business in Christchurch. It started in 2016 as a single coffee cart and grew to three carts. It has a permanent site at Riverside Market, which the website says is open from 7.30 am to 6 pm, seven days a week. A coffee roastery trades under the Heron Coffee Roasters brand, and the business also runs events from a custom-built service desk.
The founders started the business to make great coffee easy to get anywhere. Its site at Riverside Market opened in 2019 in what the website calls one of Christchurch's best hospitality venues. For people in the central city who want a good coffee, Riverside Market is the place to find the business.