Daniel Moore, co-owner of Tornado Coffee Company in Bossier City, has followed his passion from one “L.A.” to another “LA.” Having spent most of his life in Los Angeles, he moved to northwest Louisiana to open his own café. 

“My mission is to bring specialty coffee to this area,” Moore said. “I know what good coffee tastes like, and I want to offer that to north Louisiana.”

Tornado Coffee Company is a new, vibrant addition to Bossier City’s café scene with an approach focused on quality and adding creativity to your daily coffee ritual. Serving handcrafted coffee, espresso drinks, teas, and a rotating menu of bites all made with quality ingredients and care, Tornado Coffee offers a new spot to fuel up for the workday, grab a snack, or unwind on the weekend.

A native of Monroe, La., Moore spent most of his life in Los Angeles before moving back to the area in 2023. His journey to Bossier started when he began dating his fiancé in 2022 and was “over” LA, hoping to find a new adventure. 

Pulling “brutal” 12-hour days working ride shares in LA every day for two years taught him that he really enjoyed working for himself. When he returned to Louisiana, he had the itch to start his own business. 

“I was a teacher, and when I first moved to the area, I taught guitar and music. I enjoyed that, but I wanted to do something I love, and I love coffee,” Moore said.

Having grown up around a local diner in Monroe, he always had it in the back of his mind to run his own coffee shop. That trend continued as he worked several serving and barista jobs while pursuing a career in the arts, and he would frequent coffee shops to get out of an apartment in LA or a hotel while traveling.

Moore noted that being heavily involved in the arts meant he was no stranger to several serving and barista jobs, and he wanted to bring the coffee shop experience he had in Los Angeles to northwest Louisiana. 

“I got interested in coffee at an early age and I forced myself to like it, so I acquired a taste and began to understand what I like,” said Moore. “My first job in college was at a coffee shop in a bookstore, and I enjoyed the atmosphere with our regulars around the bar who knew each other, and all got along.”

He wanted to foster that same atmosphere at Tornado Coffee, creating a place where people can hang out in a comfortable setting.

“I want us to be that place that I would hunt for — a little hole in the wall where people can chill out with some great, well-crafted coffee,” Moore said.

He is also keeping his love of the arts alive by featuring local art in their café. The focal point of the seating area is a large hand-painted mural. Moore is encouraging other artists to reach out about displaying and selling their work because, as he sees it, coffee and art “have always kind of gone together.”

A resident of Benton, he loves the north Bossier area and Tornado Coffee’s location on the new extension on Swan Lake Road. He said it works for them because as more drivers avoid traffic and congestion on major thoroughfares, more houses are being built with new businesses following. 

“It’s a prime spot to be in with new rooftops going up,” Moore said.

Within a year, he plans to look for other areas to expand. While that could be in East Texas, Caddo Parish, or East Louisiana, he is committed to serving his customers in Bossier. 

“Our whole thing is to brew nice, real, different coffee,” said Moore. “Everyone who has stopped in loves it. I see new people who become our ‘regulars’ every day.”

Address: 3485 Swan Lake Rd, Suite 100

Hours: 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday

8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday