Flying M Coffee

Flying M Coffee has operated in Idaho since 1992, long enough to have expanded from a single coffeehouse into four distinctly named locations: the original Coffeehouse in downtown Boise on West Idaho Street, a Coffeeshop in Caldwell, a Coffeegarage in Nampa, and Flying M Lakeside on Payette Lake in McCall. Each site pairs house-roasted coffee with scratch-made pastries baked on premises, a combination the company treats as inseparable rather than treating the bakery as a secondary attraction to the coffee program. The McCall location trades specifically on its setting, overlooking Payette Lake rather than sitting on a standard commercial street, which distinguishes it from the three more urban Boise-area shops. Beyond the core coffeehouse format, the company runs regular Craft Markets at its locations and stocks off-beat gift items alongside the coffee and pastry menu, extending the shops toward a broader local-goods retail role. Beans ship through the company's online store for customers outside driving distance of the four physical sites. The business does not publish a founder's name or detail its roasting technique beyond describing the beans as house-roasted, so those specifics remain outside what the site itself discloses.