Kiva Koffeehouse
The Kiva Koffeehouse is a restaurant and inn located in the Canyons of the Escalante within the of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in the United States.
Its kiva-styled building, which has been compared to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite. Bowman's materials for the structure, which he began in 1990 and completed in 1998, feature logs from the high forests of the western United States and sandstone from a quarry on family-owned property nearby.
The area is popular with plein air painters, and the Kiva is a regular feature of the annual Escalante Canyons Art Festival's Everett Ruess Days. The painting which won Best of Show in the oil/acrylics category at the 2006 Everett Ruess Days was painted from Kiva's porch in heavy rain. The Kiva also supports the festival with gifts in kind and has hosted festival poetry slams with performers such as Alex Caldiero.
Since Bradshaw Bowman's death on Christmas Eve in 2000, the Kiva Koffeehouse has been operated by his daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughters. Bowman's daughter said when interviewed by the Deseret Morning News that it is "exactly what her father envisioned: a cool spot for road-weary travelers in which to take respite from the brutal stretch of Highway 12 between Boulder and Escalante."
The Kiva Koffeehouse, with a kitchen featuring the regional cuisine of the Southwestern United States, is open seasonally every year from April through October.