With everything that ’s going on in Cleveland ’s fine dining , drinking , and polish , you might wonder how Clevelanders find the vim to keep up with it all . The response : ournationally recognizedcoffee houses . Here are the city ’s 12 proficient position to host a meeting , solve on your bottom - drawer novel , or impress your brainy - looking OKCupid couple .
Six Shooter Coffee
The newest addition to Cleveland ’s coffee offerings , Six Shooter has an unpretentious interior that is intimate without being halter . Here , revel flavorful , topically laugh at coffee – the Brazilian roast is lusciously weak and perfumed – as well as kombucha on tap . It ’s part of the Waterloo District ( North Collinwood to quondam - school Clevelanders ) , a really ill-scented part of Ithiel Town that ’s spring up around the Beachland Ballroom . Stop down the street to try some Caribbean food at Callaloo Cafe , peruse the galleries at Waterloo Arts , and sieve through phonograph record ( and say hi to Vinyl the cat ) at Music Saves .
The Root Café
The Root Café is one of those places that could be insufferable , but is refreshingly the opposite . It ’s spacious and a lilliputian stinking , with mismatched tables and chairs and art on the lav walls . Local and constituent is n’t just a voguish slogan for Root Café : it makes hearty and imaginative vegetarian and vegan sandwich ( try out the Clevo ! ) that will entice even the most torrid pith - feeder in Greater Cleveland . The coffee ( ours was served in a weirdly pleasing satisfying - ish mug ) comes from Rising Star and duck’s egg - hare , whose shop near Ohio City is set to open as early as next month . you may lend your parents , your grandparents , and your hippest of hipster friends to rout , and they ’ll all find something to like .
Phoenix Coffee
If identification number are how we ’re measuring , then Phoenix is chocolate king in Cleveland . It has four emplacement in the city , each one serving coffee it ’s been blackguard topically for 25 geezerhood . Ohio City ’s location has a patio with a smashing panorama of the neck of the woods ’s historic houses . Coventry ’s has the favorable staff in the city , and is a cracking spot to crack get to the book you just picked up from Mac ’s Backs . Lee ’s is a quieter patch , ideal for a post - date discussion of the arthouse film you control at Cedar Lee . And regardless of your opinion on gluten - destitute mathematical product , try the Salted Double Chocolate Cookies from Uncommon Grains . They just might make you a believer .
Vintage Tea & Coffee
The emphasis at Vintage Tea & Coffee is on tea , but do n’t log Z’s on the umber . The consecrated staff here will tailor your cup or espresso dig ( made from coffee source locally and across the country ) to your taste . A short walking from Cleveland State , Vintage seems to have remained something of a mystery . It ’s a stripped - down , unassuming modern space that ’s great for reading , and serves authentic Taiwanese house of cards tea . The variety of and dedication to tea evident at Vintage is impressive . We ’re not planning a hard switch from chocolate any prison term soon , but if we were , Vintage would be the seat to start .
Rising Star
you may notice Rising Star ’s coffee tree served at a passel of local establishments these days : Blackbird Baking Company , Fire , even Root Cafe and Vintage ( two of the other store on this list ) . However , espresso is the hotshot of the show at its Hingetown location . place a guess like the Biloya and the knowledgeable faculty will dish out it to you on a board with some seltzer water supply – you ’ve got to cleanse that palate , Logos ! – and will gladly tell you about the tang billet and sour profile . It ’s an experience akin to drinking at La Cave du Vin or one of Cleveland ’s other finewine bars . There is a patio that ’s perfect for Cleveland ’s all - too - brief spring and summer months , and there ’s a location in Little Italy to assist jolt you out of your alfredo - induced coma .
LOOP
It ’s knockout to get much cooler than a combining umber shop / record store . Especially if that business happen to be in Tremont , one of Cleveland ’s cool neighborhood . Dave Foran , LOOP ’s owner and roaster , has created some scented knock through experimentation and deviation from the norm . The West Coast Espresso is sunnily fruity and light , and the Fairfield is highly recommended for bleak - coffee tree lovers . LOOP ’s downstairs features a curated music choice with enceinte deals and an emphasis on up - and - coming local artists . The upstairs is a essential for record collector .
Erie Island Coffee Co.
This coffee bean theatre provides something of a , well , island from the bustle of the East Fourth corridor . Its local roasts have received much acclaim , but the baristas are imaginative with lattes , as well . Wait for them to bring back the maple root beer latte when the conditions turn cold again . Grab a seat by the window when you go – the East Fourth location ( within foot of some of the good eating house in Cleveland ) build it an ideal spot for people - watching . Check out the Rocky River fix for an easy time parking .
The Coffee House
One of the coolest things about The Coffee House , a campus favorite for Case Western pupil , is its emplacement . As the name implies , it ’s in an actual house , which lends to the quiet , bookish atmosphere . There ’s a swell variety of tea leaf on the menu , and the Cafe Voltaire pose a potent combination of Ghirardelli chocolate and espresso . The Coffee House is within walk distance of the Cinematheque , the Cleveland Museum of Art , and several other of Cleveland ’s most important cultural locations . It ’s also a Lucy Stone ’s cam stroke from the Barking Spider , one of the full dive bar in Cleveland , so that you could analyse for a few hours before draw your reasonably price pitcher of Great Lakes .
TownHall
It ’s dependable that TownHall ’s Kickstarter Coffee , made from blending coffee with green goddess - fed butter and coconut petroleum , is voguish as sin right now . Even as you read this , your ally who ’s always fancied himself hip is sample to duplicate it in his studio flat kitchen . But conceive us , it earns the plaudit . It come up out suave and creamy , and is especially good if you demand for it with a bolt of vanilla . It yield you a easy and longer - hold out caffein buzz . champion , we ’re riding this hype train to the last stop . ( The shakerato and orange mocha are worth discipline out , as well . )
Deweys
Deweys is a Shaker Square innovation . Its vibration is relaxed and unostentatious , and its crowd is as diverse as Shaker Square itself . Deweys is door aside from Fire and Edwin ’s , two of the city’smost crucial restaurants , and it ’s a poor and scenic walk from there to Loganberry Books , one of the city ’s best independent bookstores . Plus you may get some ice emollient to go with your umber from Chagrin Falls ’ Popcorn Shop , which is a combo that ’s hard to thump .
Pour Cleveland
The stress in the Cleveland coffee aspect – hell , in pretty much every Cleveland panorama – is on local . Pour takes a different tacking . It sources the roaster it answer from all over the world , tack an external all - star topology team of chocolate right here in CLE . You wo n’t find wrangle of sugary flavor syrup or tons of baked goods at Pour , but you will find a featured leaning of coffees , switched out every one to two week , from as far as Norway and Germany . The pour - over method used to make your cup takes surplus time , but was well deserving it for the honey and peach look it brought out in our El Diamente portmanteau word . Stop in Saturdays at noon for coffee cuppings ( the caffeinated eq of a wine taste ) to expatiate your roof of the mouth .
duck-rabbit coffee
Even though the West Side Market , GLBC , and Market Garden are practically around the corner , the part of Columbus Rd thatduck - rabbitinhabits feel intimately undercover ; except that it ’s not – Velvet Tango Room staked out its new neighbor ’s barb years ago , but that ’s hunky-dory . We ’ll just consider this the quality corner of Cleveland drink - devising . As VTR is careful to craft subtle , creative cocktails , duck’s egg - rabbit is roasting its own bean and serving pour - overs and espresso drinks with intense , scientific consideration , bringing out the delicate wine-coloured - alike lineament of coffee . The bill of fare is simple , but who necessitate 15 drinks to prefer from when the five there are perfect?Sign up herefor our daily Cleveland email and be the first to get all the food / drink / fun in town .
Six Shooter Coffee|Courtesy of Dreamhouse Marketing
Phoenix Coffee
Courtesy of Frank Novak/Rising Star Coffee Roasters
Courtesy of Erie Island
Courtesy of Kayla Barnes
Courtesy of Pour Cleveland
