If you love coffee and enjoy seeking out a great cup, you may want to consider adding these places to your list. They’re not only serving up excellent drinks but are also LGBTQ friendly places to gather and hang out. Below are our top picks of the best coffee shops in the United States.
Archive Coffee & Bar
102 Liberty Street NE, Suite 120, Salem, Oregon
Hands down one of the best coffee shops we’ve ever been to. The drinks and top-notch and the food is excellent as well. The best part? It’s also a bar. But not just any bar. The craft cocktails they offer are excellent. We recommend the Revolver where you pick the spirit and they do the rest.
Camber Coffee
221 W Holly St. Bellingham, Washington
You don’t really need an excuse to visit Bellingham. It’s cool enough on it’s own to warrant a visit. So if you go, be sure to check out Camber. It is soooo good in so many ways. Their coffees are unique, bright, balance and delicious. You must try the Kenya Karumandi AA. On second thought, try as many of them as you can. And order food … we had the cheese plate, the rosemary lamb burger, vegetable sandwich and it was all oh so very good.
Narrative Coffee
2927 Wetmore Ave, Everett, Washington
Down to earth, super friendly baristas and of course, excellent coffee drinks make Narrative Coffee in Everett, Washington worth visiting. The space is really inviting. It has clean lines, rich wood, pretty exposed brick, white tile and succulents and is the kind of place that feels great to be in and of course, take Instagram photos.
Odd’s Cafe
800 Haywood Rd, Ste. A, Asheville, North Carolina
Located in West Asheville, Odd’s Cafe is just a short walk from home for us. They offer Counter Culture coffee and locally baked goods (we almost always get the light roast and an everything bagel.) Though there are several coffee shops to choose from in Asheville, this is our favorite for many reasons: Audrie, the owner, is super friendly and her staff is, too. They have great stuff and serve it up without any pretension. Odd’s is also great at fostering a sense of community – there’s several different spaces for hanging out, community tables for working away from home, and maybe best of all, there is a call for artists to display their work on the shop walls. A new artist is featured each month and is also allowed to host an opening and/or closing event. It doesn’t get much better than that. Oh wait, they just started serving beer, too, so maybe it does. Maybe see you there sometime?
The Rise Coffee Bar
75 Wentworth Street, Charleston, South Carolina
Tucked inside the Restoration Hotel, we discovered this little coffee shop almost by accident. Grab a cup to-go, walk around downtown Charleston and see if you aren’t making your way back for a second cup.
Rival Brothers Coffee Bar
2400 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
There’s three Rival Brother’s Coffee Bar locations in Philadelphia which means you’ll be able to stay caffeinated no matter where you are in the city. If you like clean, minimalist spaces, this is your kind of place. Oh, and their beans are roasted daily!
Starbucks Reserve Roastery
1124 Pike Street, Seattle, Washington
This was Starbuck’s first reserve roastery. It opened in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in 2014 and has been bustling ever since. You can get coffees here that you can’t get anywhere else in the world. We know it’s a chain but we still thought it was really cool to visit and see. Would we pick it over one of the small, local shops as our regular spot? No, but it’s worth a look-see if you’re ever in Seattle.
What do you think about our Best Coffee Shops in the US?
Where are your favorite places to get a great cappuccino or espresso? We understand if you want to keep your local knowledge to yourself. Trust us, we had a hard time deciding whether or not to put our favorites on the list for fear that they would only get more busy. But we also believe that great places deserve recognition and that they’ll continue to be awesome even if more and more people discover them.
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