Coffee Roasters

Let’s settle something right now: Houston is a coffee town. Not in the precious, whisper-in-a-minimalist-cube way some cities do it — in the loud, humid, generous, fix-yourself-a-cup-and-stay-a-while way that only a city this big and this hungry could pull off. …

Let’s settle something right now: Jacksonville is a coffee town, and it has been long before anybody slapped “third wave” on a menu. This is a city that sprawls — beach to Riverside, Springfield to Baymeadows — and somehow each …

Let’s settle something right now: San Diego is not just a beach town that happens to drink coffee. It’s a real, card-carrying coffee city — the kind where the person pulling your shot can tell you the farm, the elevation, …

Let’s settle something right up front: Nashville isn’t just hot chicken, honky-tonks, and somebody’s cousin chasing a record deal. This city roasts coffee with the same stubborn pride it brings to a three-minute song — and once you’ve had a …

Let’s settle something right now: Oklahoma City is a coffee town. Not “up-and-coming,” not “surprisingly decent for the Plains” — a genuine, roast-it-themselves, knows-its-farmers coffee town. Somewhere between the cattle and the energy money, OKC quietly grew one of the …

Let’s settle something. Seattle didn’t just stumble into coffee greatness — this city invented the modern coffee obsession, then quietly got bored of the chain on every corner and went and built something better. While the rest of the country …

Let’s settle something right now: Dallas is a coffee town. Not a “we put a drive-thru next to the highway” coffee town — a real one, with roasters who travel to origin, sweat over roast curves, and treat a bag …

Let’s settle something right now: Melbourne doesn’t have a coffee scene. Melbourne is the coffee scene. This is a city where ordering a “regular coffee” will earn you a look, where the corner cafe down a graffiti-soaked laneway is quietly …