Minneapolis, Minnesota

The best coffee in Minneapolis

Seven Minneapolis roasters and cafés across Northeast and Uptown.

7 places

Minneapolis has one of the deepest specialty scenes in the Midwest, with serious in-city roasters rather than cafés importing someone else's beans.

Northeast is the centre of gravity and where the roasteries are. Uptown is the more idiosyncratic end — including one bar that removed the WiFi on purpose.

  1. 1.Dogwood Coffee

    Northeast

    The Northeast café shares space with the roastery, so the roasting programme is the visit. Single origins, espresso and brewed all handled properly.

  2. 2.Spyhouse Coffee Roasters

    Six shops across Minneapolis and St Paul — Uptown, Downtown, Whittier, North Loop and Northeast. The most reliable name in the city.

  3. 3.Five Watt Coffee

    Specialty drinks built with the precision and creativity of a good cocktail bar, over a genuinely good roasting base.

  4. 4.Matchbox Coffee

    Northeast

    Worker-owned, and widely held to make the best cold press in the city.

    Order: the cold press

  5. 5.UP Coffee Roasters

    Northeast

    Roaster-café with the best service in the neighbourhood and a room worth sitting in.

  6. 6.Thesis Coffee

    Uptown

    A slow coffee bar with no WiFi and no plugs. That is the concept, and it produces the most focused drinking experience in the city.

  7. 7.Mosaic Coffee

    Uptown

    Communal by design, with more inventive espresso drinks than most of Uptown.