Tampa, Florida

The best coffee in Tampa

Nine Tampa cafés and roasters, from Seminole Heights to Ybor City.

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Tampa's coffee is neighbourhood-driven and improving quickly. Seminole Heights is where the independent roasting energy sits, and Ybor City offers something no other city on this list does — a historic cigar district whose cafés inherited the architecture.

Worth knowing: several strong Tampa rooms pour Miami's Panther Coffee rather than roasting themselves, which is not a mark against them but is worth knowing if you came for local beans.

  1. 1.The Lab Tampa

    Billed as Florida's first collaborative roastery, and the most ambitious coffee project in the city.

  2. 2.Elevation Coffee Roasters

    Consistently at the top of Tampa specialty listings, and the safest single recommendation.

  3. 3.Spaddy's Coffee

    Seminole Heights

    Started as a mobile coffee bar, now a bricks-and-mortar roaster with an outdoor courtyard. The trajectory tells you something about the commitment.

  4. 4.Buddy Brew Coffee

    A long-established local roaster with the strongest search presence of any Tampa coffee brand — usually a sign the locals agree.

  5. 5.Blind Tiger Café

    Ybor City

    Speakeasy-style rooms and a local staple for specialty coffee and tea, with the Ybor location the one to pick.

  6. 6.Cafe Quiquiriqui

    Ybor City

    Inside Hotel Haya, which makes it the most comfortable place in Ybor to sit with a cortado.

  7. 7.Casa Azul

    Mexico City energy applied to a Tampa coffee bar.

  8. 8.Kings Arms Coffee

    A reliable specialty option outside the two headline neighbourhoods.

  9. 9.Leads Coffeehouse

    Rounds out the city's specialty bench.