Roody

But most coffee shops have good tea also--even Starbucks

I like Tazo's line of teas. They make the only green tea I actually enjoy. Stash is pretty good too.

East Hill

That's true about the Starbucks, in fact, that's where I found the Tazo teas first. I like to try different teas wherever I go. At least try a different brand than Lipton!

East Hill

BigDaddyPete

I'm a simple man. The best coffee ever IMHO is Dunkin' Donuts. Unfortunately, I'm 500 miles from one right now, so I order it and brew it in my kitchen. Mmmmmm.....good. I'll go to the local Peet's if I'm out, my 3 year old loves to get a cup of coffee there and watch the trains go by.

maneki_neko

As far as I've seen, we only have Starbucks here. I never cared for coffee, but I like their green tea frappacinos and green tea lates. I also like regular tea, but it has to have either little or no caffeine, due to my acid reflux.

acroy

I have to vote for the Home Coffee Shop

I can make whatever I like
Don't have to worry about parking
free internet
Cheaper than $3/cup
served in my personalized mug
Can be fortified with bailey's etc as the mood strikes me
Always plays my favorite music
The other customers seldom surprise but they never dissapoint either

ivegotabike

I go to one named Adriana's Its the bomb, people are really social and actualy... GASP... talk to strangers. Its a cool place. REALLY good espresso too.

mattm

i would have to pick the espresso maker in my house - service is great/quick, and there's aren't any stoopid hipster-baristas talking to their friends to slow me down.

but when i'm out, it's anything but s-bux.

Machka 

I'm not sure what coffee shops have to do with living car free.

Nevertheless ...

1) I make my coffee at home. I can buy a jar of instant coffee for $2 which will apparently make 100 cups. For me, it will probably make about 60 cups ... I like my coffee strong. Even at 60 cups for $2, that comes to about $0.03 a cup. Compare that with the $1.75 a cup the University charges. Why waste my valuable money on coffee from a shop???

Calculating that out, using the difference between what I pay for a coffee, and what I could pay for a coffee ($1.75 - $0.03 = $1.72) ... if I drink only one coffee a day through the year, I'm saving myself $627.80 a year. That's roughly half the price of a flight to Europe.

2) However, if I were to go to a coffee shop, Tim Hortons would be my favorite: https://www.timhortons.com/ I've organized my brevets so that they start (and sometimes finish) at the local Tims. And I'll go for a coffee and a donut there a few times each year, as a treat.

blue steal

I prefer making my own at home. Custom made, gourmet beans and tastes better than 99% of places, and probably costs me about .15 versus $2-3. Then just put in a thermos and take it with me.

jamesdenver

Java Creek - Cherry Creek Neighborhood of Denver, and "Under the Umbrella" in Congress Park

brunop

bloc 11, somerville, ma.

Kabir424

There really aren't any good coffee places here in Tuscaloosa. There are some places that are pretty good coffee wise but the atmosphere of arrogant frats or empty headed sorority girls really ruins it for me (not saying all frats and sorority girls are like this, just the ones in the coffee shops).

I have to agree with other people though that tea is better than coffee. Because of that I have recommendations for 1 coffee and 1 tea place and none of them are in Tuscaloosa, AL

The Dripolator in Black Mountain, NC. Great people who work there and great atmosphere.

The Tao of Tea in Portland, OR on Belmont St. For some reason their website is down so check back later to see if it works. They make THE best tea in the world and will sell it in bulk to you as well. I have never seen a place like this before(mind you I am from the sticks of Alabama). Check it out if you are in the area.
www.taooftea.com

ajay677

Home. My wife is a former barrista from Charbucks. We buy our beans mail order from a shop called Birds and Beans in Toronto. With the quality beans and my wife's experience in making drinks it's like living in my own coffee shop. I'm always highly caffeinated as a result.

RHoude

In Montreal, the place to go is Caffé ArtJava on Mont-Royal Boulevard in the Plateau area.

Cheers,

Nick99

Shamrocks in Bel Air, MD

They let me bring my bike inside (I am a regular) and let me and my friends hang out there.
They also have live music and an open mic night. One of the few places where I live where there is music in a non-drinking establishment (I don't support drinking establishments if at all possible).
I even borrowed some tools from them one time when my chain guard broke off of my bmx.

It is a pretty cool place between the music and the people hanging out doing art and all the regular crowd. Oh and of course they have good coffee.

dee-vee

I dont like coffee.

jamesdenver

I don't understand that which you speak of or this world you come from...

acorn54

ever since i started to roast my own coffee beans in a popcorn popper, i dislike coffee sold in establishments. i'd rather not drink coffee if i can't have my own fresh roasted coffee beans at home. plus it's a heck of alot cheaper. i pay 3.17 a pound shipping included for my fresh roasted beans, since i no longer roast my own . i tried starbucks but they overroast the beans so you are tasting the roast not the bean.

treekella

Tim Hortons

Allen

Jittery Joes, I know the cats who started it and it Joe's has a cycling team.
https://www.jitteryjoes.com/index.php?section=28

fiend

I'm jealous that Stumptown is a local café for you. I've heard good things about that place.

Here in Vancouver there was a good shop I used to go to called Re-entry but I don't live in that neighbourhood anymore. When I'm nearby, I go to the JJ Bean on Granville Island, otherwise, I just rotate through the selection of generic cafés up here in North Vancouver.

Caffe Artigiano is a safe bet when downtown, but the baristas there are a little like coffee robots. Some baristas genuinely love coffee, others just work in fancy cafés.

I don't go there too often, but I'd be remiss in not giving The Elysian Room a nod.

Um... I like coffee.

gwd

I do instant Safeway or Richfood coffee at home- fast with little cleanup. If I'm out and want a cup I go to 7-Eleven. My first experience with coffee was with Air Force box lunches, those packets of instant are my benchmark standard for what coffee should be.

Roody

I just got back from Higher Grounds in Traverse City. It's located in one of the buildings of the old State Hospital, now being converted to shops, apartments, etc. I drank a good cappucino as I watched them working in the roasting room and bought a bag of Bolivian beans to take home. This place delivers coffee by bike and they're home to the Broke Spoke Bicycle Cooperative, whatever that is.

smurfy

You all are lucky to have cool coffee shops within a short riding distance.

I live next door to a university and there is a Starbucks there (where nobody hangs out and no bike parking) along with Panera, Chipolte, and other chains. The mom-and-pop coffee places and English tea rooms around here are either in strip malls in the 'burbs where the automobile is king and I don't enjoy riding to or 30 miles away in the sticks. The funky "poetry slam" type places are all closed.

Maybe when gasoline gets to $5/gal things might change.