For decades, Cleveland’s been hailed as one of the beer brewing meccas of the Midwest (and rightfully so), but now, it seems, folks are also paying attention to another type of home brew: coffee.  

In fact, just this month, Cleveland was named in Travel and Leisure’s list of America’s Best Coffee Cities, and with more, and more, and more and more(!) java joints cropping up on Cleveland corners, it’s not hard to see why.

Via T&L:

As is often the case, Cleveland gets less credit than it deserves: local favorite roaster Phoenix Coffee has been roasting its own for 20 years now, with edgy options such as its own bourbon-barrel-aged coffee beans. Relative newcomer Rising Star Coffee, located in a former firehouse on West 29th Street, focuses on small batches from Brazil, served by way of pour-overs, AeroPress, and siphon.

We’d have a few other local operations to the assessment, but hey, that’s just us.

This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2014.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

2 replies on “Cleveland Named Among Nation’s Best Coffee Cities”

  1. Because nothing says “good idea” like driving hours so you can get a cup of coffee from somewhere in Cleveland. Still, this could be an article that says something stupid and bad about Cleveland like Forbes always tries to do, so I guess I should be grateful.

  2. Some of us work downtown and don’t have to drive for hours to get there. Pour on Euclid serves a great cup of coffee.

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