From workman coffee roasters to infrequent hangout spots, some of a favorite places to squeeze a crater of java in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
Sure, we can squeeze a crater of coffee only about anywhere these days, though there are those times when we crave some-more than only a simple brew. You wish something special: a crater of coffee with some character, served in a fun, comfy environment ideal for laid-back sipping.
Here’s a updated list of 15 good coffee shops in Sarasota and Manatee counties, presented in alphabetical order, with inhabitant bondage excluded.
We chose places that offer juicy coffee, mostly with equally interesting food options, or maybe some beer, booze or even qualification cocktail selections. A integrate of these shops also horde live song acts and one of them will even lease we a room or villa!
Black Gold Coffee Roasters
2385 E. Venice Ave., Venice; 941-488-8242; blackgoldroasters.com
Black Gold Coffee Roasters, that is formed out of a Venice selling core Jacaranda Commons, has a possess storefront in further to provision other internal coffee shops with a beans.
The emporium facilities a accumulation of coffee options, as good as uninformed baked goods, panini sandwiches and some-more food items. Their roasting operation is in-house and manifest within a coffee shop.
Their well-developed coffee is called Black Gold for a reason, that goes doubly so for their iced coffee dubbed “Liquid Crack.”
Breaking Wave Coffee
1310 Main St., Sarasota; breakingwavecoffee.com
One of mixed new coffee emporium arrivals in downtown Sarasota, Breaking Wave Coffee non-stop a doors final year on Main Street, coincidentally only a integrate doors down from OA Coffee Supply.
Breaking Wave offers a accumulation of coffee styles such as espresso, cold decoction and nitro, portion Cat Cloud Coffee from Santa Cruz, California. It also offers a handful of food options, including breakfast sandwiches and pastries such as almond croissants.
The tiny space also has a hip, indie feel to it, featuring a Joy Division wall tapestry among a decor, and song like Vampire Weekend personification in a background.
The B’Towne Coffee Co.
440 Old Main St., Bradenton; 941-745-3100; facebook.com/btownecoffee
The B’Towne Coffee Co. has turn a landmark downtown Bradenton destination, interjection to a executive Old Main Street plcae with shadowy path seating, a accumulation of Joffrey’s coffee brews, as good as iced coffees, several teas and more.
Plus, we can get a Cuban along with other sandwich staples, as good as a crater or play of duck chili or black beans and rice. B’Towne also has a breakfast menu, including a breakfast Cuban done with egg, cheese and ham on Cuban bread, and a good preference of ice cream.
There’s splash and wine, too, with a emporium remaining open until 8 p.m. on weekdays and midnight Fridays and Saturdays (closed Sundays); creation those path seats fun people-watching spots.
Buddy Brew Coffee
1289 N. Palm Ave., Sarasota; 941-356-8940; buddybrew.com
Buddy Brew Coffee, one of Tampa’s biggest exports, has a downtown Sarasota plcae tucked divided on Palm Avenue.
The emporium facilities a tiny indoor section, as good as outward seating. But a genuine reason to revisit is a good coffee, possibly plain or in several espresso forms.
Food includes pastries such as scones and quiches, as good as sandwiches like a Classic with egg, ham and Swiss cheese on Cuban bread, and a Hyde Park with egg, onion, poblano peppers and cheese on ciabatta. And if we wish to move some Buddy Brew home with we (and we do), there’s a shelf with several blends of beans for purchase.
The Clever Cup Coffee Shop
6530 Gateway Ave., Sarasota; 941-806-5909; theclevercup.com
The Clever Cup Coffee Shop non-stop in 2016 to offer coffee to Sarasota’s colorful Gulf Gate neighborhood.
The menu facilities coffee from Venice’s Black Gold Coffee Roasters, as good as pastries from Sarasota’s Canopy Road Market.
Co-owned by valuables engineer Tracy de Chevron Villette, a coffee emporium also customarily showcases valuables and other artwork.
Kahwa Coffee
Various locations; kahwacoffee.com
Another Tampa Bay coffee emporium that’s done a approach down here is Kahwa Coffee, that now has mixed Sarasota-Manatee locations.
Its initial internal emporium non-stop in downtown Sarasota, in a tiny space on Second Street. It has given combined a plcae in Lakewood Ranch with a drive-thru and a mark inside The Mall during University Town Center.
Its plain coffee blends are roasted in Tampa Bay and are flattering inexpensive as well, charity an affordable choice to certain other coffee bondage that will go unnamed. Kahwa also sells a accumulation of pastries, nitro cold decoction and more.
Mama G’s
8431 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota; 941-203-9798; mamagscoffee.com
This family-owned coffee residence and German-style bakery, nestled in a frame mall nearby USF Sarasota-Manatee, offers a ideal pairing of caffeine and carbs to fuel college students and a rest of us.
Mama G’s serves Joffrey’s season coffee along with cappuccinos, lattes and all your other customary coffee options, as good as a slew of smoothies.
But what creates Mama G’s mount out is a baked goods, with uninformed pastries of both a honeyed and delicious variety, including soothing pretzels. It also has a wall of uninformed breads done daily and copiousness of sandwich options if you’re looking for a filling, budget-friendly meal.
OA Coffee Supply
1316 Main St., Sarasota; 941-716-1830; oandacoffee.com
After building a following over a past few years as a mobile transport in downtown Sarasota, OA Coffee Supply — before famous as Out and About Coffee — recently non-stop a storefront plcae on Main Street, open 7 days a week.
OA’s possess Roar coffee fry is accessible for squeeze along with beans from other roasters including Kansas City’s Oddly Correct and Denver’s Sweet Bloom, with some-more general offerings designed soon. The emporium also sells apparatus for coffee-brewing during home.
Current food offerings embody pastries from Sarasota bakeries Rendez-Vous and Buttermilk, and steamed granola from Flex Bar. Breakfast and lunch sandwiches will shortly be combined from a new pub that skeleton to share a space with OA.
Oscura Cafe Bar
540 13th St. W., Bradenton; 941-782-8798; oscuracafe.com
This coffee emporium and splash bar, now undergoing renovations to a kitchen to keep adult with catering demands, has turn a tip downtown Bradenton hangout (especially among millennials and a immature during heart) given opening in 2018.
Oscura facilities a far-reaching accumulation of coffee options, including some intriguing choices like an affogato (espresso poured over vanilla custard.) For food, there’s a Cuban and other sandwiches, soup and salads and a millennial must-have avocado toast.
The cafeteria also serves a accumulation of wines and breeze beers including, fittingly, a few coffee ales. And afterwards there’s a entertainment. Oscura is apropos one of Bradenton’s tip live song venues, engagement internal and inhabitant indie and punk stone acts.
Pastry Art
1512 Main St., Sarasota; 941-955-7545; pastryartbakerycafe.com
If we wish to know what’s going on in downtown Sarasota, stop by a always bustling Pastry Art, possibly inside or during one of a tables outward backing Main Street.
Unlike many of a surrounding dining and celebration destinations, Pastry Art keeps a prices remarkably affordable, that is substantially one reason we see a same internal faces there day after day. For instance, we can get a crater of coffee starting during a tiny $2.10 and it includes a refill. There are 6 varieties to select from brewed daily and we can also sequence lattes, espressos, iced coffees and of course, a pastries that give a cafeteria a name.
Sharing a same owners as a The Main Bar Sandwich Shop on top Main Street that non-stop in 1958, Pastry Art’s menu facilities some of that restaurant’s signature sandwiches, like a famed Italian and a fry beef-and-provolone Aztec with a rarely addictive jalapeno dressing.
Perq Coffee Bar
1821 Hillview St., Sarasota; 941-955-8101; perqcoffeebar.us
If a decoction itself is your top priority when it comes to coffee places, Perq Coffee Bar is a mark for you.
The Southside Village emporium facilities particularly high-end specialty single-origin coffees around several methods including a tradition Slayer espresso machine, Kyoto slow-drip cold brew, and collection filter coffee. Their courtesy to fact does make a cafeteria one of a some-more costly — brews and espresso drinks start during $4 — though we can ambience a difference.
Perq isn’t only about oppulance coffee though; uninformed teas, juices, beer, wine, and mimosas turn out an endless splash menu. Plus, this darling mark serves pastries and an interesting “brekkie” menu of scratch-made avocado toasts, bowls, parfaits and breakfast/lunch sandwiches.
Project Coffee
538 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota; projectcoffee.us
This coffee emporium owned by former Perq worker Ian Steger non-stop in downtown Sarasota’s Burns Court area final year.
Project Coffee focuses on mercantile and environmental sustainability, with a employees receiving a starting salary of $15 an hour and a emporium featuring an all-vegan menu. Coffee options embody espresso, cappuccino and cortado, with divert alternatives available.
Its food menu includes vegan biscuits, avocado toast and carrot and chocolate cakes, and Steger pronounced a emporium skeleton to shortly start charity lunch options as well.
The Reserve
1322 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota; 888-417-3737; thereservesrq.com
If you’re looking for peculiarity coffee, qualification beer, excellent wines, a tiny though rarely curated book store, grill dining, live song and maybe a place to stay, The Reserve has we covered.
Opened in 2017 in a North Trail skill consisting of 3 desirable 1930s-era buildings that once belonged to Charles Ringling, now centered around a pleasant yard ideal for singers and guitar strummers, The Reserve contains a coffee loll and beer/wine bar (The 14th Street Bar) and a North South Restaurant. Currently, breakfast and lunch is served daily from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. from a brunch menu that includes all from shrimp and forage to omelets and eggs benedict to salads and sandwiches.
Looking for a fun getaway? The Reserve has furnished singular rooms, double bedrooms and a villa available.
Shelf Indulgence
2805 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota; 941-260-5326; facebook.com/shelfindulgence.srq
There’s another multiple coffee emporium and bookstore on a North Trail: Shelf Indulgence, that non-stop in 2017.
The friendly mark includes shelves of used books, a coffee bar, and armchairs and other seating for customers. It’s renouned with college students, in walking stretch of Ringling College and only a discerning expostulate from New College or USF Sarasota-Manatee.
There’s a accumulation of coffee and tea options that come from Sarasota’s Latitude 23.5 Coffee Tea. You can also get panini sandwiches, wraps and pastries, with vegan and gluten-free options available.
Tellers
1201 Sixth Ave. W., Bradenton; 941-209-5144; facebook.com/tellersbradentonfl
Tellers has turn a renouned downtown Bradenton mark given opening in 2018, interjection in vast partial to a attention-grabbing plcae in a former Bank of America building that now houses a co-working space Connect Bradenton.
You sequence from a bank teller-style walk-up window, hence a name, and afterwards there’s outward lonesome cruise seating. Its coffee comes from La Colombe in Philadelphia, with several options including nitro cold brew, and there are tea selections as well.
Tellers caters to vegans with dairy-free versions of standard coffee equipment available, as good as grab-n-go apparatus including a considerable house-made “chuna” salad, containing chickpeas and hearts of palm in a vegan mayo and penchant mix.
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