Coffee Reviews

Every coffee shop I have visited around Nashville. 68 so far. Visit, Avoid, or Dead.

Visit (33)

Worth your time.

Momento Specialty Coffee – EAST Visit

I can’t remember much about the coffee shop but living next to this place or having it below you might be very convenient. But for me, this coffee shop is okay.

Americano Lounge Visit

I visited on a weekend morning, but the place has the specialty of being a hangout place with drinks of all types with live music. A bar with coffee in the morning.

Bagelshop Visit

Burned the hell of my cup of coffee to the point it was undrinkable. The bagel breakfast sandwich was flawless. Just get water.

Bongo Java East Visit

A fun location with board games to play with after going out for a pizza or drinking. The coffee shop is just a human coffee machine, but the location matters more here.

Café Intermezzo - Nashville Visit

The best coffee shop in the state. The Turkish coffee was flawless and an amazing place to bring friends instead of the lonely people welcomed coffee shops.

Caliber Coffee Co. Visit

A nice little coffee shop that makes good meals. The coffee is good and looks out on Lebanon Pike whenever you get a seat in the tiny lobby is nice.

Crema Coffee Roasters – Nashville Visit

Cozy place that goes for the coffee shop charm next to the hell of downtown. Best to go in the morning. The coffee was nice.

Crema Coffee Roasters Takeaway Café Visit

An extremely cozy coffee place that you can visit if you live in the neighborhood. So, like 20 people. Meaning if you work in the area or what a place to visit there are tons of parking on the side roads and short lines inside. The coffee is good.

D’Andrews Visit

Very high-quality bakery. The coffee was good, but their focus is selling great baked goods.

Dawn Cafe + Market Visit

Nice coffee place for people who live in nearby apartments. Food and coffee seem like a food court at a summer camp. About the same quality but well designed in. The coffee was good.

Dose Visit

The employees are educated on how to make a good pour over coffee, and the food is of high quality with ingredients. A very good coffee place in beautiful East Nashville.

Dutch Bros Coffee – Any Visit

It’s a human coffee machine that is like an amusement place with how many drinks they sell with tons of flavors. The coffee was good.

East Park Donuts & Coffee Visit

A place for a great donut that isn’t cookie cutter than a coffee shop.

Farm City Coffee Visit

A theme park style café. The coffee is okay.

Elixr Coffee Roasters Visit

The shopping area around the café is mostly the appeal.

Fido Visit

A great breakfast restaurant with coffee.

Funny Library Coffee Shop Visit

An extremely chill place that would make it worth staying at the hotel compared to other bland coffee shops in the lobby. A great place to visit. The coffee shop is okay.

Honest Coffee Roasters Downtown Visit

The interior design is nice. A busy place. The coffee was good.

Humphreys Street Coffee Shop Visit

The hard wood floors and real furniture inside make the place unique and a normal place to visit and relax when checking your boring emails. The coffee was good.

International Tea and Coffee Company Visit

A place best for the locals in the area and to visit with events happening in the area. The coffee was good.

Killebrew Coffee Visit

A great place to walk in and grab a coffee when walking around the Gulch with the money flowing around the area making the design inside look good. The coffee was good.

La La Land Visit

A theme park coffee shop where the café is the attraction. Good coffee.

Madtown Coffee Visit

I had an amazing pour over coffee here. It felt by chance, but it was still amazing. Sadly, the homeless come in and are annoying asking for water and you need to ask for a key to use the restroom. The coffee was great.

Milk & Honey Gulch Visit

A restaurant that is endlessly busy in the morning. The coffee is a part of the menu. Nothing special.

Osa Coffee Roasters, East Visit

Seems like a real place. No bullshit with colorful walls or checkbox coffee shop attractions. Just coffee and food with a place to sit with the feel of visiting someone’s house. The coffee was good.

Retrograde Coffee Visit

A nice little coffee shop that gives good food and drinks with coffee. A place to chat with a friend is possible or going to do nothing for a weekend and still have a good nice. I’ll have to try the tea next visit.

Sam & Zoe’s Visit

A happy little place. Beats every chain coffee shop with the soul in the design of the place. The coffee was good.

Stay Golden Visit

An extremely nice coffee shop with great food in the middle of nowhere has no right to be in. Who or whatever runs this place has talent but doesn’t want everything to show up to their party. Great coffee and food.

Stompin' Grounds Nashville Visit

For rich business class people downtown, that want high quality normal food like a burger or ice cream. The coffee I got was okay.

Morning Ritual Visit

A fancy coffee shop that sells tons of fun food and drinks. It’s more of a restaurant. The coffee was okay.

The Pink Hermit Visit

A very charming coffee shop that exists apart of the nice hotel made for the middle management class people who want to see a theater show next door. The coffee shop was very coffee.

The Well Coffeehouse Visit

The employees are educated on how to make a good pour over. The coffee shop is good.

Ugly Mugs Coffee and Tea Visit

The first modern coffee shop I started to go to. There exists better but whenever I just want a place to go in East Nashville that ticks all the indie coffee boxes. This is the place I go. The coffee is good.

Avoid (30)

Save your money.

8th & Roast – Midtown Avoid

Chain coffee shop. Harmless with okay coffee.

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii Avoid

Just a coffee chain that wants to spread as far as possible. The taste was blended to appeal to most people. It’s a human coffee machine.

Cafe at Bobby Avoid

A fancy coffee shop for businessman and their wives to enjoy. What about the businesswoman? They go to a better interior design coffee shop. The coffee was okay.

Corner Bakery Café Avoid

Very ugly inside. Cheap sweets and a tourist trap that doesn’t even sell souvenirs. Coffee was awful. A sweat shop bakery.

District Avoid

A harmless coffee shop that serves the nearby workers in a place that looks like a mobile home made of blue bricks. The coffee was good.

Drug Store Coffee Avoid

Looks pleasant inside but the employee was pissed off when I asked for a pour over and burnt the hell out of the coffee or something just went bad because he was uneducated on how to make one. Bad coffee.

E+ROSE Wellness Bodega at 505 Nashville Avoid

Mainly exists to make protein and fruit bowls. Coffee is an afterthought.

Elegy Coffee Avoid

A human coffee machine. Coffee is okay.

Fast Times Avoid

A fancy clothes shop that must exist to be rented out for events. Coffee afterthought.

Flora + Fauna Cafe and Roaster Avoid

A fancy coffee shop in a tiny location. It sells hang bags and shirts. Why would anyone buy these? The owner of this place must have wanted to run a more unique business but wants to make a profit. It’s like a company checked off all the indie coffee shop boxes here but didn’t want to spend money on spacing. The coffee is good.

Frankie Rose Coffee Avoid

Tourist/Businessman human coffee machine place. The coffee was okay.

Grandpa Bar - Coffee & Cocktails Avoid

A unique place to have on your first floor if you live in those 5 over 1 apartments.

Just Love Coffee Cafe - Nashville Marathon Avoid

The brick building is amazing but it’s just a human coffee shop inside with bland food and coffee too. A chain coffee shop.

Momento Specialty Coffee – HERMITAGE Avoid

A nice coffee shop for the working-class joes. Meaning there is tons of parking and a drive through. The coffee was good.

Music City Coffees Avoid

Fun family place. Yum ice cream and coffee. Why did I put this on the list? The ice cream was good.

Nashville Coffees Avoid

A strange place that exists in the outside area of the Opry Mills mall. A place to get a coffee before taking the bus to go gamble in Kentucky.

Neighbors Avoid

This place was meant for hotel guests but somehow let’s random people like me in. The coffee was okay. The inside is nice but it’s still a human coffee machine.

Phat Bites Avoid

The coffee was an afterthought. It’s a restaurant what makes good food. The coffee is okay.

Poindexter Coffee Avoid

A fun colorful lobby. Coffee shops don’t know how to make coffee and burn it and cover the taste with sugar. Whenever I say the coffee is good or okay this is mostly was, I get. This place had that problem and where I discovered this pattern and why people always get sugary drinks. Not because just be black coffee tastes bad but because no one knows how to make a good black cup of coffee. So that’s why people get sugary drinks. They don’t know any better. The coffee was awful.

Primitive Coffee Company Avoid

A real indie place that plays into their strengths of making unique drinks and being different. I got something unique and I enjoyed it. The coffee was great.

Prickly Pear Coffee Co. Avoid

Human coffee machine.

Red Bicycle Coffee & Crepes Avoid

A chain coffee shop that does better than the others. The coffee was good.

Sip Café Avoid

A 50’s dinner turned into an ice cream and coffee shop. So, a working-class place in the East Nashville world. The coffee was okay.

Steadfast Coffee Avoid

A great place to enjoy the weather when it’s nice. So, only when it is sunset or the two weeks beside winter and spring. The coffee was good.

Sump Coffee Avoid

A nice little human coffee machine that exists there for the apartments or offices in that high rise building.

Moonshot coffee bar Avoid

One of the better human coffee machine places.

Trinity Coffee Avoid

A fun little coffee shop apart of the Plaza mariachi theme park. It exists to sell sweet coffee drinks.

Troll House Cottage Avoid

Playing heavily into the uniqueness is a strength. Great to take a kid to drink from a tea set or just to see what design a fairy would decorate their house with. The coffee was okay.

Weak Coffee Avoid

The coffee was an afterthought. This is mainly nelson drum shop. If you want to see some cool drums and have an okay cup of coffee.

White Bison Coffee – Ave S Avoid

Just a chain store on a nice road that charges money for water. Okay coffee its it’s more of a convenience store.

Dead (5)

Gone but not forgotten.

Barista Parlor Germantown Dead

Hanna Bee Coffee Dead

Just Love Coffee Cafe - Music Row Dead

Natura Nashville Café Dead

This was the place the businesswomen went.

Portland Brew East Dead