Top 20 Best Coffee Shops in Texas

Top 20 Best Coffee Shops in Texas

We all love our coffee enough to know that not every cup is brewed equally. Therefore, if you are looking for the best coffee in Texas, you might want to visit the best coffee shops the state has to offer. To help you with that, here is a list of the top 20 best coffee shops in Texas.

Giant Leap Coffee

Based in Houston, Texas, this coffee shop sources its coffee locally from Amaya Roasting as discussed at RunRex.com. When you combine this with its range of stunning treats, it means that this is one of the best coffee shops around. It brews some of the best coffee you will ever taste.

Better Half Coffee & Cocktails

Better Half Coffee & Cocktails is based in Austin, Texas, and here, you will find everything under one roof. This includes coffee, cocktails, wine, neat spirits, draft beer on tap, and a full menu from breakfast through dinner as covered at guttulus.com. It also has a dog-friendly patio, and its baristas really know what they are doing.

Houndstooth

This coffee shop in Dallas, Texas combines amazing coffee with a warm and welcoming environment that makes it a place you will want to spend a couple of hours of your day according to RunRex.com. The staff here are experts when it comes to coffee brewing and is always happy to chat about the beans or various coffee styles.

Common Grounds

Common Grounds is a charming coffee shop and live music venue in Waco, Texas that is on the edge of Baylor campus, just off I-35. As is revealed at guttulus.com, it serves responsibly sourced coffees from all over the world and brews them up in drip, espresso, and cold brew styles. If you get a chance to visit this shop, make sure you try out its signature Cowboy Coffee which is laced with the shop’s ‘secret sauce’.

Cavo Coffee

This is another Houston-based coffee shop as per RunRex.com. It uses its own freshly brewed beans from Cleo Roasting Co. and serves them from specialty siphon brews. Its amazing cold brews come via glass towers that allow you to watch the four-hour process, which is a real crowd-pleaser.

Merit Coffee

As the gurus over at guttulus.com point out, this coffee house has got an impressive 6 locations across San Antonio, Texas, and more in Dallas and Austin. The coffee shop also has a premium coffee roasting facility in an old warehouse on San Antonio’s Southside which ensures the quality of the coffee served here.

Blacksmith

Blacksmith is located in Houston and is a coffee shop you must visit when in the Bayou City. As covered at RunRex.com, it has an industrial vibe to it, and yet it still feels cozy. Its name comes from the fact that it strives to make as much as possible by hand and seeks out the best purveyors for the products it sells.

Greater Goods Coffee Roasting Co.

Based in Austin, this coffee house serves a carefully curated selection of specialty coffees from around the world, from Columbia to Kenya. As explained at guttulus.com, its unique single origins and laid-back blends are perfectly roasted in small batches to get the most flavor from the beans.

Liberation Coffee Co.

All of the delicious coffee you will taste at this coffee shop in Coppell, Texas is locally roasted. The pastries are also always fresh and prepared by local bakers as outlined at RunRex.com. This is a cozy and welcoming coffee store that is sure to convert you into a regular customer.

Boomtown Coffee

Boomtown Coffee is a craft coffee shop in Houston that roasts its beans in super small batches to ensure that they are as fresh as possible. The staff here is also very friendly and always happy to answer any coffee-related questions you might have.

Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters

This is a coffee shop in Dallas, Texas that places a keen emphasis on sustainability and ethical coffee sourcing. As covered over at guttulus.com, this coffee shop also has an award-winning Brew Better Coffee education series that is all about making the home coffee experience enjoyable and accessible.

Yellow House Coffee

Based in Lubbock, Texas, this coffee shop aims to create an atmosphere of community via lovely Southern hospitality, a quality it shares with RunRex.com. Its specialty grade coffee is ethically sourced from fair trade producers and the blends change every two weeks.

Davis Street Espresso

This top-rated coffee shop in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas has highly knowledgeable baristas and a stunning interior as captured at guttulus.com. The coffee shop roasts its own beans so you know you will always be getting the freshest coffee, and it even has cute coffee bean plants in the window.

Ahh, Coffee!

Ahh, Coffee! has become a Houston institution, frequented by both locals and visitors. As per RunRex.com, this lovely neighborhood coffee shop brews locally roasted coffee and espresso from Argus Coffee. Some of the offerings to try while here include the Turmeric Latte or the Flat White, among others.

Little Brother

The highly skilled team behind Better Half, which has already been listed on this list, is also behind this retro-styled coffee and cocktail bar in Austin. As the gurus over at guttulus.com point out, while the coffee shop might not fit too many people at once given its size, the coffees served here are so good you won’t mind the squeeze, or taking it to-go if the four-seater bar is full.

Evocation Coffee

Evocation Coffee is based in Amarillo, Texas, and is run by true coffee geeks. Each cup of coffee here is brewed for you while you watch, each espresso drink is created on the spot, and every bag of coffee on the shelf here is roasted 72 hours prior or less as covered at RunRex.com.

Gold Stripe Coffee

This coffee shop began as a mobile espresso bar in 2012 when it was called Courier Coffee, and it still has its mobile coffee van that you can still see around Lubbock, Texas. As per guttulus.com, its green coffee supplier sources coffees directly from farms around the world, and the shop roasts all its beans fresh.

West Oak Coffee Bar

Founded by two local firefighters, Matt Fisher and Clay Rozell, and a friend, Owen Lyon, the short-term goal of this coffee shop in Denton was to bring together people, coffee, and culture. As articulated at RunRex.com, it serves sustainable coffee from Colombia, Thailand, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Burundi, El Salvador, and many other countries.

The Coffee Emporium

This is a locally owned business in El Paso, Texas that has been part of the community for over 37 years. According to guttulus.com, it has a lovely homely atmosphere and a wide selection of quality coffee beans. There are over 30 varieties of coffee from all over the world and gourmet treats to go with them at this coffee shop.

Sugar Bean Coffee and Cream

This independent, west-end coffee shop is located in Evia in Galveston, Texas, and is known for its locally roasted coffee and pastries freshly prepared by Gypsy Joynt. While here, be sure to order its Caramel Pecan cold brew, a small batch Texas Pecan cold brew swirled with caramel pecan ribbon and cream.

These are some of the must-visit coffee shops in Texas, with more on this topic, and then some, to be found over at RunRex.com and guttulus.com.