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Specialty coffee cafés in Portland

Roaster cafés from SW 10th Avenue to SE 13th in Sellwood, Coava’s bar on SE Hawthorne and Italian-style espresso at Spella.

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Specialty coffee in Portland is mostly poured by the people who roast it. Coava, Courier, Sterling, Cycle Town, Futura and Fetch all carry the word roaster in their names and run their own cafés, from downtown to SE Bybee Boulevard.

The city's best-known roaster set the pattern early. Stumptown, which opened on SE Division in 1999, won Roast magazine's Roaster of the Year award in 2006 and opened its first cafés in Seattle in November 2007.1 The Fresh Pot, a Hawthorne café founded in 1997, was among its first wholesale customers.2

Local tip: Mount Tabor Roastery on NE Glisan opens only on Saturday, 09:00–14:00; on a weekday, Futura Coffee Roasters a few blocks east at 7201 NE Glisan opens at 07:00.

Where these cafés are: Sellwood & Westmoreland (4), Hawthorne & Division (4), Downtown (4), Northwest & NW 23rd (4), Montavilla & Outer East (3), Buckman & Kerns (3), Brooklyn & Woodstock (2), Central Eastside (2), Pearl District (1), Mississippi & Williams (1), Alberta Arts District (1), Old Town & Chinatown (1), Belmont & Laurelhurst (1).

At a glance

31Cafés listed
14With opening hours
06:00Earliest opening
18:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: Coava Coffee Roasters, from 06:00 (Mon–Fri 06:00–18:00 · Sat–Sun 07:00–18:00).
  • Most listed streets: Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard (2), Northeast Glisan Street (2).
  • Most common features: wi-fi (19%), wheelchair access (13%), outdoor seating (6%).

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Where the roaster cafés are

Downtown, Northwest & NW 23rd, Hawthorne & Division and Sellwood have the most and are level, just ahead of Montavilla. Downtown, Courier Coffee Roasters is at 923 SW Oak Street, open Thursday to Monday 09:00–15:00, and SuperJoy Coffee Lab at 1401 SW Yamhill. In Northwest, Sterling Coffee Roasters is at 518 NW 21st Avenue, Cycle Town Coffee Roasters at 1626 NW Thurman Street and Local Roasting Co. at 1932 NW Lovejoy.

On the east side, Coava's Hawthorne bar at 2631 SE Hawthorne and Cunningham Coffee Roasters at 4411 share the boulevard; Futura Coffee Roasters and Mount Tabor Roastery are a few blocks apart on NE Glisan Street; and in Sellwood, Blue Kangaroo Coffee Roasters at 7901 SE 13th Avenue and Canary Girls Coffee at 8012 are a block apart, with Blue Heart Coffee Roasters on SE 17th and Fetch Coffee Roaster on SE Bybee.

Fetch, at 1540 SE Bybee Boulevard, opens at 07:00 from Monday to Saturday and 08:00 on Sunday, and Blue Kangaroo daily 07:00–16:00.

Case Study and smaller roasters

Case Study Coffee Roasters is owned by Wes Russell and Christine Herman.3 Its first store was on Sandy Boulevard in Rose City Park, its second opened downtown in 2012 and its third on Alberta Street in 2014; Fodor's describes it as small-batch, house-roasted coffee in a variety of formats.3

Along Killingsworth Street, Autumn Coffee Roasting is at 3286 NE Killingsworth and red e café coffee roasters at 1006 N Killingsworth, open daily 07:00–14:00; Abba Coffee Roasters at 525 NW 11th Avenue in the Pearl opens at 07:30 on weekdays.

Espresso, pour-overs and the brew bars

Spella Caffè, which Willamette Week called a microroaster-retailer featuring traditional Italian-style espresso, roasted farm-direct Brazilian beans in a rented garage near its cart around 2009.4 Its café is at 608 SW Alder Street downtown.

For filter coffee, reviewers of Heart Coffee Roasters on East Burnside recommend its Chemex and AeroPress pour-overs, brewed next to the café's black Probat roaster.5 Rocky Butte Espresso Bar at 8505 NE Fremont Street serves from 07:00 to 14:00, Monday to Saturday.

What specialty coffee costs in Portland

Numbeo's October 2026 average for a regular cappuccino in Portland is US$6.06, within a range of US$5 to US$8.6 That is well above the national median Toast recorded for a regular hot coffee in August 2025, US$3.52; cold brew had a national median of US$5.47.7

Sources

  1. Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  2. The Fresh Pot, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  3. Case Study Coffee Roasters, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  4. Spella Caffè, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  5. Heart Coffee Roasters, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  6. Cost of Living in Portland, OR, Numbeo (updated October 26, 2026), accessed October 2026
  7. Report: U.S. Coffee Shop Coffee Prices Are Rising, Daily Coffee News (September 29, 2025, citing Toast), accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Specialty coffee in Portland: questions

Which coffee roasters have their own cafés in Portland?

Coava, Courier, Sterling, Cycle Town, Futura and Fetch all run cafés in Portland. Coava's bar is at 2631 SE Hawthorne Boulevard, Sterling at 518 NW 21st Avenue and Courier at 923 SW Oak Street. In Sellwood, Blue Kangaroo and Canary Girls are a block apart on SE 13th Avenue.

How much does a specialty coffee cost in Portland?

Numbeo's October 2026 average for a regular cappuccino in Portland was US$6.06, in a range of US$5 to US$8. That compares with a national median of US$3.52 for a regular hot coffee and US$5.47 for cold brew in Toast's August 2025 figures. Prices are before any tip.

Where did Case Study Coffee Roasters start in Portland?

Case Study Coffee Roasters started on Sandy Boulevard in Rose City Park, Northeast Portland. The company, owned by Wes Russell and Christine Herman, opened a downtown café in 2012 and one on Alberta Street in 2014.

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