Day: December 23, 2025

2025 Year In Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the US Rockies, Plains and Southwest

From the American Southwest up through the great Rocky Mountains this year, a wide range of new coffee bars opened, embracing spirits of renewal, repair and innovation. While 2025 was…

2025 Year In Review: 10 New West Coast Coffee Shops

Whether to Mexico, Vietnam, Ukraine or outer space, new coffee shops that opened this year up and down the West Coast showed specialty coffee’s power to deepen connections to places…

2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the Midwest

The Midwest showed up in 2025 with new coffee shops blending menu inventiveness and creative programming with earnest and sincere service. The openings in this list include roasters expanding into…

2025 Year In Review: New Commercial Espresso and Brewing Equipment

Communication is key. In commercial cafe equipment, that axiom applies now more than ever as espresso machines and coffee grinders grow increasingly intertwined. This year, multiple major manufacturers unveiled new…

2025 Year In Review: New Professional Coffee Grinders

Commercial coffee grinder makers this year sure gave them something to talk about, and by “them,” we mean the grinders. Brand after brand rolled out new wired and wireless platforms…

2025 Year in Review: Coffee Business News

Underneath the dark cloud of tariffs that hung over the coffee industry for much of the year, the business of specialty coffee carried on at a breakneck pace.  Among the…

Coffee in Cool Places: 2 Hidden Gems in Los Angeles

Warehouse lattes and an espresso bar in the trunk of a car—there’s more to L.A. coffee than meets the eye. BY EMILY JOY MENESESONLINE EDITOR Featured photo courtesy of Getty Images If one thing is […]
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