Savannah, GACoffee

Connect Savannah's Chantel Britton describes the East Broad roaster and cafe as industrial chic, pouring house-roasted craft coffee alongside pastries, and lists the choices as mild, wild or decaf across drip, espresso, flash chilled and latte, plus signature drinks and manual brews. Brandy Simpkins covered the shop's reopening with its founder for the same paper. Order a flash chilled cup to taste what the roast is doing, or take a bag of beans home.

Connect Savannah's Chantel Britton places this cafe on Liberty Street across from the Savannah Civic Center and reports it has been operating since 1909, the location changing over the years while the commitment to pouring art into every cup stayed put. The menu covers the cafe classics alongside some more distinct drinks. Order a latte for the pour, and ask what is roasting if you want something off the standard board that day.

Connect Savannah's Chantel Britton calls this Broughton Street corner a craft coffee shop working in a chill environment, and points espresso drinkers at the Horchata Latte, made with Mexican sweetened milk. Jessica Leigh Lebos reported for the same paper that the letterpress artist behind Foxy Loxy opened this second shop at the end of 2012. Order the Horchata Latte, and note the sister store by the Bull Street library keeps a different menu.

Connect Savannah's Lindy Moody told the story of Matt and Elise Higgins uprooting their lives to return to Savannah and open this bar on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Her piece frames coffee the way it frames food, as the thing that links people to one another, and builds the shop's account around that idea. Order an espresso drink at the counter; the room sits on the boulevard a few blocks west of the downtown squares.

Connect Savannah's Maria Whiteway reported that owners Libby Miller and Gay Fortson named the company after watching friends clink coffee cups around a table, and that it had run as a local wholesale coffee distributor in Savannah since 2013 before opening a retail room on Wilmington Island in February 2016. Order a drip or an espresso at the island counter, and pick up a bag of the wholesale roast on the way out.