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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Rome Sentinel and WKTV NewsChannel 2. Updated September 2026.
Utica Coffee Roasting Company · Downtown
The Rome Sentinel's Tennille-Lynn Millo traced what started as a small roasting business on Genesee Street into a national one, and toured the production hub behind the Adirondack Bank Center, set in the old New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad building with its stone gargoyles and steel staircases. Staff brought in a Probat roaster, the second in the country, for tighter control of heat and timing. Order a bag off the roaster select series, or a cup at the Genesee Street cafe.
Full of Beans Coffee Company · West Utica
WKTV's Kirk Tupaj covered the Thorn Street opening, where owner Howie Cohen traces the habit to a mother-in-law who got him drinking good coffee and to a Diedrich roaster he drove to New York City to collect. Green beans arrive from Kenya in 132-pound bags, then are weighed, roasted slowly to develop the sugars, and cooled fast so they stop roasting. His wife Leslie helps run the shop without drinking the stuff. Order a bag roasted that week off the West Utica counter.
Tramontane Cafe · Utica
Rome Sentinel's roundup of Utica coffee spots named Tramontane, the Lincoln Avenue cafe owner Robin Raabe frames as equal parts coffee house and soup-salad-sandwich house, with a New York coffeehouse look and a calendar of poetry, comedy, and other events. 'The Tram' works for a slow cup or a light meal. Order a house coffee alongside a fresh-made sandwich or a bowl of soup, and check what's on the events calendar for the evening.