Memphis runs on more than barbecue and blues — this city has a genuinely serious coffee scene, spread across 63 addresses from Downtown to DeSoto County.

We checked every single one: current address, current hours where we could confirm them, and the one detail that makes each stop worth the drive. Nothing here is a chain unless we say so .

Last updated September 2026.

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📍 2170 Young Ave, Cooper-Young

Memphis's original Cooper-Young coffeehouse, opened in 1992 by Midtown fixture Tommy Foster and later run by Mary Burns from 1998 until her death in 2019. New owners bought the building, closed it for a full renovation, and reopened it March 15, 2025 — keeping the arts-and-community identity intact and bringing back open-mic nights. Read the backstory here.

📍 195 Madison Ave, Downtown

A chess club founded in 1877 now runs a full-service café inside its landmark building — order a latte, then challenge a stranger to a game. Details here.

📍 525 S Highland St (near U of M) & Shelby Farms Park Visitor Center, 6903 Great View Dr N

Started as a 2016 pop-up at Minglewood Hall, founders Micah Dempsey and Christopher Galbreath built Belltower into a working pottery studio with a full café attached — order coffee, then take a pottery class, or sit in on open mic and trivia nights. A second location inside the Shelby Farms Park Visitor Center (daily 7am–4pm) serves the same rotating lineup of local-roaster beans. Both locations here.

📍 149 Union Ave, inside The Peabody hotel, Downtown · 🕐 Daily 6am–9pm

A grab-and-go espresso bar inside Memphis's grandest hotel lobby — full menu of Americanos, cappuccinos, lattes, mochas and chai, plus daily pastry drops from Hive Bagel. Menu here.

📍 641 S Cooper St, Midtown · 🕐 Mon–Wed 7:30am–3pm, Thu–Sun 7am–6pm

One of Memphis's longest-running independent coffeehouses — 25-plus years in the same Cooper Street storefront, doubling as a rotating local-art gallery with a "secret" gift shop in back. Site here.

📍 150 Madison Ave, Downtown

A Downtown coffee-and-bakery anchor known for breakfast sandwiches like the Turkey Bacon Crunch — a regular stop on Downtown Dining Week. Details here.

📍 240 Madison Ave Ste 103, Downtown

A mission-driven shop built around putting power in the hands of coffee laborers — and every Saturday, 9am–2:30pm, it hosts Rigby Roastery's pop-up, where owner Naiman Rigby imports direct-trade exotic coffees to "democratize luxury goods" for everyday Memphians. Details here.

📍 387 S Main St, inside Stock & Belle, Downtown

Founded by an actual doctor — Albert Bean — who trained at coffee schools in Portland and Vermont after visiting a bean farm in Boquete, Panama. Expect a data-driven approach to roasting inside a South Main boutique. Site here.

📍 505 S Main St, Downtown · 🕐 Mon–Tue 7am–2pm, Wed–Fri 7am–7pm, Sat 8am–2pm, closed Sun

Opened in the former Bluff City Coffee space, owner Wade Hartsfield named the shop for 23 years of Sunday visits — with roughly 30 cousins — to his grandparents' Tipton County farm. It's a hybrid coffee-and-cocktails concept; try the praline latte. Site here.

📍 7 N Main St, inside Sam's Main Street Eatery, Downtown

A father-son coffee bar: Abdul Rahman Mustapha opened Humble Drip in summer 2024 inside his father Mustapha's restaurant, with pastries made by Abdul's mother and tea retailed from Orange Mound's My Cup of Tea. Details here.

📍 477 S Main St, inside ARRIVE Memphis, Downtown · 🕐 Daily 7am–4pm

A full sourdough bakery operation with limited indoor seating and outdoor tables, plus weekly community events. Site here.

📍 164 Union Ave, inside Canopy by Hilton, Downtown

Locally owned specialty coffee inside a Downtown hotel lobby — order a latte before your meeting or your museum walk. Details here.

📍 276 S Front St Ste 105, Downtown

A seed-to-plate bagel and deli shop with a full coffee bar built in — order a scratch-made bagel and a latte in the same line. Site here.

📍 122 Gayoso Ave, Downtown & 4750 Navy Rd, Millington

The original Millington location opened April 2023 with the tagline "breakfast all day, great coffee"; the Downtown outpost soft-opened November 2025 through the Downtown Memphis Commission's rent-covering Table Ready program. Site here.

📍 732 Madison Ave Ste 101, Downtown · 1350 Concourse Ave Ste 167, Crosstown Concourse · 395 S Highland St Ste 126, University District

New Orleans's craft roaster runs three Memphis-area cafés — including a full on-site roastery inside Crosstown Concourse's Central Atrium — making it one of the easiest ways to get fresh-roasted French Truck beans anywhere in the metro. Locations here.

📍 109 N Main St, Downtown

A well-reviewed Main Street coffee bar with 150-plus Yelp reviews and a steady local following. Details here.

📍 358 N Main St, Pinch District

High school sweethearts Hayes and Amy restored this historic Pinch District building brick by brick — they live above the shop — and built a following around their signature coffee soda. Details here.

📍 95 N Cooper St (a backyard hut at Curio Commons), Cooper-Young

One of 2026's quirkiest new openings — despite the name, co-owners Chuy Velazco and Ally Buenfil serve caffeine only, no cannabis, out of a small hut behind the Curio Commons creative hub.

📍 Inside the Memphis Zoo, 2000 Prentiss Pl, Midtown

A coffee stop built into the Zoo grounds just past the main entrance — done up like a Moroccan treehouse, with coffee, tea, muffins and cookies for a caffeine break between the pandas and the primates.

📍 1330 Peabody Ave, Midtown

A Midtown tea-and-coffee house near East Parkway. Site here.

📍 2625 Broad Ave · 🕐 Mon–Fri 7am–6pm, Sat–Sun 8am–2pm

A Broad Avenue Arts District anchor for about a decade — third-wave specialty coffee that dropped its retail/gift-shop side in late 2025 to focus solely on the coffee. Site here.

📍 583 Scott St, Binghampton · 🕐 Mon–Thu 8am–10pm, Fri 8am–9pm, Sat 8am–10pm, Sun 12pm–10pm

Founders Mark Horrocks and Matthew Wrage dismantled a closing Atlanta skatepark and trucked it to Memphis on five trailers; the second-floor coffee lounge doubles as a live-edge woodwork showroom and hosts DJs and monthly punk, ska, reggae and hip-hop shows. Details here.

📍 510 Tillman St Suite 110, Binghampton

A community-mission café tucked inside a Tillman Street shopping center, serving French Truck coffee alongside its food program. Site here.

📍 3386 Bowen Ave, Mitchell Heights · 🕐 Mon–Fri 7:30am–4pm, Sat–Sun 9am–4pm

Founded in 2019 by husband-and-wife team Bartholomew Jones and Renata Henderson, Cxffeeblack sources its own Ethiopia-to-Memphis all-Black coffee supply chain. The brand opened this new flagship — a newly restored, 1,600-square-foot building that took more than four years to build out — in December 2025, replacing its original Anti-Gentrification Cxffee Club space. Site here.

📍 4514 Summer Ave Suite 1 · 🕐 Daily 7am–8pm

Yemeni beans from the Haraz, Bani Matar and Yafe highlands, hand-picked and drum-roasted on site, carrying a four-generation family cardamom tradition. Order the manakeesh from the stone oven or the Dubai chocolate crêpe alongside your coffee. Site here.

📍 3826 Park Ave, near U of M · 🕐 Mon–Thu 8am–9pm, Fri–Sun 8am–10pm

Memphis's newest coffee shop, opened September 1, 2026, by co-owners Ahmed Alshadod and Saifodeen Andesh — named for Alshadod's grandmother, Zahraa Jalloub, and saffron's place in the family's cooking. Try the Saffron White Mocha. Read more here.

📍 4688 Walnut Grove Rd, on the Second Baptist Church campus · 🕐 Mon 7:30am–1:30pm, Tue–Fri 7:30am–5:30pm

Run by Sweet LaLa's Bakery owner Lauren Young, the café grew out of conversations at the campus's 5,000-visitor Pumpkin Patch event and partners with the Baptist Center for Good Grief. Vinculo Coffee and Orange Mound's My Cup of Tea run the espresso bar. Site here.

📍 6150 Poplar Ave #118

A bakery with an espresso bar, run by the same owner (Lauren Young) as Second Helpings Café above. Site here.

📍 6000 Briarcrest Ave, inside Mission Church

Opened in 2017 under what was then Highpoint Church (now Mission Church), profits fund the church's local and global mission partnerships — reviewers single out the lattes. Details here.

📍 4339 Park Ave, inside Dixon Gallery & Gardens

A café and coffee bar on the grounds of the Dixon art museum — order a latte, then wander the gardens. Hosts brunch events and Food Truck Fridays. Details here.

📍 4610 Poplar Ave & Memphis International Airport

Formerly Ugly Mug Coffee at the same Poplar Avenue address, Ramblin' Joe's is a third-generation Memphis coffee company. A sixth café is on the way in Germantown (1227 S Germantown Rd, a former Simmons Bank branch) — Google lists it "temporarily closed" right now because it's pre-opening, with a grand opening targeted for October 2026. Site here.

📍 1730 S Germantown Rd Ste 101 & inside Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital, 7691 Poplar Ave

Started as a food truck by owners Taylor and Hannah Whiddon before opening the original storefront; the hospital location is a grab-and-go outpost about a third the size, open to visitors and staff alike. Site here.

📍 3060 Forest Hill Irene Rd

Built on the site of the original Forest Hill Baptist Church, founder Kenneth Schweighofer opened it in part because his family — newly moved from Manhattan — couldn't find a Memphis-area coffee shop open on Sundays. It is. Site here.

📍 9155 Poplar Ave Ste 16 · 🕐 Daily 11am–9pm

A Korean-run cafe and bakery inside the Saddle Creek shopping area.

📍 2059 Houston Levee Rd #116 · 🕐 Sun 12–9pm, Mon–Thu 6:30am–9pm, Fri 6:30am–10pm, Sat 8am–10pm

Morning coffeehouse by day, ice cream shop by afternoon — flavors carry local-reference names, and the waffle cones are made in-house. Site here.

📍 1140 N Germantown Pkwy Ste 115 · 🕐 Sun–Thu 8am–9pm, Fri–Sat 8am–11pm

A late-night option in Cordova on weekends — open past 9pm every night of the week. Site here.

📍 2200 N Germantown Pkwy Ste 7

Started as a Memphis food trailer before opening this Cordova brick-and-mortar — specialty coffee alongside empanadas and pastries.

📍 1105 N Houston Levee Rd Ste 101

Cordova's Yemeni coffee shop, bringing Yemen's coffee heritage to a spot near Houston Levee Road. Site here.

📍 1890 N Germantown Pkwy Ste 99

A Taiwanese-style bakery and bubble tea shop with a serious coffee program alongside the milk tea. Site here.

📍 9580 Macon Rd

A genuine coffee program (not just a breakfast-diner afterthought) in Cordova, with a loyal local following.

📍 914 Carrington Oak Ln S, Collierville & 9752 Market Green Pl N Unit 101, Lakeland

The Collierville original plus a Lakeland Town Square sister shop, known for fresh cinnamon rolls, muffins and made-to-order breakfast sandwiches. Site here.

📍 2130 W Poplar Ave Ste 107 · 🕐 Mon–Sat 7am–3pm, closed Sun

A locally roasted coffee shop with house-made pastries and an enclosed kids' play area — bring the whole family. Site here.

📍 103 N Center St, Town Square · 🕐 Mon–Sat 7am–5pm, closed Sun

Serving Collierville's historic Town Square since 2008, pouring J. Brooks Coffee alongside Zio Matto Italian gelato. Site here.

📍 875 W Poplar Ave

Owner William Bryce owns the coffee-roasting company that supplies the shop's beans — a rare vertically integrated setup for the suburbs. Opened during the pandemic in 2020 as curbside-only and built a following from there. Read more here.

📍 8906 US-64, Lakeland · 🕐 Mon–Fri 5am–7pm, Sat 6am–7pm

An Arkansas-rooted coffee company’s first Mid-South drive-thru, opened September 2024 as Lakeland’s fifth coffee shop — locally owned and run by franchisee-operators Jonathan and Anna-Marie Penn. Details here.

Lakeland is also home to a Carrington Oaks Coffeehouse location — see Collierville above.

📍 5675 Stage Rd, Bartlett · 🕐 Mon–Sat 7am–3:45pm, Sun 8am–2:45pm

Pharmacy-themed branding with a full espresso menu, Southern biscuits and gluten-free options on the pastry case. Order here.

📍 2780 Bartlett Blvd

A dual concept — brick-and-mortar café plus a food truck — pouring "quality international coffees" and known for its beignets. Site here.

📍 2821 Bartlett Rd, Bartlett

Founder Omar Yusuf grew up on his family’s coffee farm in Harar, eastern Ethiopia — Baaloo roasts beans sourced directly through that farm alongside selections from other African, Central and South American producers. Site here.

📍 6240 Chester St, Arlington

Co-owner Leilani Evans ran it as a mobile and wholesale bakery before opening this Arlington storefront — the shop is best known for its cronuts, a rare find in the Memphis market, and partners with Downtown roaster Dr. Bean’s for seasonal lattes. Read more here.

📍 8817 Chaffee Rd, Arlington · 🕐 Mon–Fri 7am–2pm, Sat 8am–12pm, closed Sun

A combined coffee bar and in-house roastery started with just $100 and a mission to support small brands and local entrepreneurs — customers call it a cozy, tucked-away oasis. Site here.

📍 4750 Navy Rd, Millington

The original location of this breakfast-all-day, great-coffee spot, open since April 2023 — it liked Millington so much it opened a second location Downtown in 2025 (see Downtown, South Main & the Pinch District above). Site here.

📍 7969 B St, Millington

A family-run cookie shop with a full coffee and espresso bar alongside its signature "cookie stick" and royal icing — named for founders Jack and McKenzie Dwyer's three kids. 10% off daily for military, first responders, teachers and health care workers. Instagram here.

📍 8323 US-51, Millington (inside Abandoned Antiques)

A coffee counter tucked inside Millington's Abandoned Antiques mall — order a drink and browse the antique booths while you sip. Facebook here.

📍 5627 Getwell Rd, Southaven · 🕐 Mon–Thu 6am–6pm, Fri 6am–8pm, Sat 7am–8pm, closed Sun

DeSoto County's specialty coffee roaster, pouring beans from local roaster J. Brooks and tea from Memphis's My Cup of Tea. Proceeds support human-trafficking survivors and rotate monthly to local nonprofits, and the shop hosts live music. Site here.

📍 9120 Pigeon Roost Rd, Olive Branch · 🕐 Mon–Fri 6am–3pm, Sat 8am–3pm, Sun 10am–2pm

Housed in a former lumber-yard office in Old Towne Olive Branch, serving specialty coffee drinks alongside chocolate chess pie and bread pudding. Site here.

📍 2867 May Blvd, Southaven · 🕐 Mon–Fri 6:30am–6pm, Sat 7am–6pm, Sun 8am–5pm

A genuine crop-to-cup program sourcing micro-lots from three family-owned farms, plus American-grown Yaupon Holly tea — the most serious single-origin coffee credentials in the county. Site here.

📍 2425 East Street, Hernando · 🕐 Mon–Fri 6am–2pm, Sat 6am–12pm, closed Sun

Hernando's newest coffee shop, opened August 8, 2026, with an espresso menu built around named seasonal drinks like the Apple Crumble Latte. Site here.

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