Best Specialty Coffee in Portland
181 specialty coffee mapped across Portland, United States. The Pulled Coffee app pays real cash via PayPal for visiting them. Curated below: shops with the strongest editorials, claimed ownership, and check-in activity. Each one is verified, mapped, and counts toward Pulled's challenges.
1. Coffee By Design (CBD)
Congress Street · Portland · Specialty
Coffee By Design opened on Congress Street in 1994, when downtown Portland was running a 40 percent storefront vacancy rate and a recession was eating Maine. Mary Allen Lindemann and Alan Spear bet on the city anyway. Three decades later the roastery anchors a flagship on Diamond Street with an origins bar pouring drip...
2. Futura Coffee Roasters
1507 North Rosa Parks Way · Portland · Specialty
Futura Coffee Roasters on N Rosa Parks Way in Arbor Lodge sits next to the Rosa Parks MAX station, one of the cafes for a roastery on SE 18th. The brand frames itself around a regenerative approach to specialty coffee, and the Arbor Lodge room runs an earthy, minimalist aesthetic with rough-hewn tables. The cafe operat...
3. Cafe Rosetta
912 North Fremont Street · Portland · Specialty
Cafe Rosetta sits on N Fremont in the Boise neighborhood, an Italian-leaning espresso bar named after the Juliet rose. The bar pulls Heart Roasters out of Portland, runs classic espresso drinks alongside signature focaccia sandwiches, and bakes the focaccia and pastries on site. Mornings move quickly here. Locals walki...
4. Caffè Umbria
303 Northwest 12th Avenue · Portland · Specialty
Caffe Umbria sits at 303 Northwest 12th in Portland's Pearl District, a stretch of converted warehouses where breweries and galleries share the block. The Pearl shop opened in December 2007. The owner is a third-generation Italian coffee roaster, and the menu reads more Perugia than Pacific Northwest. Espresso is pulle...
5. Old Friends Coffee Roasters
2502 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97214, USA · Portland · Specialty
Old Friends Coffee Roasters sits on SE Belmont near 25th, in the inner Southeast stretch that runs from Sunnyside toward Buckman. The shop roasts its own beans in small batch and pours them through a bar that opens at seven on weekdays, eight on weekends. The room leans 1950s schoolhouse, soft music, soft light, the ki...
6. Above Grnd Coffee
1100 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214, USA · Portland · Specialty
Above Grnd sits on the second floor of a sneaker store on SE Grand at Belmont, run by first-generation Somali and Muslim immigrants and known as Portland's first Somali-run cafe. The room is airy and spacious with the kind of late-night hours most specialty shops do not keep. The menu is the actual draw: housemade Soma...
7. PDX Coffee Club
306 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR 97204, USA · Portland · Specialty
PDX Coffee Club sits on SW 1st Avenue in downtown Portland, two blocks from the river. The shop runs as a multi-roaster cafe, which means the bar rotates through coffees from Portland and beyond rather than locking into a single house roast. The downtown location is the original. A second runs out of Hillsdale on SW Ca...
8. Water Avenue Coffee
1300 Southwest 5th Avenue · Portland · Specialty
Water Avenue's downtown shop sits at 1300 Southwest 5th, on the ground floor of a Portland office building two blocks from the river. The company started in 2009 with a vintage French-built Samiac drum roaster and a vision to bring decades of Portland coffee craft directly into one cafe. The flagship is across the rive...
9. Coava Coffee Roasters
2631 Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard · Portland · Specialty
Coava Hawthorne sits on a corner of SE Hawthorne where rainy-day regulars settle into the couch by the fireplace and don't move for hours. Opened in 2010, this was the first Coava cafe, and the espresso program still runs balanced and sweet rather than punchy. The bar offers two pour-over selections and two espresso op...
10. Coava Coffee Roasters
1300 SE Grand Ave a, Portland, OR 97214, USA · Portland · Specialty
Coava Grand Ave is the brew bar attached to Coava's roastery on SE Grand, which means every cup here is steps from where the beans were turned. The bar always pours two hand-poured selections and two espresso-based drinks, and a barista will walk you through the current lineup. The room is concrete, plywood, daylight, ...
11. Heart Coffee
5181 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard · Portland · Specialty
Heart Woodstock sits on SE Woodstock Blvd, the southeast Portland outpost of Wille and Rebekah Yli-Luoma's roastery. Heart roasts light and clean, sourcing from Ethiopia, Kenya, Colombia, and Central America, and the cafe pulls espresso that reads more like fruit than caramel. Pour-over comes Chemex or Aeropress. The r...
12. Cycle Town Coffee Roasters
1626 Northwest Thurman Street · Portland · Specialty
Cycle Town Coffee Roasters on NW Thurman Street runs a small Northwest Portland room built around bicycles and the Share the Road and Share the Coffee motto. The space is tight, the program is in-house, and the regulars cycle in and out from the surrounding Northwest blocks. Hours run weekday mornings through early aft...
13. Cunningham Coffee Roasters
4411 SE Hawthorne Blvd #4419, Portland, OR 97215, USA · Portland · Specialty
Cunningham sits on SE Hawthorne at 44th, in a small tasting room that opened January 1, 2024, run by Sean Cunningham with 25 years in food and retail behind the counter. The roaster in back is electric and runs zero emissions, which matters in this neighborhood and to this owner. Beans come in from ethically sourced lo...
14. Less and More Coffee ii
811 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204, USA · Portland · Specialty
Less and More Coffee on SW 6th Avenue in downtown Portland is the second location founder Ryan opened in 2023, three blocks from the original vintage bus shelter shop and tucked into the lobby of an office building near Pioneer Courthouse Square. The signature drinks lean Chinese and Korean: black sesame lattes, ssuk m...
15. Happy Cup Coffee
1221 Southwest 4th Avenue · Portland · Specialty
Happy Cup runs a small cafe inside Portland City Hall at 1221 SW 4th, the storefront wing of a roastery whose entire crew is built around adults with developmental disabilities. The beans are roasted across town, the cafe staff pulls espresso, steams milk, and runs the breakfast and lunch counter for City Hall employee...
16. Roseline Coffee
1015 Southeast 11th Avenue · Portland · Specialty
Roseline on SE 11th sits across from Kachka in southeast Portland, on a one-way street with free parking and a garage across the way. The roaster has been operating since 2011, and the 11th Avenue room is the cafe arm of the operation. The bar runs Roseline's own coffees through espresso and pour-over, with the rotatin...
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Frequently asked
What is specialty coffee?
Specialty coffee is coffee that scores 80 or higher on the Specialty Coffee Association scale, with a focus on origin transparency, roast craft, and dialed-in extraction. In practice it means the cafe takes the bean, the brew, and the menu seriously.
How is specialty different from a cafe?
Specialty designates coffee that meets a defined quality standard, usually with a single-origin or carefully-blended bean and a trained barista. A cafe is a more general term for any coffee shop, regardless of whether it pours specialty-grade beans.
Where to find specialty coffee in Portland?
The list below covers the best-documented specialty coffee in Portland. Pulled Coffee maps every cafe in the city; install the iOS app to check in and start earning real cash for visits.
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