Best Coffee Shops in Hilo

Hilo coffee runs on Hawaiian beans and a small downtown geography. Paradise Coffee Roasters runs a retail front at 250 Keawe Street, open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 to 2. The hours tell you what kind of operation this is. Paradise has earned more than 100 ratings of 93 to 97 points from Coffee Review since 2002, an average of 94 across more than 150 reviewed lots in the last five years, which makes it one of the most decorated small roasters in the country. Coffee Notes occupies a small storefront at 116 Keawe Street, a few doors off the Kalakaua Park edge of downtown, with espresso, drip, and 100% Hawaiian pour-overs alongside a library wall and a one-dollar record bin.

The neighborhood map is the bayfront and Manono Street. Cafe Boba on Waianuenue Avenue in the old Blane's building is Hilo's first locally owned boba shop, with brewed milk teas, slushies, and a matcha lineup added by regular request. Sweet Cane Cafe at 48 Kamana Street runs out of a high-ceilinged open-air room and grew from a 2011 sugarcane juice business into a full vegetarian kitchen. HA Cafe at 697 Manono Street pulls indigenous Hawaiian ingredients into the bar and the kitchen, with organic coffee, cold-pressed juices, and acai bowls.

Hilo also covers the workday and the drive-through. Hilo Coffee Corner at 101 Aupuni Street runs a 6am-to-4pm bar built for the state office complex and pours 100% Kau coffee on the espresso machine. Just Cruisin Coffee at the corner of Kilauea Avenue and Aupuni Street operates carhops when the line gets deep. The result is a small downtown specialty network of 19 shops, deeply local and Hawaiian-bean focused.

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