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Herman's Coffee

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1313 S 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA

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Herman's Coffee sits at 1313 South 3rd Street in Pennsport, a stretch of South Philly where the brownstones run tight and the streets are cobblestone in places. The shop opened in 2017 inside a former auto body shop, and the industrial bones of the original space remain: high ceilings, exposed brick, garage doors that roll up onto the sidewalk in summer. Herman's roasts its own beans on site. The day program is espresso tonics, seasonal lattes, and natural wine by the glass. The After Dark series runs cocktails and natural wine on rotation. Food truck pop-ups bring wood-fired pizza, Japanese onigiri, and Southern menus through the room on different nights. Phillymag has put Herman's in its annual awards more than once. On weekend mornings the space fills with Pennsport regulars who walk over for the espresso tonic. Order an espresso tonic if you came for the drink Herman's pours every morning. Order a glass of natural wine after dark if you want the late side of the program.

About Philadelphia

Philadelphia specialty coffee runs along two timelines at once. The historic bench reaches back to 1985, when Ruth Isaac founded Old City Coffee as a one-person operation at 221 Church Street, then opened the Reading Terminal Market booth at 1200 Filbert Street in 1988. La Colombe followed in 1994 at 1414 South Penn Square on the corner of Broad and Walnut, a block from City Hall, and grew into one of the names that defines American specialty roasting. Anthony's Italian Coffee and Chocolate House at 9th and Christian has held its corner of the Italian Market for four generations, traced back to a Sicilian fisherman named Tommaso Anastasio.

The contemporary wave sits across two neighborhoods. Fishtown anchors the city's working roasting bench through ReAnimator Coffee at the corner of Frankford and Susquehanna, which opened in 2013 three years after the roastery launched, and Vessel Coffee Collective at 2401 Frankford Avenue. Center City holds Elixr Coffee Roasters in a small storefront on South Sydenham Street that has stayed in the same alley footprint since January 2011 while the roasting program built a national reputation. The Elixr competition team finished second at the 2018 United States Barista Championship.

The neighborhood map covers the rest of the city. Pennsport carries Herman's Coffee at 1313 South 3rd Street, opened in 2017 inside a former auto body shop. Queen Village runs through Ox Coffee at 616 South 3rd. Washington Square West holds Habitat Coffee House at 11th and Spruce, which began roasting its own beans in August 2021 and bought the cafe outright in February 2023. Logan Square runs Peddler at 21st and Spring, across from the Franklin Institute.