Ink! Coffee

SPECIALTY

621 17th Street

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Ink Coffee's 17th Street location sits at 621 17th in downtown Denver, a block from the 16th Street Mall and built for the surrounding tower commute. Beans come from Ink's RiNo roastery, the program two decades into its run between Denver and Aspen and now spanning sixteen locations. The bar runs a tight lineup of espresso, drip, and milk drinks for the morning rush, with a small food selection alongside. The room serves the financial and legal crowd from the surrounding buildings, with regulars who order the same drink every weekday and a steady tourist flow off the mall. Pace is brisk by design, the bar built for volume rather than long pour overs. Order a drip of a current Ink single origin if you came to taste what their RiNo roastery is doing this season. Order a cappuccino if you want the version of 17th Street most of downtown Denver drinks.

About Denver

Denver coffee turned the corner in 2009. Aviano Coffee opened a block off Cherry Creek's shopping drag on Detroit Street, between 2nd and 3rd, and is generally treated as the first third-wave room in the city. Aviano still pours Intelligentsia, roasted in Chicago and shipped weekly, with a single-origin rotation that turns over every few weeks. Queen City Collective Coffee followed in 2017, founded by brothers Scott, Luke, and Eric Byington, and anchors 525 Santa Fe Drive in Baker inside the Town Hall Collaborative space, with a second cafe at 29th and Welton in Five Points next to the light rail stop.

The neighborhood map runs along the Eastside and the rail corridor. RiNo holds the Ink Coffee roastery and the largest cluster of design-forward rooms. LoDo runs the downtown register through the Pigtrain bar inside Denver Union Station's Great Hall at 1701 Wynkoop, which reopened in September 2025 after a six-month renovation. Old South Pearl carries the Sunday farmers market crowd through Steam Espresso Bar at South Pearl and Mexico, where the garage-door windows open to a back garden most of the year.

The roasting bench has thickened steadily. SelvaSur on 1111 Broadway, founded in 2016 by Jose Cristian and Keila Castorena, sources directly from a Chiapas cooperative and from Peruvian highlands. Sweet Bloom out of Lakewood and Boxcar pour through Steam Espresso Bar. The result is a market with serious in-state roasting, a clear Cherry Creek-to-Five Points geography, and a working specialty network across roughly 143 active rooms.