![]() Lucy’s Café is a coffee bar, bakery and breakfast/lunch destination offering a spacious street-front patio shaded with bright green umbrellas.A few weeks back while visiting Grand Rapids, I had the awesome opportunity to go to Madcap Coffee and do a roastery tour at their Fulton Street location.That Early Bird in Uptown serves a hearty cup of joe – plus breakfast and lunch – on a shaded patio for protection from the sun.The Sparrows Coffee & Tea & Newsstand offers a selection of outdoor seating at its Uptown shop and an even more expansive patio at its Creston location, inside Kingma’s Market.Switchback Gear Exchange, a combo bike shop-coffee shop, has an outdoor patio equipped with tables & chairs, umbrellas, heaters, dog bowls and portable charging packs.furnishes its beautiful garden setting with tables, chairs, hammocks and geodomes for serene outdoor sipping in any weather. Jam’nBean Coffee Company - Cascade provides summer seating on its landscaped front yard and expansive backyard deck.Madcap Coffee on Fulton Street is located in a renovated auto body shop and it opens its garage doors to extend seating into the outdoors in warm weather.Relax with a cup of coffee, tea or other craft beverage on an outdoor patio at these shops: Wildroast Coffee Co., a specialty coffee shop in a 100-year-old Grandville building.Tillie Ruth’s Coffee & Tea inside the Bridge Street Market, serving locally roasted, fair-trade organic coffee.Stovetop Café in Uptown features coffees freshly roasted two hours down the road in Ann Arbor.Squibb Coffee maintains a Coffee & Wine Bar in Uptown, Rise + Squibb coffee shop + bakery on the West Side and a Coffee Bar in the Grand Rapids Downtown Market.Downtown’s Social Misfits pairs micro-roasted artisanal coffees with craft cocktails and scratch-made waffle dishes.Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea, on the north edge of downtown, is known for real ingredient-focused, globally-influenced beverages.Sip Coffee & Cocktails in Alger Heights – look for the massive zinnias wall mural outside – serves up coffee and espresso drinks, craft cocktails, mocktails, artisanal flatbreads and locally made bagels.Roots Brew Shop, a West Side destination for premium coffee and freshly made food.PaLatté Coffee & Art, a downtown shop offering an ever-changing gallery of local artists’ work along with delectable coffees, teas and pastries.The Mortals, which invites guests to its downtown location to have conversations about mortality over internationally inspired coffee.Morning Ritual, a West Side shop specializing in handcrafted floral and herbal coffee flavors.Lantern Coffee Bar and Lounge, a comfy, convenient downtown favorite in a historic building.The Happy Cat Café, serving up coffee, kittens and purr happiness on the edge of downtown.Common Ground, an Uptown favorite with a menu of locally roasted fair-trade organic coffees plus a wide variety of specialty drinks.Bitter End Coffee House, a 24/7 coffee café on the city’s West Side, just a few blocks from downtown.The Grand Rapids area is also home to an abundance of locally owned coffee shops featuring selections from the companies profiled above and other master roasters. ![]()
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