This café, in a historic landmark building near the University of Michigan campus, offers a menu of espresso and coffee drinks, teas, plant-based milks, Washtenaw Dairy doughnuts, bagels and other pastries. Specialty drinks include a whiskey latte, New Orleans ice coffee, Masala chai and a coconut creme latte. They roast their own beans, source great coffees and make great food and pastry. Their Loring Smart Roast roaster is very sustainable and uses a lot of the newer technology in coffee roasting. It recycles hot air, and so is very eco-friendly because it uses less energy.

            Ann Arbor Coffee Roasting Company owners Manthri Srinath and  Amy McEwen Goller say, “Like wine, the cup characteristics of coffees from the same producers vary from year to year, crop to crop, subject as they are to the vicissitudes of climate, soil conditions and human behavior. We source from growers however, who have long traditions of good custodianship of the land, the crop and their people, not necessarily in that order. And while their coffees may cup differently from year to year, they’re always reliably outstanding. We’re privileged to roast and offer them.”

Location: 324 S. State St., Ann Arbor. For more information, visit AnnArborCoffeeRoasting.com.