The Best Coffee Shops in Indianapolis

Welcome to the Indianapolis Coffee Guide! You have found the official guide to exploring & discovering the best local coffee shops in Indianapolis. We’ve curated a list of the best coffee shops that are Indy-based, serve great coffee, and care about their communities. The Indianapolis Coffee Guide exists because we love local coffee, and we want you to love it as much as we do.

Hopefully you can find your new favorite coffee shop(s) in our directory below! We post daily over on Instagram: @indianapoliscoffee.

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Amberson Coffee

Fletcher Place and Fountain Square

Cafe, Food, and Pastries

Ascend Coffee

Castleton

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

New

Blue Mind Coffee

Meridian Kessler

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

Bovaconti

Fountain Square

Cafe, Pastries, Dog-Friendly, Patio, and Working Space

Brickhouse Coffee Co

Geist

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Calvin Fletcher's

Fletcher Place and Fountain Square

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Chalet

Butler-Tarkington

Cafe, Alcohol, Food, Pastries, and Open Late

Hybrid

Coat Check Coffee

Downtown

Cafe, Pastries, Dog-Friendly, Patio, and Working Space

Coffeehouse Five

Greenwood

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Coffeehouse Five

Franklin

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Command Coffee

Downtown and Fall Creek

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Open Late, and Working Space

Commissary

Downtown

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

Crema

Downtown

Cafe, Alcohol, Food, Pastries, Open Late, and Working Space

Hybrid

Dry Bones Mud House

Downtown

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Hybrid

Founders Grounds

Speedway

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Foundry

Downtown

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Gaia Cafe & Botanical

Eagle Creek

Cafe and Pastries

Geist Coffee

Fishers and Geist

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Georgia Street Grind

Downtown

Cafe and Pastries

Helm Coffee

Garfield Park

Cafe, Pastries, Dog-Friendly, and Working Space

Hybrid

Hitherto Coffee

Greenfield

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Open Late, and Working Space

Hubbard & Cravens

Broad Ripple

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Hubbard & Cravens

Broad Ripple and Meridian Kessler

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Illumine Coffee

Nora

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

Illumine Coffee Co.

Broad Ripple

Pastries and Working Space

Hybrid

Indie Coffee Roasters

Carmel

Cafe, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Landlocked

Irvington

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Patio

Hybrid

Leviathan Bakehouse

Downtown

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Hybrid

Lincoln Lane

Downtown

Cafe, Pastries, Dog-Friendly, and Working Space

Hybrid

Lulu’s Coffee

Northside

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Mansion Society

Downtown

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Dog-Friendly, and Working Space

The Mocha Nut

Greenwood and Southport

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Monon Coffee Co

Broad Ripple

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

MOTW Carmel

Carmel

Cafe, Pastries, Open Late, and Working Space

New

MOTW Coffee

West Side

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

MOTW Coffee Castleton

Castleton

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Open Late, Patio, and Working Space

MOTW Coffee Fishers

Fishers

Cafe, Pastries, Open Late, Patio, and Working Space

Neidhammer

Downtown

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

Nine Lives Cat Cafe

Fountain Square

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

Noble Coffee & Tea

Noblesville

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Normal Coffee

Garfield Park

Cafe, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Parlor Public House

Downtown

Cafe, Alcohol, Food, Pastries, Open Late, and Working Space

Hybrid

Perk Up Café

Broad Ripple

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Please & Thank You

Downtown

Cafe, Food, and Pastries

New

Porter Books & Bread

Lawrence

Cafe, Alcohol, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

PROVIDER

Downtown

Cafe, Alcohol, Food, Pastries, Open Late, Patio, and Working Space

Prufrock Coffee Co

Broad Ripple

Cafe, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Quills Coffee

Downtown

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

New location!

Rabble Coffee

Irvington and Near Eastside

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Rivet Coffee

Westfield

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Roasted in the Village

Zionsville

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

Rose & Lois

Carmel

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Schoolhouse 7

Fishers

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Silver Linings

Beech Grove

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Strange Brew

Greenwood

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Tea's Me

Downtown

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Hybrid

Tea's Me: Tarkington

Butler-Tarkington

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

Hybrid

The Avenue

Broad Ripple

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

New

The Haverstick

Keystone

Cafe, Pastries, and Working Space

The Spark

Speedway

Cafe, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

The Well

Fishers

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Tinker Coffee

Downtown

Cafe, Food, Pastries, Patio, and Working Space

New

Tinker Coffee

Downtown and Riverside

Cafe, Food, Pastries, and Working Space

Top Out Café

Downtown

Cafe, Alcohol, Food, Pastries, Open Late, Dog-Friendly, and Working Space

Hybrid

Indianapolis Coffee Shops

The Indianapolis Coffee Guide is so much more than just a list of the best local coffee shops in Indianapolis — it is for the community and by the community. It started out as a simple guide to exploring all of the local coffee in Indy’s amazing neighborhoods and quickly transitioned into so much more.

From the trendy & Instagrammable cafes of downtown to the spacious cafes roasters where the real magic happens, we’ve cataloged all of the coffee shops in Indianapolis that are local, support the community, and believe in great specialty coffee.

Which Indianapolis Coffee Shops Get Listed?

The Indianapolis Coffee Guide was originally born because I needed it. I had a hard time (and still do) finding local Indianapolis coffee shops online. The lists that exist (hey, Yelp!) are littered with corporate chains and donut shops, making it hard to weed out the good local coffee shops. These same lists also get bogged down by non-cafes that happen to serve coffee or have ‘coffee’ mentioned in their reviews. What I needed was a curated list of all of the coffee shops in Indianapolis and just those—not a Top 5 list, not an outdated list in a newspaper. I needed a list that cared about the coffee shops and not just about the readership of their content. I needed something evergreen that evolved. And I couldn’t find it because it didn’t exist. The more I asked around about it, the more I realized I wasn’t alone in wanting a resource like this. So what did I do? I made the dang thing.

The Best Coffee in Indianapolis

Like any major city, you can find a lot of coffee in Indianapolis, for better or for worse. I started the Indianapolis Coffee Guide to find the best coffee in Indianapolis, not just any coffee in Indianapolis. Each café and roaster on our directory is hand-selected because they meet our standards of being local and contributing to the community, but also because they serve the best coffee in the city.

Where to find the Best Indianapolis Coffee Shops

Well, this is where to find the best local coffee shops in Indianapolis. You found it. And I am so incredibly thankful you are here. I personally recommend every single coffee shop on this list, and I could (and often do) talk endlessly about them all. They all serve different purposes, different crowds, different atmospheres, and different coffees, and I love that so much. That’s the power of good local coffee.

Thanks for stopping by and exploring & discovering the amazing local coffee scene with us.