Best Coffee Shops in Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina — updated August 22, 2026
Six Asheville places to get a cup, from a downtown patisserie pouring since 1994 to a West Asheville doughnut counter that shuts its doors at 1 p.m.
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Asheville's coffee counters tend to be attached to something else: a pastry case, a bar, a doughnut window. The list below sticks to places where the coffee is part of the stated business rather than an afterthought, and it spans downtown, West Asheville and Tunnel Road out east. Hours are the thing to check here, since several of these close in the early afternoon.
1. Liberty House Coffee and Café
The most straightforward coffee shop on this list, and the only one Google files under coffee outright. It sits on South Liberty Street, just off the downtown grid, which keeps it out of the heaviest tourist traffic. The rating is 4.7 across 951 reviews, a large enough sample that the score is settled rather than provisional: this is a place that has been consistently well received over a long stretch, not one riding a short run of enthusiasm. If you want a cafe visit with no bakery-line logistics attached, start here.
2. The Times Bar & Coffee Shop
A dual-purpose room at 56 Patton Avenue that runs as both a bar and a coffee shop, which makes it the rare downtown option that works at opposite ends of the day. It holds a 4.8 from 579 reviews, the highest average among the true coffee-first entries here. That review count is respectable without being enormous, so treat the score as strong evidence rather than settled fact. Being on Patton means it draws downtown foot traffic; expect company at peak hours.
3. Old Europe Pastries
A European patisserie and coffee shop that has been at 18 Broadway, in the heart of downtown, since 1994. Three decades in one location is the strongest track record on this list, and the 4.7 rating rests on 2,408 reviews, which is about as proven as an Asheville rating gets. The menu runs to breakfast pastries, quiche and blueberry muffins alongside the coffee, and there is a daily menu posted on the website. The kitchen takes phone orders at (828) 255-5999.
4. Hole Doughnuts
Hot yeast-raised doughnuts and fresh coffee at 168 Haywood Road in West Asheville, with a 4.9 average from 2,482 reviews, the best combination of score and sample size in this guide. Everything is made to order, so plan on a wait. The stated hours are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., closed Tuesdays, and both seating and parking are limited. You can call during business hours to place a pickup order; orders of four dozen or more need an email at least two days ahead. Farm to Home milk and chocolate milk are also served.
5. Filo Pastries & Post 70 Indulgence Bar
East Asheville's entry, at 1155 Tunnel Road, and the one with the longest daily window: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Mornings and afternoons it works as a bakery and coffee house, with pastries, cakes, coffee drinks, teas and tisanes plus breakfast and lunch. Wednesday through Saturday from 5 p.m. it turns into Post 70, serving small plates, flatbreads, cocktails and desserts. The rating is 4.7 from 889 reviews.
6. Flour
A bakery at 40 Wall Street, on the pedestrian-friendly downtown lane, carrying a 4.9 from 581 reviews. That is the second-highest average here, though the evidence behind the listing is thinner than for the others: we have the rating and the address and little else, with no published menu or hours to work from in our research. Included for the strength of the score and the location, a short walk from Malaprop's and the Haywood Street end of downtown. Worth checking hours before making the trip.
What we left off
No chains or closed businesses were dropped. Two places from the earlier version were cut for not matching the premise: Sunny Point Cafe on Haywood Road, which is a breakfast and lunch restaurant serving daily 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and Malaprop's Bookstore on Haywood Street. Both are well rated, Sunny Point at 4.7 from more than 5,000 reviews, but neither is a coffee shop in the sense this guide uses.