Best Coffee Shops and Roasters in Austin
Austin, Texas — updated August 22, 2026
Eight Austin coffee bars and roasteries, ordered by how convincing the evidence is, from East Side roasters with hundreds of reviews to small rooms still building a record.
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Austin's coffee scene splits roughly along the interstate: the East Side holds most of the roasteries and the counters attached to them, while South First and the Airport Boulevard corridor have absorbed the newer, smaller rooms. This list ranks by how settled each reputation is, not just by the number on the star rating. A 4.7 held up across several hundred reviews carries more weight here than a 4.9 from a hundred, and both are noted plainly.
1. Figure 8 Coffee Purveyors Cafe & Roastery
The strongest combination of rating and volume on this list, and one of the few places here that both roasts and pours in the same building. Figure 8 sits at 1111 Chicon St in East Austin and holds a 4.7 across 792 reviews, which is a large enough sample that the score is unlikely to be a fluke of early enthusiasm. That pairing of café and roastery makes it the obvious first stop for anyone working through Austin coffee methodically rather than casually. There is a website if you want to check the current roster before heading over.
2. Barrett's Coffee
The most-reviewed high scorer in North Austin, with 947 reviews behind a 4.6 at 713 W St Johns Ave. That is close to a thousand people arriving at broadly the same conclusion, which makes Barrett's one of the safest bets in the city for a first visit. The St Johns location puts it well north of the East Side cluster, useful if you are already up near Airport Boulevard and do not want to drive downtown. It keeps its own website, which is worth a look before you go.
3. Flitch Coffee
A 4.7 from 449 reviews, the same rating as Figure 8 on a smaller but still substantial sample. Flitch is at 641 Tillery St, Suite 110, in a stretch of East Austin that has filled in with light-industrial conversions over the past few years. The suite number matters: it is inside a larger building, so look for the unit rather than a standalone storefront. Of the mid-sized-sample shops here, this is the one whose score has held steadiest as the review count climbed.
4. Brew and Brew
The busiest room on the list by review count, with 1,140 reviews and a 4.5 rating. The volume is the point: more than a thousand people have weighed in and the score has stayed above four and a half, which is a harder thing to do than posting a 4.9 in your first year. Brew and Brew is at 500 San Marcos St, Suite 105, on the near East Side within walking distance of downtown. Expect it to be a working room rather than a quiet one, given how many people pass through.
5. Sightseer Coffee Bar
The highest rating on the list at 4.9, though from 110 reviews, so treat it as promising rather than proven. Sightseer is at 1905 S 1st St in South Austin, on a corridor where parking is street-side and tight at peak hours. A score that high with a sample that small usually means a small, well-run counter whose regulars are enthusiastic, and it has not yet been tested by the kind of volume Brew and Brew handles. Worth going out of your way for if you are already south of the river.
6. Kyoko Coffee
Also a 4.9, from 114 reviews, which puts it in the same category as Sightseer: strong early signal, short track record. Kyoko is at 6401 Airport Blvd, in the north-central stretch that has quietly become one of the better coffee corridors in Austin. Pairing it with Barrett's makes for a short two-stop route without crossing town. As with any shop under a couple of hundred reviews, the rating could soften as more people find it, but nothing in the record so far suggests it will.
7. CaPhe.in Coffee
A campus-area option at 3016 Guadalupe St, Suite B175, just north of UT. The 4.3 rating across 253 reviews is respectable but visibly below the top of this list, and the sample is large enough that the number means something. Included here because location counts: if you are near campus and do not want to drive to the East Side, this is the closest thing to a considered choice on that stretch of Guadalupe. Manage expectations accordingly rather than treating it as a destination.
8. Codependent Cocktails + Coffee
The one place here that runs a bar alongside the coffee program, at 301 West Ave, Suite 110, downtown. The 4.1 rating across 721 reviews is the lowest on this list, and with that many reviews the figure is well settled, so it is not a case of a few bad early nights dragging the average down. It earns a spot for the format: a downtown room where you can start on coffee and stay for a cocktail is genuinely rare, and that flexibility is the reason to go rather than the coffee alone.