Coffee roasters in Philadelphia
Philly's roasting scene punches way above its rent. Elixr roasts in Center City and has taken home national coffee-competition hardware; Càphê in Kensington is the country's best-known Vietnamese-coffee roaster; Chestnut Hill Coffee has run its own drum roaster for two decades; and Herman's in Pennsport pairs single-origins with a legitimately great corner-store vibe. Most of the list supplies wholesale, which tells you how café-dense this city has become.
Philadelphia is one of the biggest fresh-roast cities in our directory: 26 independent roasters and roaster-cafés across Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with 9,854 customer reviews between them. Elixr Coffee Roasters leads the pack at 4.6★ across 1,764 reviews. 11 of them supply beans wholesale to local cafés and offices. Wherever you land, buy whole bean, check the roast date, and ask what came off the roaster this week — freshness is the whole point of buying local (here's why).
