Corner Coffee

06/02/2026

The Best Sip Is Hiding Under the Heat

Why coffee often gets sweeter, clearer, and more interesting after it cools.

Do you ever wonder why coffee nerds love to pour coffee from a carafe into a smaller cup before they drink it? It looks a little dramatic.

And yes, okay, sometimes we do things because they look dramatic.

But most of the time, that little move is not about theater. It is about temperature control. They are trying to get the coffee into a range where they can actually taste it. Not just feel the heat.

That is the weird little paradox of coffee: The cup is usually most exciting when it is fresh and hot. But it is often most interesting after it cools down.

Not cold. Not forgotten-on-the-counter cold.

Just cooler.

Warm.

Maybe even a little lukewarm.

The temperature range most of us have been trained to apologize for might be where the coffee finally starts to make sense.

Corner Coffee Cart at Art-A-Whirl!

Corner Coffee in the Casket Arts Building for Art-A-Whirl 2026 - what a fun weekend! For every day of the event, our team showed up in the lobby of Casket Arts to make over 700 drinks! It was a warm weekend, which we definitely noticed when BOTH of our cart espresso machines overheated. But after just a 15 minute delay and a few fans were brought in, we were able to get right back to business making espresso drinks.

Thankful for the team at Casket Arts for welcoming us back again, for all of the artists and art lovers who made our days so bright by stopping by to say hello, and for our cart team (Rich, Mitch, and Michael) who made it all happen!

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05/09/2026

For the past few years, Corner Coffee has loved to be a part of Art-A-Whirl in Northeast Minneapolis. We’ll be bringing our coffee cart to the lobby of the Casket Arts Building for every day of the event next weekend (May 15-17), so stop by and say hello before you explore all of the incredible open studios in the main building and the carriage house!

05/07/2026

Starting next Monday, May 11th, Corner Coffee Camden will be extending hours and staying open until 5pm! We are excited to welcome in more members of the community and provide a space to land later in the day.

New Hours ➡️
MON-FRI: 7am-5pm
SATURDAY: 8am-5pm
SUNDAY: closed

05/05/2026

New Hours at Camden Start May 11th!

Starting on Monday, May 11th, Corner Coffee Camden will be extending hours and staying open until 5pm going forward! We are excited to welcome in more members of the community and provide a space to land later in the day.

CAMDEN HOURS (starting 5.11.26)
Mon-Fri: 7am-5pm
Sat: 8am-5pm
Sun: CLOSED

How We Choose Coffee

Flavor points us in the right direction.
Story helps us understand the value.

Every so often someone asks us a simple question: “How do you choose your coffee?”

The short answer is: we taste a lot of coffee.

The better answer is: we are trying to hold a few things together that do not always fit neatly.

Flavor. Story. Price. Traceability. Relationships. The people drinking the coffee. The people growing it. The people roasting it. The people serving it across the counter at 7:18 on a Tuesday morning.

There is the theory of what we believe, and then there is the actual practice of making choices.

We hope we are getting better at closing that gap all the time. But I will be the first to say we are not finished. We have not arrived. We are still learning how to aim more clearly and act more faithfully.

That matters because coffee is never just coffee.

Corner Coffee Cart in Casket Arts Building, May 15-17!

For the past several years, Corner Coffee has loved to be a part of the Northeast Minneapolis event called Art-A-Whirl (https://nemaa.org/art-a-whirl/) , the largest open studio tour in the country! From May 15-17, we will have our Coffee Cart set up in the lobby of the main Casket Arts Building (681 17th Ave NE (https://share.google/cS7Mz9KUSdbIhj0vf) ) - stop by on your way to tour the studios of talented artists in the main building and carriage house!

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05/02/2026

That special moment when the morning and afternoon shifts collide 🥰

05/01/2026

Raspberry Cheesecake Matcha | matcha + raspberry syrup + white cocoa + cream cheese foam + berry topping

🍵Can be made hot or iced! Foam contains dairy.

04/30/2026

A new 2026 report recently showed that 85% of coffee drinkers are brewing at home right now, the highest rate in 14 years. This report could cause anyone who works in coffee to panic, but we aren’t panicking.

The neighborhood cafe has never just been a caffeine delivery system. It has always been a place where you can have an accidental conversation with a neighbor, create a familiar face you see every week until you learn their name, and gradually turn your street, your neighborhood, into a place that feels more human.

In a culture where life is increasingly fragmented, remote, individualized, and screen-mediated, the places that create real-world proximity become more valuable, not less.

Read more about our case for the local cafe on our blog!

04/28/2026

One More Study Night!

One more Study Night before the end of the school year! We've loved hosting these events for the last several months. As a coffee shop that normally closes at 3pm, we love getting to welcome in the community later in the day!

Tonight, April 28th, we'll be staying open late one more time in our Northeast location. From 3-9pm all students or teachers get 20% off their purchase! Stop by or hang out, fuel up with our coffee and food options, and enjoy some peaceful coffee shop time late into the night. Great for study groups, solo work, or even a break from homework - board games, anyone?

Location: 2226 Central Avenue NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418

Students & Teachers get 20% off starting at 3pm. Bring your ID! See you there!

Gluten Free Donuts At All 5 Shops!

Corner Coffee is so excited to be adding vanilla & chocolate donuts from Sift Gluten Free (https://siftglutenfree.com/) in all 5 of our coffee shops! These delicious gluten free treats come pre-packaged and ready to go, perfect to go with your morning cup of coffee. Available each day while supplies last.

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