Where to find coffee shops serving up community

📚 Roebling Books & Coffee (Covington + Newport)

• Book clubs, author talks, poetry readings, you name it. The shop is also deeply invested in advocacy, championing causes from pedestrian and cyclist safety to LGBTQ+ inclusion through events like Queer Soup Nights.

☕ Wyoming Community Coffee (Wyoming)

• Its motto is "Serving Great Coffee, Creating Great Community." Next door, Work+Shop offers coworking space, meeting rooms and community programming.

🎲 Brewd (Downtown)

• Brewd is quickly becoming a downtown gathering spot, hosting Silent Book Club, open mic nights, Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, trivia and other recurring events.

🎭 Sitwell's Coffeehouse: The Sequel (Clifton)

• The longtime neighborhood gathering place reopened under new ownership in 2018 and kept its bohemian vibe. Live music, poetry readings, local art and a stay-awhile atmosphere continue to draw students, artists and neighbors.

❤️ BLOC Coffee Company (East Price Hill)

• The café hosts community events, serves neighborhood groups and reinvests much of its proceeds into mentoring, job placement, recovery support and housing initiatives.

Honorary mention:

📖 Cinsei (Over-the-Rhine)

• Manga, matcha and community. OK, technically not a coffee shop...

Yes, but: The first Black-owned manga café in the country created a place where people gather as much to read manga, watch anime and connect as they do to order a drink.

• Drinking strawberry matcha while talking "Attack on Titan" with the owners is a combination that's hard to beat.