Coworking with Coffee and Tea Across the US

Foster and Trellis both run a real coffee bar inside the space. Foster's sits in the common area, serves espresso drinks and is staffed by a team regulars visit daily. Trellis is a coworking space and cafe in SoMa, with an on-site coffee bar and lattes that get genuine praise. RingSpaces keeps it free and simple: complimentary coffee and espresso on-site, plus a podcast studio if you want to record. Think Lounge goes further with a barista and a food menu, and Hatchways includes complimentary coffee and water with computer-based ordering so food and coffee come to your table. Area 34 has a coffee shop on-site alongside local gifts. Launch Fishers has a good coffee shop too, though food and drink beyond it are limited. Granite City is the tea pick: free gourmet tea, with Sociology Coffee shop connected or nearby.

San Francisco leads with 5 spaces listing coffee and tea, and the Trellis card above is one of them. Dallas and New York have 4 each. Brooklyn, Miami, Tampa, Austin, Atlanta and Tucson have 3 apiece, which is where Hatchways in Victory Park and Think Lounge in northwest Austin sit. Denver, Plano, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Kansas City and Fort Lauderdale round out the list with 2 each. If your city isn't in the top group, the full national list runs to 137 spaces across 102 cities.

Noise is the thing that separates these spaces. Launch Fishers has open-plan energy that can make deep focus difficult on busier days, and it only opens Tuesday to Thursday. Trellis is social too, with happy hours and tea time on the calendar, so it isn't a silent room. Hatchways leans the other way, quiet and green with soft background music. Think Lounge is built for focus, with soundproof booths and enclosed work rooms. On parking, Granite City has free garage, lot and street parking, Foster has a free parking lot, and Think Lounge has free street parking. None of the eight list weekend hours, so plan around a weekday.