The FILTER city guide

Louisville

Kentucky

Specialty-only coffee shops in Louisville, hand-picked for the coffee first and the room second.

12 approved shops

Neighborhood / city

12 shops

Classic coffeehouse on Grinstead Drive that roasts its beans on the premises and sells them to take home.

Crescent Hill / Lexington Rd · Louisville, KY

Quills' Frankfort Avenue café in Clifton.

Clifton · Louisville, KY

Quills' Baxter Avenue café in the Highlands.

Highlands · Louisville, KY

Quills' Jeffersontown café.

Jeffersontown · Louisville, KY

Quills' café in the Norton Commons neighborhood.

Norton Commons · Prospect, KY

Quills' NuLu café in a former firehouse, from a Louisville roaster founded in Germantown in 2007.

NuLu · Louisville, KY

Quills' St. Matthews café on Shelbyville Road.

St. Matthews · Louisville, KY

Bardstown Road café of a Louisville roaster that sources beans from Honduran farms and roasts in small batches.

Highlands · Louisville, KY

Sunergos' café on Norris Place near Bardstown Road.

Highlands / Douglass Loop · Louisville, KY

Original Preston Street café of Sunergos, a Louisville roaster.

Schnitzelburg / Preston · Louisville, KY

Sunergos' St. Matthews café, opened in 2022.

St. Matthews · Louisville, KY

Sunergos' South End café on Woodlawn Avenue.

Beechmont / South End · Louisville, KY