These are the Top 10 Coffeehouses in Suburban Maryland DC USA:
Your source for the readers' Top Ten coffeehouses in the Baltimore, Suburban Maryland, DC area.
What makes a good coffeehouse? Coffehouses have an ambience that extend beyond a cup of coffee. Your "coffee break" is a brief escape from your day's bustle. The coffeehouses listed below should have most or all of these elements:
- The aroma of coffee roast wafting through the air as you walk in the door.
- A handsome, inviting, or bohemian atmosphere and decoration - with a nook or two for intimate seating and conversation, or a vantage point for people-watching.
- An enticing choice of tea, coffee, capauccino, and latte. Some might also like frozen drinks in the hot weather.
- Coffeehouses that are co-loacted with books and art work, board games, etc. are people magnets.
- A little background music: classical, jazz, vocal et al... NPR is cool too. Would live music be asking too much?
The Top 10 Coffeehouses in Suburban Maryland/DC[]
Well, Baltimore is added too because a couple places there are so special!
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No. 1. Clayton Fine Books and Cyber Cafe, 317 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, (410) 752-6800
- Stop in here for a fine coffee or sandwich. It's like being home, surrounded by new and used books. The proprietors treat you like family. On special occasions, they serve tea from a Samovar (a Russian coffee service carafe), given to them by customers from Russia.
No. 2. Mayorga Coffee Masters, 8040 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, Tel: 301-562-9090
- Local favorite in the revived Downtown Silver Spring. Comfy couches, live music, wi-fi. Roasts and distributes their own brand of coffee. (Note - also a Rockville store at King's Farm, @ Redland & Pleasant.)
No. 3. Carmen's, Nelson Road, Rockville {next to Hard Times Cafe at Rout 270 Exit 6A}
- Nice neighborhood with outdoor bistro tables. Their specialty is Italian gelato & ices, now New Zealand Kiwi pies. Bring the kids.
No. 4. Caribou's...
No. 5. Seattle's Best Coffee...
No. 6. Starbucks...
No. 7. Starbucks
No. 8. Starbucks
No. 9. Starbucks
No. 10. Starbucks, Wintergreen Plaza, Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
- Spacious enough to fit in a number of folks {read: not overcrowed}. I think the gas log fireplace might need fixing?? But when it is running you can sit by the hearth and snuggle up to the fire.
