Stuart's Best Coffee Shops
Five places to actually sit with a cup — a waterfront marina bar, a roaster with a record shop, a Portuguese bakery counter, and an organic roaster with a rotating world map on the shelf.
Picked and checked by hand; updated when hours, venues, menus, or source pages change.
Specialty coffee at Sunset Bay Marina, which means your morning cup comes with boats. It's a serious operation — local suppliers including Wells Coffee and JoJo Tea — but the reason to come is the setting, and the reason to come back is that it stays open until 9pm on Friday and Saturday, which almost no coffee bar does. That late window turns it into an evening spot as easily as a morning one.
- 615 SW Anchorage Way, Stuart, FL 34994
- Open Mon–Thu 7am–6pm, Fri–Sat 7am–9pm, and Sun 9am–3pm. There's a second location in Port Salerno at 4969 SE Dixie Highway.
Coffee roaster and vinyl shop under one mid-century modern roof, open 7am to 9pm every single day of the week. They roast small-batch on site — you can take beans home or sign up for a subscription box — and then browse records while the espresso lands. New releases drop on Tuesdays, so that's the day the crate-diggers turn up.
- 600 Colorado Ave, Stuart, FL 34994
- The only shop on this list open 14 hours a day, seven days a week. It's the reliable answer at 8pm on a Sunday.
Fair Trade, organic, fresh-roasted, and genuinely worth ordering something you've never had before. The rotating selection reads like a world tour — Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Brazil, Bali, Nicaragua, Hawaii — which makes this the shop for the person who actually wants to taste the difference rather than just get caffeinated. Ask what's on this week; the answer changes.
- 241 SW Monterey Rd, Stuart, FL 34994
- Open Mon–Sat 7am–5pm and Sun 7am–4pm — seven days a week, with the doors open at 7am every one of them.
Veteran-owned, and built for people with somewhere to be — the Federal Hwy shop has a drive-thru and opens at 6am six days a week. The signature drinks are worth breaking routine for: the Square Knot is a steamed cinnamon latte with honey and vanilla, and the Barrel Knot is a honey lavender oat-milk latte. If you'd rather linger than roll through, there's a second Stuart location downtown on Flagler Ave, next door to the Lyric Theatre.
- 1917 NW Federal Hwy, Stuart, FL 34994
- Federal Hwy hours are Mon–Sat 6am–6pm and Sun 6am–2pm. Downtown-before-a-show is the Flagler Ave move.
Portuguese coffee and pastéis de nata, which is a sentence that should end most arguments about where to go. The custard tarts are the headline, but there's fresh bread, sandwiches, and handcrafted drinks behind them, so a quick pastry stop turns into lunch more often than you'd plan for. Cozy seating inside, covered seating out — pick based on how much of the morning you intend to give away.
- 820 SE Lincoln Ave, Stuart, FL
- Open Mon–Fri 7:30am–3pm and Sat 8:30am–3pm. Closed Sunday, so it's a weekday-and-Saturday habit.