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Coffee, bars & breweries

Drink

The coffee here is roasted in the same towns it's poured in, and the bar rooms take a drink as seriously as the roasters take a bean — one habit, two ends of the day. Narrow by what's in the glass, or by town.

21
places · 3 towns
21 places
Coffee · Fayetteville

Puritan Coffee & Beer

House beer light enough to order by the pitcher, in a Dickson Street coffee shop that became a clubhouse.

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Bar · Bentonville

Undercroft

A cocktail speakeasy hidden in the cellar of an 1898 church.

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Bar · Bentonville

Hardwater Cocktail Lounge

A cocktail room shaped by other cities' bars and filled with Bentonville — down to the grandmother's art on the walls.

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Bar · Bentonville

Celeste

Summer rooftop over the old church, downtown Bentonville at sunset.

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Bar · BentonvilleWorth the trip

Callisto

The door is a painting. The reason to go is the thirty-deep tiki list behind it, every juice fresh-squeezed and every syrup made in house.

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Brewery · Bentonville

Bike Rack Brewing Co.

Bentonville's oldest brewery and the trail crowd's post-ride taproom at 8th Street Market, a local act playing its patio every weekend in season.

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Restaurant · Springdale

TOCA

Climb one flight above the Emma Avenue tracks for chilaquiles verdes and a spicy guava mezcalita — "Built by Latinos, led by Latinos."

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Bar · Fayetteville

Pinpoint

Restored pinball and craft cocktails in a Block Avenue basement. On Wednesday league nights, the scores count worldwide.

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Bar · Fayetteville

Maxine's Tap Room

The Fayetteville dive Maxine Miller opened in 1950 now builds its cocktails on local honey, hibiscus, and raisin syrups. Esquire named it among America's best bars.

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Shop · BentonvilleWorth the trip

Markham & Fitz

Bean-to-bar chocolate worked on-site in the 8th Street Market, single-origin bars with a Good Food Award and an International Chocolate Award behind them.

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Performing arts · Fayetteville

George's Majestic Lounge

Live music on Dickson Street since 1927, by the railroad tracks, most nights of the week.

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Brewery · Fayetteville

Fossil Cove Brewing Company

Fayetteville's first production brewery, named for the Beaver Lake cove it brews from, on North Birch since 2012.

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Brewery · Springdale

Core Brewing & Distilling Co.

The brewery Jesse Core started in Springdale in 2010, back when NWA had almost none; the taproom still pours straight from the tanks.

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Coffee · Bentonville

Onyx Coffee Lab

The Rogers lab behind three U.S. coffee titles will teach anyone Coffee 101.

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Coffee · Bentonville

Doyenne

The Onyx program sourced entirely from women coffee producers — a cup chosen on a premise, not just a profile.

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Coffee · Fayetteville

Doomsday Coffee & Roasterie

The artist whose work hangs over your table is probably the one pulling your shot.

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Coffee

Confident Coffee Roasters

Amber Dietrich's woman-owned roastery and scratch bakery, sharing one kitchen at the Johnson flagship.

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Coffee · Fayetteville

Arsaga's Coffee Roasters

Thirty years of family roasting, poured inside the rooms Fayetteville already uses.

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Coffee · Bentonville

Airship Coffee

Four Bentonville cafes, no template. One of them is an open-air bar in the woods you can reach only on foot or by bike.

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Bar · Bentonville

Loveless

A Bentonville cocktail bar where the records are the reason the room exists, no-requests policy and all.

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Coffee · Bentonville

Field Notes

The coffee room off the square that turns into a patio wine bar by evening.

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