The 50 Best College Coffee Shops in America
By Complex Magazine | May 10, 2011 | 1:40 pm | Permalink
33. Metropolis
School: Loyola University Chicago
Address: 1039 West Granville Ave, Chicago, Ill.
metropoliscoffee.com
Outdoor Seating
Good Food
If you’ve been in Chicago long, or longer than a few hours, you might have already heard of Metropolis. Brewing in-house roasted coffee and crack-like red line espresso and offering hoosier mama pies and cakes, it is a neighborhood staple, full of locals and Loyola study buddies, all three rooms of it. This place is such a landmark you’d swear you’d seen Clark Kent running into the bathroom. But maybe you just need more coffee.
Yoff May 10th, 2011 at 08:38 PM
Number one coffee shop is in Texas. List invalidated. kthxbye.
qwertygrl May 11th, 2011 at 11:20 PM
i think you'd change your mind if you actually visited spider house. it really is all the review makes it out to be.
JackEComplex May 12th, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Each of these spots is worthy, but we're standing by Spider House at No. 1. Curious what Yoff's reasoning would be in dismissing a coffee shop in Texas. Texans don't need coffee because...the steaks and concealed gun laws are enough to keep you up at night?
mikekingjr May 13th, 2011 at 02:52 PM
Plus as a UT grad, let me assure you: Austin isn't reeeeeeally part of Texas. An Oasis of awesomeness in a state of lameness.
CHL-Latte May 13th, 2011 at 03:36 PM
Both CHL and chai latte in-hand. You don't know Austin if you don't think anything and everything goes here--lots of gay cowboy republican vegans. Great place to live and go to school. Yee-effen-haw.
jollyjj May 12th, 2011 at 01:41 PM
If you're a liberal Easterner (like I am), you should see no reason why a coffee shop in Texas should automatically be bad. Judging a whole state based on the opinions of some is far from open-minded.
csconine May 10th, 2011 at 11:20 PM
Could this list be more of a pain in the ass to click through?
Will May 11th, 2011 at 12:04 PM
no.
eM May 12th, 2011 at 06:21 PM
Agreed. Only looked at #1 since it was too annoying to click through each and every single one.
ohcoya May 15th, 2011 at 02:13 PM
Exactly what I was thinking. Annoying as eff.
Ed May 17th, 2011 at 05:15 PM
You're not freaking kidding. After going through 5 I was frantically looking for just a list somewhere!
Lorrie May 11th, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Dear list folks: Trabant's address is 1309 NE 45th St, Seattle, WA. Not 309.
JackEComplex May 12th, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Thanks Lorrie!
haha May 11th, 2011 at 01:28 PM
the level off asshurt going on here is hilarious
dogface May 11th, 2011 at 04:20 PM
yo this coffee shop rocks some crazy socks off!
Dennis May 12th, 2011 at 09:18 AM
The site owners need to find a better way to navigate through the list like this. It was painful going through this and the web control provided is awful. I'd much rather see a listing of the places than navigating through this control. From a web part developer, this looks cool but is very poorly designed, slow, and clunky to use. I stopped a third of the way through.
Mona May 12th, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Arguably the BEST coffee shop in the US. Delicious locally roasted artisan coffee + expeditious service always served with a smile.
JackEComplex May 12th, 2011 at 03:52 PM
Hey Mona, which one are you talking about?
Mona May 12th, 2011 at 08:41 PM
I am singing the praises of small world coffee in Princeton, NJ!
Jerome May 16th, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Small World definitely should have been rating higher. It's awesome.
Andrew May 12th, 2011 at 11:45 AM
i'm a little disappointed that the University of Texas didn't make the list. WTF?
JackEComplex May 12th, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Andrew! You got No. 1: http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2011/05/the-50-best-college-coffee-shops-in-america/spider-house#gallery Now, go find Yoff and tell him why UT has such a strong coffee culture!
Brian Curr May 12th, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Trident Booksellers & Cafe is in Boston on Berklee College of Music (berklee.edu) urban campus. MIT is in another city across the Charles River - Cambridge, MA. A MIT student would have to walk a mile-and-half to grab a cup of coffee at Trident Booksellers. A Berklee College of Music student walks a few feet. Can you correct?? Or, did MIT pay you to put Trident on their campus! :-) Thanks!
JackEComplex May 12th, 2011 at 03:54 PM
Good point Brian. We'll add Berklee to the entry. Thanks.
permazorch May 12th, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Bourgeoise Pig is great fun. That's all.