Portland may be the most coffee-obsessed city in America per capita. Stumptown Coffee, founded here in 1999, helped launch the third-wave movement nationwide. The city's fiercely independent, sustainability-conscious culture means single-origin, direct-trade, and small-batch are the norm rather than the exception. Alberta Street, Hawthorne, and the Pearl District are the main cafe corridors.
Coffee neighborhoods
Portland has the most coffee roasters per capita of any US city and was home to Stumptown Coffee, one of the foundational roasters of America's third-wave coffee movement.
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