Grace Coffee Co.

102 N. Water St., Milwaukee

A Madison coffee shop—eight locations—this is the new one in Milwaukee. It’s in the Third Ward on the corner of Water Steet and Erie—next to the drawbridge you’re always getting stuck at—an ideal location. Closest café to the Confluence. I stopped in—couldn’t have been more than a few hours after “grand opening” (I’m exaggerating) and there’s already regulars! They may have imported some from Madison. Are the Madison coffee drinkers and the Milwaukee coffee drinkers different in some significant way? People are already camped out here with laptops like they’re never gonna leave, involved in meetings, trysts, what have you. A lot of places to sit, nooks and crannies, and they have food. Open ’til 4pm, seven days a week. Good coffee.

12.6.23