Lofty Coffee Co.

While the trattorias on India Street perfect marinara and the oyster bars occupy nautical warehouses, Lofty operates in a different register entirely—this is where the neighborhood's coffee ritual moved beyond corner-bar espresso into something more deliberate. The beans come from local roasters, the brewing methods skew nerdy (Kyoto-style cold brew, Turkish coffee with cardamom), and the crowd splits between laptop-campers nursing matcha and families sharing egg-veggie-chipotle sandwiches on brioche.

The patio earns the real estate: dog-friendly, planted with enough greenery to soften the India Street foot traffic, and functional year-round when you need somewhere walkable to kill an hour before your Morning Glory table opens up. Inside trades on industrial-chic without tipping into Edison-bulb parody—exposed brick, good natural light, the kind of seating mix that works whether you're solo with a cortado or splitting a poached-egg croissant with heirloom tomatoes.

The menu doesn't try to compete with the neighborhood's brunch heavyweights. It's compact, breakfast-focused, built around fluffy eggs and quality bread rather than elaborate scrambles or sauce work. Reviewers fixate on the Matcha, Mint & Milk ("may change this espresso drinker's mind") and the Turkish coffee, which gets served properly—cardamom, sugar, the whole ritual. The salted caramel latte and standard espresso drinks register as competent but unremarkable, which tracks for a spot prioritizing specialty brews over volume.

Service runs friendly—baristas offer remakes without attitude if your cortado doesn't land right—and the vibe stays genuinely casual. Kids work, dogs work, solo work sessions work. It's the neighborhood's practical coffee stop when you need somewhere that isn't trying to be a piazza but still respects what good beans can do.