This coffeehouse could probably survive on drinks alone—the coffee is smooth and rich (and that’s not even the stuff from the Clover brewer), and teas are served with ceremony…

It’s a coffee shop with vegan tendencies, but de.li.cious doesn’t have that kumbaya vibe of spots such as Heartland Café. Instead, it appears to be just another coffee shop…

Andersonville is nuts about this coffee shop, which offers a colorful variety of organic, sustainable menu items. The quiche selection, featuring a hearty wild mushroom pie, is definitely a draw, as are the handful of can’t-believe-it’s-vegan desserts…

You know you’re in a neighborhood favorite when a cop stopping in for his “usual” knows the name of the stroller-pushing mom who’s come to pick up her sister’s birthday cake…

T A café as lovely and sunny as this inspires lingering. But lingering requires cup upon cup of caffeine, and that could become hazardous. This European export has a solution for that, though: a full menu of food, most of it the unlikeliest coffeehouse food you’ve come across…

The guys behind Hyde Park’s Istria are all about keeping things small-scale and local. But that may be hard for them to continue, as people are bound to respond to roasted-to-order coffee, fresh panini and the dozen varieties of housemade gelato…

To get Wicker Park excited about another coffee shop, you’d have to do something pretty crazy. Like, say, install a DeLorean in the front of the store. Okay, Wormhole, you win. So now that this time-travel-themed coffee shop has the neighborhood’s attention, what else is going on here?…

Commuters heading for the Logan Square El station make a beeline for the Metropolis coffee drinks at this spacious café. Those not tied down by the nine-to-five prefer to roll in just before noon and set up camp to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi…

There’s plenty to nosh on at this Pilsen bakery: breakfast burritos, sandwiches and fair trade coffee. But it’s outstanding tres leches that, um, takes the cake…

Bagel on Damen is not so much a restaurant as an assemblage of products: Bagels are dropped off each morning from Lincolnwood’s unparalleled New York Bagel & Bialy; Alterra Coffee is brought in from Milwaukee; and there’s a small selection of carefully sourced specialty dry goods available as we