Coffee Apothecary

bettendorf doesn't have a ton of these. a place where the coffee is clearly the point, not the backdrop to something else. coffee apothecary sits on 53rd avenue, which isn't a street most people outside the quad cities think about, but regulars here have made it a genuine habit, the kind you don't break without noticing. there's a specificity to what they're doing that you feel pretty quickly, a sense that whoever put this together thought carefully about what goes in the cup and why. it's not a loud operation. it just holds a strong reputation among people who care about this stuff, and that reputation has staying power. if you're anywhere near bettendorf, a weekday morning here is a good reason to leave the house early.