Grizzaffi Coffee

you're on mckinney street, which cuts through downtown houston with a certain no-nonsense energy, office buildings on one side, the occasional gap where the city breathes. grizzaffi sits at 1500, right in that stretch, and it draws the kind of crowd that actually needs coffee to function rather than people photographing it. the reviews are strong enough that you don't walk in wondering if it'll be good. you walk in already fairly confident. that matters when you're downtown and the alternatives are a hotel lobby or a chain doing its best impression of something better. whatever you order, midmorning on a weekday is probably when mckinney is at its most honest, and this place fits that hour well.