lincoln has a quieter specialty coffee scene than you might expect from a college city, which makes the places that do it seriously stand out fast. reactor, on y street in the midtown area, is one of those places. the address, 2124 y st, puts you in a part of lincoln that moves at its own pace, and the shop fits that. regulars here aren't casual about it, the kind of loyalty reactor has built tends to come from consistency over time, not novelty. you don't stumble into that kind of standing by accident. what carries through in the reputation is that the coffee is treated as the point, not the backdrop. a good place to start, if you're figuring out your order, is whatever's pulling as a single origin on filter that week.
curated by gautam khorana, editor · updated
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