Astra Coffee Roasters

you're on roger williams ave in highland park, a quieter stretch of the north shore where the pace feels genuinely different from the city proper. astra coffee roasters sits here, roasting in-house and building the kind of local reputation that takes time to accumulate and is harder to fake. highland park isn't a neighborhood that rewards pretension, and astra seems to understand that. what you get is specialty coffee taken seriously, sourced and roasted with intention, without the performance that sometimes trails that level of seriousness around. if you're making the trip up from chicago or just passing through the north shore, the roastery is worth orienting your morning around. start with whatever single origin is on the brew bar that week.