Bitty & Beau's Coffee

the thing about bitty & beau's on franklin avenue is how they've figured out that consistency matters more than flash. walk in any tuesday morning and the espresso tastes exactly like it did last thursday. that's harder than it sounds. waco's coffee scene has grown up around places like this, independent spots that understand their neighborhood instead of trying to reinvent it. the milk steamer hisses at just the right pressure. the beans smell like they were roasted this week, not shipped from some warehouse three states over. regulars don't come back for instagram moments. they come back because someone behind the counter remembers how they take their cortado, because the coffee doesn't taste burned or bitter, because sitting here feels like being part of something smaller and better than the chain down the street. nearly 945 google reviews averaging 4.9 stars tells you everything about what happens when people…