Blueprint Coffee - Washington Ave

blueprint coffee roasts its own beans, and that matters more than you might expect when you're standing on washington ave trying to decide where to spend your morning. st. louis has plenty of places that call themselves specialty coffee, but not all of them close the loop between sourcing and serving the way a roaster-café does. when the roasting happens in-house, the people pulling your shot have a much shorter chain of accountability to the cup. no middleman, no guesswork about how long those beans sat in a warehouse. 3301 washington ave puts you right in the midtown corridor, which is worth knowing if you're building a morning around it. start with whatever single-origin filter they're running that week.