Steel Oak Coffee

ormond beach doesn't usually come up in conversations about florida's specialty coffee scene, but steel oak on south yonge street keeps pulling people back. the regulars here are loyal in a way that doesn't happen unless something is consistently right. you don't build that kind of following by accident, not in a smaller coastal market where the options are thinner and the locals know the difference. what makes it stick is harder to name, exactly, the kind of place where the coffee is treated as the point, not the backdrop. if you're passing through the volusia county stretch of a1a or cutting inland from the beach, south yonge is worth the detour. start with an espresso drink and take it from there.