Bristol specialty coffee
City guide · United States · Updated October 2026

The best coffee in Bristol

1 cafés mapped

Specialty coffee in Bristol, Pennsylvania centers on Calm Waters Coffee, a family-owned small-batch roaster with a café on Mill Street.

Calm Waters roasts its own coffee and runs cafés at 242 Mill St in Bristol and in nearby Newtown. Its bags include rotating roaster's-choice offerings and single-farm lots, and it sells subscriptions. The cafés open at 7am and close at noon early in the week and mid-afternoon the rest of the week.

Bristol's listed scene is just this roaster, so the picture here is a single roaster-café.

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What is the best specialty coffee shop in Bristol?+
Calm Waters Coffee currently tops Vereda's community ranking for Bristol.
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