The Coffee & Tea Exchange

Our go to coffee shop in our neighborhood! Great selection, friendly service, and excellent coffee and tea for an even better price (and a good selection of locally sourced baked goods). We love to bring visitors here and have them pick their own coffee beans for their trip. It's especially handy that they will do quarter pound orders of coffee and down to an ounce on teas. We also love their seasonal specialty lattes, always creative and interesting.

Highly Recommend: the coffee here is great! Had their seasonal latte this time and it was good as all else. Only caution can give is that at peak morning hours like 9-11 am, the line can get pretty long, going outside, and you may have to wait about 15-20 minutes to just order your drink. I am sure that next time I will be in line waiting, I probably will go somewhere else. It is though a great place with great coffee so if you don't see a big line definitely get some.

Nice place with a hipstery vibe.
They have a lot of teas, spices and coffee that you can buy by weight or drinks. The entrance area where you can order it's pretty small so only a couple of customers (2-3) can fit there at a time. This makes a line form outside, especially during the mornings.

I personally love the vast variety of caffeine-free tea. Tried the cranberry apple iced tea and loved it. Also ordered the banana walnut muffin and a chocolate croissant (both were great).

Finally found a place that can make proper coffee! Staff there are super nice and knowledgeable. And don’t even get me start on the options, products they have! Amazing! Best coffee I’ve had in Chicago to date!

They have a great selection of teas, of all varieties. Now this may be because I had just got back from living in Washington for a while, but the teas didn't seem to produce as much flavor than what I was used to.

I got Himalayan Honey (Green), Pu'er, Chamomile, Licorice, Ginger, Matte and a few others. I tried a few different methods of steeping but the only way I was able to get more flavour was by adding more tea while steeping. Compared to the teas I still had from Washington, the flavour was still less pronounced.

But this again could be due to my pallet not used to Chicago again. Still, the selection and ability to get tea made there are good pluses.

Look at how cute that stopper is!

You know it's another Chicago classic. They have a superb selection of everything! I have to return to try so many more things! Swiss water process chocolate raspberry decaf, pumpkin pie latte, I need to snag an aeropress, and buy some organic Ceylon cinnamon!

Will be back!

I love visiting this coffee shop when I’m in Chicago! They always have a fun menu and a great selection of tea and coffee beans. Plus any brewing accessory you could need! :)

Great place for bulk coffee and tea, plus basic and unique drinks. They have countless options for coffee beans, from single origin to blends and whatever roast you need. The tea options are fantastic, with dozens of options for black, green, herbal, and everything in between. You can buy a full pound of coffee beans for a very reasonable price, and you can get small bags of tea to try out something new with little risk. They also have brewing equipment for every technique.

Their drip and cold brew coffee are great, as are their specialty drinks like the golden latte. Service is quick and friendly and very knowledgeable about tea and coffee options. Highly recommend!

Value for money is fantastic and staff is always kind and helpful. Way better coffee that popular chains for like half the price. And you get properly brewed coffee from a daily selection of beans. They offer an incredible variety of beans that you can buy for the pound at around the same price (and less) of much lower quality grocery store coffee!!! Not a tea guy but they do also offer a large selection of tea.

This is such a cute coffee shop! 1st time here, & I had "The Margo". It was awesome! Great fresh coffee 💜 They are going above & beyond with covid protection! Customer service was also awesome. Parking can be hard to find sometimes, so order ahead so you can just skip the line & pick up (: