Fairgrounds Coffee & Tea

The vibe is great here! So fun with the greenery and the lights. I enjoyed my morning coffee here while studying. The only reason it’s not 5 stars is because the coffee is not served in a mug when you dine in. I expected a mug with a beautiful design in the froth of my latte, but got a cup and no design. Tasted delicious!

Beautiful shop with great coffee! Really enjoyed the coffee from the taps! Not a big coffee drinker but really liked the Limitless Salted Caramel cold brew with a little cream!

I love this place. The coffee is delicious but the food is also wonderful! I've just had the breakfast sandwich and seasonal avocado toast but based on how good those two items were, I'm confident everything else is great! My only recommendation is don't go here if you are in a hurry. Since they give you GOOD coffee, it takes a little bit more time but is worth the wait. It's always pretty busy so I'm glad to see them thriving!

Coffee was good. Food wasn’t. I tried at least 3 times ordered different things (thinking maybe I was just ordering the wrong thing but no). Don’t waste your money on their food. The avocado toast looked sad and tasted worse.

Cute coffee shop in the North Loop. Popped in for an afternoon caffeine fix and was charmed by the ambience in the cafe. I love that they have so many coffee options on tap.

Great place for coffee. Food is a little overpriced. Good vibes

Cool spot for some decent coffee and amazing food! Go during the weekday because it gets super busy on the weekends and makes it not very inviting unless that's your thing.

Best chai I’ve ever tasted! We stopped in here with friends on Saturday after hearing them rave about it. The place was busier than I expected considering the pandemic, which says a lot about the place right off the bat. I ordered a mocha, which was excellent, and then I ordered the butter scotch chai. My God I’m in heaven! Other items that we ordered at our table were the Earl gray lavender tea, maple sweet potato latte, and an iced coffee. All were excellent, but that chai......

We also ordered the lox platter and another breakfast sandwich, both were excellent. My husband really enjoyed the lox platter.

There is no parking lot, so it’s on-street paid parking, but we didn’t have any trouble.

This place is super adorable, and has easily become my favorite coffee shop.

Definitely one of the coolest coffee places in the cities.

Unique that it has so many different coffees available (not just their own like many coffee shops, it's almost like a bar for coffee vs a brewery for coffee if that makes sense)

Last visit, and probably mean it was my last visit. The place should be creative, a bit quirky, trendy, inviting, quality and tasty, but it simply wasn't.
Service was poor. Our friend must have waited at least 10 minutes or more for her drink. My college age daughter commented more than once on the unfriendly, bordering snobby employees. In her words, "like they think they are better than you". We were going to order food, but after watching people wait and wait, we decided it wasn't worth it. This was after we sat in one spot and had to clean it up ourselves - crumbs and smears. Then we moved to another slightly less dirty table. Looking around we saw each table was left messy after the guests left. It didn't make wanting to stay or order food an inviting proposition. We had 2 cold brews on tap. One was simply not good at all, the other better and the one we actually wanted was out.
Also, the food does look good but we were less than impressed when reading the menu to see american cheese on many items and one item offering scrambled egg whites - aren't we over pretending that yolks are bad? We went from thinking this was a fun destination with elevated coffee offerings to a neglected, becoming run down shop.