2025 Orlando Coffee Bracket Challenge
Who has the best coffee in Central Florida?
The 2025 Orlando Coffee Bracket begins Wednesday, March 19 and ends April 17, 2025. Here are the 32 contenders. We need YOUR help to decide who moves on in each Round.
THE RESTAURANTS
We’ve picked 32 restaurants in the Orlando area that are known for their coffee. Each week we’ll have the shops going head to head (think March Madness!) until the competition is whittled down to 16, then eight, then four and, finally, the two left standing for the championship round. The winners will be published in the June 2025 issue of Orlando magazine and on orlandomagazine.com!
Downtown Orlando & Audubon Park Region
1. Craft & Common
2. Deeply Coffee (Deeply Cafe and Bottle Shop)
3. Cups and Pups Coffee
4. Lineage Coffee Roasting
5. Lobos Coffee Roasters
6. Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar
7. Framework Coffee Bar
8. Easy Luck Coffee
Winter Park & Maitland Region
1. Foxtail Coffee
2. New General Cafe
3. Stardust Video & Coffee
4. Blackbird Comics & Coffeehouse
5. Barnie’s Coffee & Tea Co.
6. Light on the Sugar
7. Coffee For The Soul
8. Austin’s Coffee
West Orlando & Attractions Region
1. Axum Coffee
2. Paloma Coffee Co.
3. Gideon’s Bakehouse
4. XO Coffee Shop
5. But First. Coffee Shop
6. Le Cafe De Paris
7. Achilles Art Cafe
8. Moma’s Cafe
East Orlando & Beyond Region
1. Vespr Coffeebar
2. Duo58 Coffee Bar & Cafe
3. Holy Grain Coffee Shop
4. Fable Coffee & Pastries
5. Café Coquí
6. Cup of Love Cafe
7. Joury Ice Cream & Cafe
8. 407 Cafe
THE BRACKET
COMPLETE YOUR BRACKET NOW
Voting has ended! The champion will be announced in our June Issue in print and online.
BRACKET INFORMATION
Voting starts March 19. There will be five rounds of voting, with the final round ending at 11:59 on April 17, 2025. To participate, voters must register a valid email and then login to cast a vote for each match-up. Each voter may cast one vote per match-up per round.
Round 1: March 19-22
Round 2: March 23-28
Round 3: March 29-April 3
Round 4: April 4-10
Final Round: April 11-17
Registered voters will be automatically subscribed to Orlando magazine’s newsletter, our sponsor’s promotional emails, and Coffee Bracket Challenge email updates. You can unsubscribe from either mailing list at any time using the links at the bottom of the email.
The winning coffee shop for each match-up will be the one with the most valid votes at the end of the round. We will announce the winners of each round on our social media channels, so make sure you’re following us on Instagram, X, and Facebook.
