Coffee Shops in Ellison Bay
4 places, each with a quick take from us — kept current as hours and seasons change.
Blue Bear Ellison Bay
A scratch-made breakfast and brunch spot on Highway 42 with a full bar and specialty coffee program: carrot cake pancakes, beignets, and a house Bloody Mary. The same space turns into Della Porta for dinner, so this one's strictly a morning-into-early-afternoon stop.
Brew Coffeehouse
The espresso is pulled from Stone Creek Coffee, poured in a downtown Ellison Bay room of leather sofas and local artists' work. It stays open year-round in a town where most doors close for winter, and the breakfast counter runs to homemade granola and the Brew'ito.
Cuesta Coffee
Order an espresso drink pulled from Stepwise Coffee Roasters beans. Owner Tyler Abts runs this Ellison Bay cafe out of the old Gills Rock Coffee space at the peninsula's far north end, hangs a disco ball over the bar and keeps a turntable spinning hand-picked vinyl, and works a small from-scratch menu that rotates with the season.
Kick Ash
Housed in a former Lutheran church in Ellison Bay, this gluten-free roaster and market makes its name on small-batch granola and coffee roasted onsite. Order the granola: it is the house signature, made in a dedicated gluten-free kitchen.