Thanks, Milwaukee: We’re a 2026 Best of Milwaukee Winner

We’re feeling the love. Stone Creek Coffee has been named a 2026 Best of Milwaukee Readers’ Choice Winner for Coffee Roaster by Milwaukee Magazine, and this one feels pretty darn good.

For more than 30 years, we’ve been roasting coffee in Milwaukee, building neighborhood cafes, working directly with coffee producers, and learning something new every day. Now, our fellow Milwaukeeans have given us another reason to celebrate.

Thank you for voting for Stone Creek Coffee.

A Milwaukee Coffee Roaster, Through and Through

Stone Creek Coffee started in Milwaukee in 1993, and we’ve been growing alongside this city ever since. Today, we roast coffee locally in Milwaukee six days a week, sourcing coffees from around the world and bringing them back to our roastery for the final part of their journey: the roast.

That means when you grab a bag of Stone Creek Coffee, you’re getting fresh roasted coffee from a Milwaukee coffee roaster, with the roast date printed right on the bag. We roast to order, ship quickly, and recommend enjoying our coffee between days 3–14 for peak flavor.

But being a Milwaukee coffee company has never just meant roasting coffee here. It means being part of the neighborhoods, people, and places that make Milwaukee home.

Coffee Shops Across Milwaukee

If you’re looking for a coffee shop in Milwaukee, there’s a good chance there’s a Stone Creek nearby.

From our downtown Factory Cafe and Roastery to our Downer Avenue cafe, our neighborhood cafes bring fresh roasted coffee, espresso, pour-overs, food, and a little Stone Creek weirdness to communities throughout the Milwaukee area. We have nine cafes across the Milwaukee area, including locations in Glendale, Shorewood, Wauwatosa, Whitefish Bay, Delafield, and Oconomowoc.

And The Factory is a particularly Milwaukee kind of coffee shop. Housed in an 1888 Cream City brick building downtown, it brings together our roastery, bakery, headquarters, Learning Lab, and cafe under one roof.

That’s pretty much our whole thing: coffee, people, learning, and community all tangled together.

Specialty Coffee, Roasted Right Here in MKE

We’re serious about coffee. We’re also serious about not taking ourselves too seriously.

Our coffee program is built around Farm to Cup sourcing, thoughtful roasting, and a willingness to keep learning. We work to understand the coffees we buy: the people who grow them, the places they come from, how they’re processed, and what makes each lot worth bringing home.

Then we roast those coffees here in Milwaukee with the goal of letting each coffee speak. Our light roasts highlight acidity, fruit, floral character, and origin; our medium roasts lean into sweetness, caramelized flavors, and body; and our dark roasts bring bold, smoky, deeply roasted character.

That variety is part of what makes being a Milwaukee specialty coffee roaster so much fun. There’s always another coffee to taste, another brewing method to obsess over, and another Coffee Geek to nerd out with.

You Voted. We’re Going to Keep Roasting.

Milwaukee has given us a lot over the last 30-plus years. A home, a community, and a whole lot of coffee conversations. And now, a spot among Milwaukee Magazine’s 2026 Best of Milwaukee Readers’ Choice Winners.

We’re grateful to everyone who voted, everyone who stops into our cafes, everyone who takes a bag of fresh roasted coffee home, and everyone who has been part of the Stone Creek story along the way.

We’ll keep doing what we do: roasting coffee in Milwaukee, learning from the people who grow it, taking care of the people who drink it, and never stopping the pursuit of a better cup.

Thanks, Milwaukee. We’ll see you at the coffee bar.

Read the full Milwaukee Magazine 2026 Best of Milwaukee Readers’ Choice Winners.