City Cast Portland captures the one-of-a-kind creative spirit of this place and tackles who we are and where we’re going — from big deals, like equity and livability, to tiny delights, like the city's most wonderful doughnut.
Host Claudia Meza is so over the notion that ‘Portland is over.’ On the show, she’ll revive your civic pride and stir you to help create local change — through conversations with neighbors, newsmakers, artists and entrepreneurs about our ever-changing city. Learn more and subscribe to our daily newsletter at portland.citycast.fm.
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City Cast Portland captures the one-of-a-kind creative spirit of this place and tackles who we are and where we’re going — from big deals, like equity and livability, to tiny delights, like the city's most wonderful doughnut.
Host Claudia Meza is so over the notion that ‘Portland is over.’ On the show, she’ll revive your civic pride and stir you to help create local change — through conversations with neighbors, newsmakers, artists and entrepreneurs about our ever-changing city. Learn more and subscribe to our daily newsletter at portland.citycast.fm.
Ever since the late ’90s, when specialty roasters like Stumptown started up, Portland has been known as a coffee town. But now that we have hundreds of shops to choose from, which ones are the best? Today we're revisiting host Claudia Meza's conversation with producers John Notarianni and Giulia Fiaoni about our city’s ultimate coffee shops — and sharing picks from our audience.
This episode first aired on April 8, 2025
Discussed in today's episode:
Heart Coffee Roasters
Dear Sandy
Tov Coffee
Proud Mary
Great North Coffee
Portland Cà Phê
The Albina Press
LōRō Coffee
The Fresh Pot (connected to Powell's Books Hawthorne)
Affogato
Jet Black Coffee Company
Slow Pour Coffee (formerly Living Room Coffee House)
Keeper Coffee
The Dragonfly Coffee House
Rose City Coffee Co.
Fetch Coffee Roasters
Fuller's Coffee Shop
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City Cast Portland
City Cast Portland captures the one-of-a-kind creative spirit of this place and tackles who we are and where we’re going — from big deals, like equity and livability, to tiny delights, like the city's most wonderful doughnut.
Host Claudia Meza is so over the notion that ‘Portland is over.’ On the show, she’ll revive your civic pride and stir you to help create local change — through conversations with neighbors, newsmakers, artists and entrepreneurs about our ever-changing city. Learn more and subscribe to our daily newsletter at portland.citycast.fm.
