The Best Coffee Shops in Downtown Bellevue.
A chai across from Downtown Park, ganache mochas until 9 PM, the best cup on 108th Avenue, and a café that hires for good — plus every tea, matcha, and bakery-café worth knowing. 47 spots checked in September 2026.
Downtown Bellevue's coffee scene has changed more in the last two years than in the decade before it. Longtime names like Anchorhead, Coffeeholic House, and Café Cesura have closed; Mercurys, Café Hagen, and a wave of Taiwanese and Chinese tea houses have opened; and the Starbucks count downtown has quietly dropped. What hasn't changed is where locals go for a genuinely great cup.
Below are our six Editor's Picks, then the best tea and matcha and bakery-cafés, where to go early, late, or with a laptop, and every coffee and tea spot we track downtown, with hours. Hungry too? See our breakfast and brunch guide.
Quick Picks
Eight starting points, sorted by what the moment calls for.
Third Culture Coffee
Across from Downtown Park
Best CupCaffe Ladro
House-roasted · weekdays from 6
Open LateDote Coffee Bar
Ganache mochas until 9 PM
Community CaféBellden Cafe
A café that hires for good
Best Early CupMercurys Coffee Co.
Opens 5 AM weekdays
Linger LongerCafé Hagen
Scandinavian pastries, open to 8
Best MatchaNana's Green Tea
Matcha lattes and parfaits
Coffee + PastryBelle Pastry
Croissants from 6 AM weekdays
Editor's Picks
Six downtown cafés, each the best at something — the cup, the room, the hours, or the mission.
Third Culture Coffee
Third Culture sits right across the street from Downtown Park, which makes it the easiest coffee-and-a-walk in the city: grab a chai, cross 102nd, and do a lap around the waterfall and the lawn. The café opened in 2017 blending Indian café culture with third-wave coffee — house blends roasted for it by Seattle's True North, Vietnamese phin coffee, turmeric milk — and the room earns a longer stay, with a community table, club chairs, free Wi-Fi, and a traditional Kerala swing.
Dote Coffee Bar
Dote is serious about the coffee itself: direct-trade beans, small-batch roasted in Redmond, pulled by baristas who care how it tastes. What makes it a destination is the chocolate — co-founder Ewald Notter is a master confectioner, and the ganache-based mochas are unlike anything else downtown. The Lincoln Square South flagship stays open until 9 PM most nights, so it doubles as the after-dinner coffee stop.
Dote's second Bellevue café, at 12125 NE Spring Blvd, is a big, light-filled room with more seating than the flagship — two stops from Bellevue Downtown Station on the 2 Line. Mon–Fri 7–5 · Sat 8–5 · Sun 8–4.
Caffe Ladro
Caffe Ladro pours one of the best cups of coffee in Seattle and Bellevue, and it has for a long time: the Seattle roaster has been at it since 1994, roasts its own beans, and in 2002 became the first multi-store coffee company in the country to go 100% fair trade. The Bellevue café at Tower 333 is built around the 108th Avenue workday — open at 6 AM Monday through Friday, closed weekends — so plan the good cup for a weekday.
Bellden Cafe
No café downtown is more community-minded. Bellden is a social enterprise on Old Main Street that hires people from marginalized communities — many of them refugees — and trains them for the workforce through its Bellden Life Project, working with more than 30 local nonprofits. Reader's Digest called it the Nicest Place in Washington. It's also just a lovely café: plants everywhere, rustic wood, a patio, and a full breakfast menu, open every day from 8 to 3.
Café Hagen
Café Hagen brought Copenhagen-style hygge to the Symetra Center in September 2024, the first Eastside outpost of the Seattle café Danish-born owner Maria Beck opened in South Lake Union in 2019. The coffee comes from its own Hagen Coffee Roasters and the pastries are baked in house. It's also the downtown café that keeps going after work: open until 8 PM on weekdays, with wine and cocktails once the laptops close.
Mercurys Coffee Co.
Mercurys started in 1998 as a single coffee stand in a Woodinville parking lot and grew into one of the region's most-loved coffee companies, a repeat winner of KING 5's Best of Western Washington for coffee. It roasts its own organic coffee at its Bellevue roastery on NE 20th Street, and the City Center shop, which took over the old Starbucks space in December 2024, opens at 5 AM on weekdays, a short walk from the Bellevue Transit Center.
Best Tea & Matcha Downtown
Downtown Bellevue now has more tea houses than coffee roasters. These are the six we'd start with — the rest are in the directory.
Nana's Green Tea
Tokyo-born matcha café — matcha lattes, matcha parfaits, and Japanese light meals, open until 9 or later.
HEYTEA
The chain that invented cheese tea — jasmine tea under salted cheese foam; expect weekend lines.
CHICHA San Chen
Whole-leaf Taiwanese tea brewed to order — the Dong Ding oolong latte is the order.
Matcha Magic
Bellevue-founded, plant-forward matcha bar with toasts and açaí bowls.
Molly Tea
Jasmine and floral-scented milk teas — White Champaca is the signature.
CILO Lab
Brand new in September 2026: gelato made on site in tea flavors like Uji matcha, plus tea floats.
Bakery-Cafés
When the coffee needs a croissant, a scone, or a pineapple bun alongside it.
Belle Pastry
French pâtisserie since 2003 — espresso and a twice-baked almond croissant from 6 AM on weekdays.
Sconers
New in October 2025: hand-made buttermilk scones, sweet and savory, with a cream-top latte.
Paris Baguette
Korean-French bakery-café with Lavazza espresso, open 6 AM to 9 PM every day.
Sabine Café & Bar
New in July 2026: Ballard's Mediterranean all-day café — espresso, house pastries, and espresso martinis.
Farine Bakery & Café
Belgian-inspired breads, croissants, and waffles, with free two-hour garage parking.
Café Aloe
Specialty coffee with Hong Kong-style pastries — pineapple buns and bolo bao.
Coffee Early, Late, or With a Laptop
Downtown café hours follow the office week — here's who opens first, who stays open latest, and where to settle in.
Open Early
- 4 AM — Starbucks on NE 8th St across from Bellevue Square (4:30 at Main & Bellevue Way)
- 5 AM — Mercurys at City Center and Starbucks at Key Center (weekdays)
- 6 AM — Caffe Ladro (weekdays), Fonté at Bellevue Place, Belle Pastry (weekdays), Paris Baguette, Top Pot (weekdays)
Open Late
- 9 PM — Dote Coffee Bar (most nights), Nana's Green Tea, Paris Baguette
- 8 PM — Café Hagen (weekdays), Fonté at Bellevue Place (Mon–Sat)
- 10 PM — most boba shops, including CILO Lab and CoCo on weekends
Work or Study
- Third Culture Coffee — Wi-Fi, a community table, club chairs
- Story Coffee — roomy and plant-filled, a study favorite
- Capital One Café — two floors of open seating, no account needed
- Woods Coffee Lincoln Square — free Wi-Fi and a reservable meeting room
The Downtown Bellevue Coffee & Tea Directory
All 47 spots, A–Z, checked in September 2026. Hours shown are opening–closing (AM–PM); office-building cafés often close on weekends.
| Spot | Type | Location | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belle Pastry | Bakery-Café | 10373 Main St · Old Bellevue | Mon–Fri 6–5 · Sat 7–6 · Sun 7–5 |
| Bellden Cafe | Coffee | 10527 Main St · Old Bellevue | Daily 8–3 |
| BA Artisan Bakehouse | Bakery-Café | 550 106th Ave NE, Ste 102 · Bellevue Connection | Daily 8–6 |
| Café Aloe | Coffee & Pastry | 10961 NE 2nd Pl, Ste 100 | Thu–Tue 9–4 · closed Wed |
| Café Hagen | Coffee | 777 108th Ave NE · Symetra Center | Mon–Fri 7–8 · Sat–Sun 8–5 |
| Caffe Ladro | Coffee | 333 108th Ave NE · Tower 333 | Mon–Fri 6–5 · closed weekends |
| Caffè Vita at Beecher's | Coffee Counter | 575 Bellevue Way NE, Ste 126 · Bellevue Square | Mon–Sat 10–9 · Sun 11–7 |
| Capital One Café | Coffee | 400 Bellevue Way NE · Lincoln Square South | Mon–Sat 10–9 · Sun 11–7 |
| CHICHA San Chen | Tea & Boba | 188 Bellevue Square · Level 1 | Mon–Sat 10–9 · Sun 11–7:30 |
| Choo Tea | Tea & Boba | 155 108th Ave NE, #101 | Mon–Fri 11–8 · Sat–Sun 12–8 |
| CILO LabNew | Tea & Gelato | 550 106th Ave NE, Ste 150 · Bellevue Connection | Daily 11–10 |
| CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice | Tea & Boba | 11028 NE 8th St | Mon–Thu 12–9 · Fri–Sun 12–10 |
| Dilettante Mocha Café | Coffee & Chocolate | 10900 NE 8th St, Ste 120 · Plaza Center | Mon–Fri 6:30–2:30 |
| Dote Coffee Bar | Coffee & Chocolate | 500 Bellevue Way NE, 2nd fl · Lincoln Square South | Mon–Fri 7–9 · Sat 8–9 · Sun 8–7 |
| Farine Bakery & Café | Bakery-Café | 11194 NE 10th St | Daily 7–3 |
| Fonté Coffee | Coffee | 10500 NE 8th St · Bellevue Place | Mon–Sat 6–8 · Sun 6–5 |
| Fonté Café Civica Commons | Coffee | 225 108th Ave NE, Ste N120 | Mon–Thu 7–3 · Fri 7–12 |
| Fran's Chocolates | Drinking Chocolate | 10036 Main St · Old Bellevue | Mon–Sat 10:30–6 · Sun 11–6 |
| HEYTEA | Tea & Boba | 700 110th Ave NE, Ste 192 · The Bravern | Sun–Thu 11–10 · Fri–Sat 11–11 |
| Himalayan Coffee | Coffee | 411 108th Ave NE · One Bellevue Center | Mon–Fri 7–6 |
| Joe & The JuiceNew | Juice & Coffee | 575 Bellevue Square, Level 2 | Mon–Sat 8–9 · Sun 8–7 |
| L'Experience Paris | Bakery-Café | 258 106th Ave NE · Soma Towers | Mon–Tue 7–4 · Wed–Fri 7–10 · Sat 8–10 · Sun 8–4 |
| Macu Tea | Tea & Boba | 10435 NE 4th St | Sun–Thu 11–9 · Fri–Sat 11–9:30 |
| Matcha Magic | Matcha | 10246 Main St · Old Bellevue | Mon–Fri 8–4 · Sat–Sun 8–5 |
| Mercurys Coffee Co. | Coffee | 500 108th Ave NE · City Center Bellevue | Mon–Fri 5–6 · Sat–Sun 6–6 |
| Molly Tea | Tea & Boba | 103 Bellevue Way NE, #2 | Daily 11–10 |
| Nana's Green Tea | Matcha | 16 103rd Ave NE · Old Bellevue | Sun–Thu 10–9 · Fri–Sat 10–9:30 |
| Nordstrom Ebar | Coffee Counter | 100 Bellevue Square · inside Nordstrom | Mon–Sat 8–9 · Sun 9–7 |
| North of Main Cafe | Coffee | 115 112th Ave NE · The Watermark | Mornings from 7 · call ahead |
| OMO Thai Tea | Tea | 10226 NE 10th St | Daily 12–8 |
| Paris BaguetteNew | Bakery-Café | 931 108th Ave NE · Salesforce Tower | Daily 6–9 |
| Royal Bakehouse | Bakery-Café | 162 106th Ave NE | Mon–Fri 7–2 · Sat–Sun 8–4 |
| Sabine Café & BarNew | Bakery-Café | 10770 NE 8th St, Ste C · The Eight | Mon–Fri 8–6 · Sat–Sun 9–3 |
| Sano | Juice & Coffee | 453 106th Ave NE · Centre 425 | Mon–Fri 7–5 · Sat–Sun 9–7 |
| SconersNew | Bakery-Café | 10000 Main St, Ste 103 · Old Bellevue | Daily 8–7 |
| Semicolon Cafe | Coffee & Korean Café | 10451 NE 2nd St · One88 | Daily 8–5 |
| Starbucks (8 downtown) | Coffee Chain | 42 Bellevue Way NE · 10214 NE 8th St · Bellevue Square (Center Court + The Lodge) · Key Center, 601 108th Ave NE · inside QFC and Safeway · Courtyard by Marriott | Varies · NE 8th St from 4 AM, Main & Bellevue Way from 4:30 |
| Story Coffee | Coffee | 11011 NE 9th St, Ste B | Mon–Fri 7–6 · Sat–Sun 8–6 |
| T'Latte | Coffee & Tea | 37 103rd Ave NE, Ste B · Old Bellevue | Mon–Fri 7–5 · Sat–Sun 8–5 |
| TeaByDoNew | Tea & Boba | 1075 Bellevue Way NE, B-3 · Belgate Plaza | Daily 11–10 |
| The French Bakery | Bakery-Café | 909 112th Ave NE, Ste 106 | Mon–Thu 7–5 · Fri 7–6 · Sat–Sun 8–6 |
| Third Culture Coffee | Coffee | 80 102nd Ave NE · Old Bellevue | Mon–Thu 7–5 · Fri 7–6 · Sat 8–6 · Sun 8–5 |
| TOASTED. Bagels & Coffee | Coffee & Bagels | 278 106th Ave NE, Ste 102-A · Soma Towers | Daily 8–3 |
| Top Pot Doughnuts | Doughnuts & Coffee | 10600 NE 9th Pl | Mon–Fri 6–4 · Sat–Sun 7–4 |
| UG Tea | Matcha & Tea | 308 105th Ave NE | Daily 11–10 |
| Woods Coffee | Coffee | 2002 Bellevue Square, 2nd fl | Mon–Sat 8–9 · Sun 9–7 |
| Woods Coffee Lincoln Square | Coffee | 700 Bellevue Way NE, Ste 140 | Mon–Fri 7–7 · Sat 8–9 · Sun 9–7 |
Questions Locals Actually Get
What is the best coffee shop in Downtown Bellevue?
For the coffee itself, Caffe Ladro and Dote Coffee Bar — both roast their own beans. For a café to linger in, Third Culture Coffee across from Downtown Park. For a café with a mission, Bellden Cafe on Old Main Street. Café Hagen and Mercurys round out our six Editor's Picks.
What coffee shops are new in Bellevue?
Since 2024: Mercurys Coffee Co. at City Center Bellevue (December 2024), Sconers on Main Street (October 2025), Paris Baguette at Salesforce Tower (January 2026), Joe & The Juice at Bellevue Square (February 2026), Sabine Café & Bar at The Eight (July 2026), and CILO Lab at The Bellevue Connection (September 2026).
Which Bellevue coffee shops are good for working or studying?
Third Culture Coffee has free Wi-Fi, a community table, and comfortable chairs. Story Coffee is roomy and popular with students. Capital One Café at Lincoln Square South has two floors of open seating, and Woods Coffee at Lincoln Square has free Wi-Fi and a reservable meeting space.
Where can I get coffee early in Downtown Bellevue?
The Starbucks on NE 8th Street across from Bellevue Square opens at 4 AM, and the one at Main Street and Bellevue Way at 4:30. For independent coffee, Mercurys at City Center Bellevue opens at 5 AM on weekdays (6 AM weekends). Caffe Ladro, Fonté at Bellevue Place, Belle Pastry, Paris Baguette, and Top Pot Doughnuts open at 6 AM.
Which coffee shops are open late in Bellevue?
Dote Coffee Bar at Lincoln Square South is open until 9 PM most nights, as is Nana's Green Tea. Café Hagen and Fonté at Bellevue Place stay open until 8 PM on weekdays, and most downtown boba shops pour until 9 or 10 PM.
Where can I get coffee near Bellevue Square?
Inside Bellevue Square: Woods Coffee (second floor), Nordstrom Ebar, Caffè Vita at Beecher's, two Starbucks, and CHICHA San Chen for tea. Across Bellevue Way, Dote Coffee Bar and Capital One Café are in Lincoln Square South, and Fonté is at Bellevue Place.
How often is this guide updated?
Every listing was checked in September 2026 against the business's own website or current listings, and the directory is reviewed quarterly. Hours change without notice — confirm before a special trip.