Urbana Coffee Works, Amarillo

Amarillo is home to several styles of coffee shop. There are the big nationwide chains, where baristas quickly whip up blended coffee drinks to go, and then there are smaller, locally owned shops like Evocation, where coffee is sourced from specific farms and carefully roasted to bring out subtle flavors. This is the type of coffee you savor, lingering inside the shop while you sip. Urbana Coffee is a hybrid of these two types of coffeehouses.

For coffee lovers, Urbana brews a variety of imported single-origin roasts using special apparatus, including a special house blend created by Evocation's micro-roastery. For caffeine junkies and busy professionals, it has a drive-up window and two types of batch brew. It also whips up two different sandwiches for lunch every weekday and has a daily selection of pastries crafted by local bakery Taste Dessert Bar.