Velo Coffee Roasters
Southside · 509 E Main St, Chattanooga, TN
What stood out: Sixteen Years on East Main Street, Documented at Each Step
Where we have evaluated coffee
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Chattanooga: 26 independent coffee shops were screened for the 2026 award, and 3 are named here. We do not publish assessments of the shops we did not recognise.
Goodman Coffee Roasters
1110 Market St Suite 116, Chattanooga, TN (+ St. Elmo)
Recognised for the breadth of its published sourcing — named producers and lots across some fifteen origins, with direct farm relationships described by its co-owner — and for a Chattanooga roasting lineage reaching back to 1996, with two cafes, one connected to its roastery.
Mad Priest Coffee Roasters
1200 McCallie Ave, Chattanooga, TN
Recognised for the only recognised-body result on a coffee produced in CoffeeLabAdvisor's evaluated field — a 2022 Good Food Awards coffee winner for a single Yemeni lot — together with a Roast Magazine 2023 Micro Roaster of the Year finalist listing and the record-setting 2023 Best of Yemen top-lot purchase documented by Daily Coffee News.
How this works
We evaluate independent specialty coffee shops on coffee quality only — how the coffee is sourced, roasted and made. No food criteria, no chains, and no shop pays to be here. In each city we screen the independent field, name one winner and publish why it won, and recognise a small number of honorable mentions for what each of them does well.
We do not publish an assessment of a coffee shop we did not recognise. Naming a business and characterising it in a judgement it never asked for is not something we will do, so the rest of each field stays out of public view. We say how many shops were screened, because that describes our method rather than any business.
This page holds no locations and measures no distances. It answers by city, by state and by region, from the awards we have published — so when we recognise coffee in another city, it appears here.
Which cities has CoffeeLabAdvisor evaluated coffee shops in?
We have evaluated specialty coffee in 16 US cities across 14 states: Albuquerque, Boston, Chattanooga, Columbus, Denver, Fayetteville, Grand Rapids, Greenville, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Louisville, Nashville, Olympia, Omaha, St. Louis and Tulsa.
Does this find coffee shops near my exact location?
No. We do not ask for your location and we do not calculate distances. You tell us where you are and we show what we have evaluated in that city, or in that state, or in that region. Every city we cover is listed on the page, so you can see straight away whether yours is one of them.
What does an Honorable Mention mean?
It is positive recognition of a coffee shop on its own terms, alongside the city’s winner. We publish what each one was recognised for. We do not publish assessments of shops that were screened and not recognised.
Do you rank the coffee shops?
We name one winner per city and its honorable mentions, and we publish why the winner won. We do not publish a ranked list or a score for coffee shops.
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