Georgia Independent Coffee
Find the best independent coffee shops in Georgia
Every independent café in Georgia organized by city and neighborhood. No chains.
Featured Neighborhoods
Dunwoody
Dunwoody Park
Dunwoody Park is the professional heart of Dunwoody — a mixed office and retail corridor anchored by Dunwoody Park Plaza, positioned between the city's residential neighborhoods and the Perimeter Center business district. Lucky Goat Coffee is the standout independent here: the go-to for remote workers, Perimeter-area professionals, and parents on school runs who won't settle for the chain options that dominate this suburb.
2 independent cafés
Dunwoody
Perimeter Center
Perimeter Center is Dunwoody's commercial core — a dense cluster of high-rise office buildings, the Perimeter Mall, and major corporate campuses including State Farm's regional headquarters. Ashford Dunwoody Road and Hammond Drive form the main commercial grid, served by both the Dunwoody and Medical Center MARTA stations. The area draws tens of thousands of workers daily, with a restaurant and retail ecosystem built almost entirely around that weekday population.
1 independent cafés
Dunwoody
Dunwoody Village
Dunwoody Village is the closest thing Dunwoody has to a historic town center — a walkable commercial strip anchored by Dunwoody Village Shoppes along Dunwoody Village Parkway. The Dunwoody Farmhouse, a pre-Civil War structure, anchors the area's sense of local history, and the Spruill Center for the Arts brings exhibitions and classes that draw residents from across the city. Restaurants, specialty shops, and independent businesses give this corridor a neighborhood-scaled character that the Perimeter end of the city lacks.
4 independent cafés
Flowery Branch
Spout Springs Crossing
Spout Springs Crossing is the retail hub serving Flowery Branch's rapidly expanding residential communities — a growing commercial node where the subdivisions spreading west from Lake Lanier do their shopping, eating, and increasingly, their coffee. Lucky Goat is the quality independent option here: house-roasted specialty coffee in a corridor that didn't have a serious independent before they arrived.
2 independent cafés
About This Directory
Independent coffee shops are where communities actually happen — the places you walk to on a Saturday morning, where the money you spend stays in the neighborhood. We built this directory to make them easier to find.
We organize by neighborhood because that's how people actually live. Every neighborhood page goes deep on what the coffee scene is like, who's there, and what makes it worth the visit. No national chains. Every listing is independently owned and operated.