WILLOUGHBY'S COFFEE & TEA
Sourcing the World's Finest Coffee
Quality, Freshness, Value
We are a coffee roasting company with one seemingly simple goal: to produce the finest, freshest, most skillfully roasted coffee beans available anywhere - Serious Coffee.®
Your quality food establishment, restaurant or office
can benefit from our freshly roasted coffee.
Head here to let us know how we can help.
Serious Select
limited edition coffees.
This program offers exceptional and scarce coffees. Each week we offer prestigious coffees, each unique and in very limited supply. These coffees roast and ship same day, once per week.
Panama Elida Estate Typica Natural
We have offered coffee from Panama Elida Estate for several years, and last crop year was no exception, despite the smaller crop sizes throughout Panama. We are continually impressed by the care and thought that goes into the farm's processing methods, but we are not the only ones to take notice. Elida made headlines this year at the Best of Panama Competition (which we attended), where two of their coffee lots broke world records for the highest prices paid for coffee (per pound). Their Geisha Green Tip Washed sold for $661.00/lb at auction, and their Geisha Green Tip Natural sold for a whopping $803.00/lb. This Typica Natural, while much more reasonably priced, still shows the flavor and processing care that has made Elida so famous. This varietal had a tiny production, just a couple of bags, so we bought as much of it as we were able.
Home Brewing: Grinders & Scales
If you are seeking to easily make delicious and consistent coffee every time you brew then there are a couple of things you can do to make this a reality.
Coffee Varietals Explained
Like different grape varieties that are used in making wine, the myriad kinds of apples and tomato variations available in your local green grocer, coffee has a significant family of seed varieties.
We are proud to sponsor the 2018-19 Yale Repertory Theatre located across the street from our York Street store. Next full show is "Good Faith" 2/1 through 2/23. Enjoy our complimentary coffee during intermission!
Featured Products
Here are several coffees and other products that we feel may be of special interest to you.
Product Spotlight
Jamaica Blue Mountain Juniper Peak microlot
Cup Characteristics: Classic Jamaica Blue cup. Smooth, sweet and very clean. Full body, very well balanced, delicate. Signature, naturally smoky note with flavors of chocolate and honey. Floral, hint of rosewater, mildly acidic. Long, dry white wine finish.
$45.00
Customer Testimonials
See what our happy customers are saying about Willoughby's Coffee & Tea.
Kevin - Madison, CT
Letter to New Haven Register Sept 12, 2013. "Businesses can learn from Willoughby's". It gives me great pleasure to know that a quality local business of which I have been a longtime supporter is as good as - if not better than - I thought it was......
Adam - Afghanistan
I'm now a senior Navy officer serving in Afghanistan. Many of my friends are sending me Willoughby's coffee in care packages, and it is the biggest morale boost we get here! All the guys in my unit are now hooked. Just thought you might like to know that you have a
following here in Afghanistan!......
Hector - Killingworth, CT
Great customer service you will forever have our business......
Awards & Recognitions
Thanks to the CTNOW readers !
May, 2014
Winner in 5 categories of 2014 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll
Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans - Best Coffee House - Best Coffee Shop
Best Place to Buy Loose Tea - Best Tea House
June, 2013
New Haven Living - Best of New Haven
Best Coffee Shop 2013. "That roasting aroma by the courthouses is Willoughby’s, brewing java and steeping teas since Radiohead met at prep school. Also pouring at the Yale School of Architecture".
May, 2013
Winner in three categories of 2013 New Haven Advocate Readers' Poll
Best Place to Buy Coffee Beans - Best Coffee House - Best Place to Buy Loose Tea
March, 2013
Awards from the Connecticut Specialty Food Association
1st place in the Organic category for Sumatra Mandheling Organic French Roast, 2nd place award in Outstanding Beverage Category for Ethiopia Yrgacheffe Kochere GR1.