It started in 1994 with one coffeehouse on Portland’s Congress Street. Today Coffee By Design operates three coffeehouses in Portland and one in Freeport and runs a thriving coffee roastery in Portland, which sells to nearly 600 wholesale and mail order customers around the globe.
Coffee By Design started in 1994 with a single coffeehouse on Portland's Congress Street, and now operates three Portland cafes plus one in Freeport alongside a Portland roastery that supplies nearly 600 wholesale and mail-order customers worldwide. The Maine roots and the international reach coexist in a way that's rare in specialty coffee — local enough to anchor neighborhoods, scaled enough to take the work seriously. A Greater Portland institution that's quietly become a Maine coffee leader.
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