Best Coffee Shop
Misha’s Coffeehouse and Coffee Roaster
102 South Patrick St.
Alexandria, VA
(703) 548-4089
The folks at Misha’s buy only hand-picked, single-origin beans from the best coffee-producing regions in the world. I mean, what more do you need to know? How ’bout this: Misha’s roasts all its exquisite beans right on site. Still not satisfied? Did you know that Misha’s makes its own coffee blends from the beans it buys and roasts? And if that weren’t enough, Misha’s, despite its fussy approach to a cuppa joe, sports a relaxed neighborhood vibe in Old Town Alexandria. Customers can walk across the black-and-white checkered floor and reach into the old-timey fridge to grab their own milk. Or they can just chill in the roasting room, where they can smoke, play cards, and mock all the nerds chained to their laptops and lattes in the nonsmoking section. Misha’s offers a little something for everyone, including one solid cup of coffee.
—Melissa McCart
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Comments
12:57 pm
Acknowledging that D.C. is coffee-knowledgeable town, I still think it is pretty sad that the City Paper would identify Misha's as the best coffee house around. There are several shops in and around D.C. that roast their own coffee, such as the Java House, Sidamo and Beanetics, not to mention shops that buy coffee from specialty roaster with national reputations, such as Tryst, Murky's, and Big Bear Cafe. The proprietors of each of those establishments have probably forgotten more about coffee than the owners of misha's ever bothered to try and learn. Roasting your own coffee shouldn't be a marketing gimmick, but unfortunately at Misha's that is just what it is.
12:46 pm
Setting aside the absurdity of a "best" anything, Misha's is certainly my favorite. The coffee, cappuccino, and espressos are really good. Sure, at some of the recent hard core coffee-geek places they can recite the molecular weight of each of their beans and tell you the side of the hill that it was grown on, but Misha's still makes great coffee, as it has no for many years. It's more of a working man's (...in the Old Town sense anyway) non-fussy, no nonsense pick me up stop - the place that was roasting and serving quality coffee long before it became cool...which is so cool.
1:15 pm
Granted, Misha's does serve top-quality coffee. Unfortunately it is horribly stale by the time they get around to brewing it. I don't need to know the molecular weight of the beans, but it's hard to trust any roaster that can't or won't tell you when they roasted the beans. It's also hard to take seriously the comments of someone not willing to use their own name.
4:33 pm
Misha's has good coffee. I have never had a problem with their coffee being "stale." I don't understand the need for a "roasted on" date if you can trust your roaster to keep a fresh stock of beans. The reason I love Misha's is that they are down to earth and honest, and it saddens me that their integrity is going unappreciated in these comments.