If you haven't stopped in The Storehouse Coffee & Gifts on the Public Square in Leitchfield, you're…read moremissing one of those places that reminds you why supporting local businesses is so much fun.
First, the building itself is worth seeing. From the outside, it fits beautifully into our historic downtown square, but once you walk through the door you really get the full effect, old exposed brick, wood floors, huge windows, comfortable couches, tables, and even an upstairs loft seating area. It feels less like a coffee shop and more like somebody turned a cool old downtown building into your living room.
And then you see the drink menu.
If you're the type of person who says, "I don't really like coffee," I'm not sure that excuse is going to work here. They have the regular brewed coffee, cold brew and espresso drinks, lattes, mochas, Americanos, cappuccinos, macchiatos and frappes. They also have chai, hot tea, hot chocolate, refreshers, smoothies and other non-coffee choices.
Then comes the flavor selection. Looking at that wall is almost intimidating. Caramel, cinnamon bun, cookie butter, toasted marshmallow, pumpkin spice, raspberry, coconut, Irish cream, white chocolate...the list keeps going. They also have a surprisingly large selection of sugar-free flavors and several milk choices, including almond, oat and coconut.
In other words, if you can't invent a drink you like from this menu, you may just not be thirsty.
The coffee itself was really good, but what impressed me almost as much was the atmosphere. This is a place where you can actually sit down, drink your coffee and enjoy yourself instead of feeling like you need to grab your cup and get out of the way. Bring a friend, have a conversation, get some work done, or just claim one of those couches and forget what time it is.
Storehouse Coffee is exactly the kind of locally owned place I like seeing on our town square. Good coffee, friendly people, a ton of choices, and they've taken a beautiful old downtown space and made it somewhere people actually want to gather.