Tipico Coffee

With an out-of-the-way location in a leafy residential area, Tipico is the best-established of the Lower West Side's hipster coffeeshops: if you can't make it to the shop, you'll find their coffee poured at restaurants all over Buffalo. If you can make it there, the experience is a mixed bag: thumbs up for the coffee itself (locally roasted and served in both drip and pour-over iterations; smooth, full-bodied and above all strong); thumbs down for high prices and omnipresent flies (the latter an unfortunate side effect of keeping the floor-to-ceiling windows open in summer); "meh" for a pleasant but grungy ambience (chipped flatware and dusty tabletops are almost the rule rather than the exception).

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Address

128 Fargo Ave.

Getting there

Metro Bus 3, 5, 22 or 40

Hours

Mon-Fri 6AM-9PM, Sat 7AM-9PM, Sun 7AM-8PM

Phone

(716) 331-3954

Website

tipicocoffee.com (opens in a new tab)