2024
Winner
Best Coffee Shop
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Best of the Bay
Voted by Creative Loafing readers across Tampa Bay.
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Awards
Kahwa Coffee won Best Coffee Shop in Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay 2024 readers' poll and was a Best Coffee Roaster finalist in 2025. Florida's largest independent coffee roaster since 2006, Kahwa runs 21 cafes, serves more than 800 wholesale partners including Publix, Tampa International Airport and Epcot, and roasts every order at its own St. Petersburg roastery.
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2025
Finalist
Best Coffee Roaster
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Best of the Bay
One of two finalists in the readers' poll for the region's best coffee roaster.
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2024
Finalist
Best Coffee and Best Coffee Roaster
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Best of the Bay
Finalist in both categories in the same year Kahwa won Best Coffee Shop.
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2026
Named
Best coffee shops in St. Pete
I Love the Burg
Listed first of twenty in the June 2026 guide to the best coffee shops in St. Petersburg.
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2025
Named
Sarasota's Best Coffee Shops
Sarasota Magazine
Kahwa's nitro cold brew was singled out in the magazine's guide to the area's best coffee shops.
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2008
Selected
House coffee selection
Chef Paul Bocuse, Chefs de France at Epcot
Chef Paul Bocuse chose Kahwa for his restaurant Chefs de France at Walt Disney World's Epcot, two years after Kahwa's founding.