Gracenote Coffee Roasters

Gracenote Coffee is a Boston specialty roaster and café with an espresso-forward identity built around origin transparency and processing methodology. Operating out of the Leather District near South Station, the roaster eventually expanded to a second location at High Street Place, where its commitment to sourcing philosophy carried over to an expanded drinks program that now includes spiked coffees and wine alongside the core espresso menu. Founder and founding year are not publicly documented.

Gracenote's presence in Boston's specialty coffee scene was documented as early as 2017, when the Leather District location drew attention from coffee-focused publications for its espresso program and café atmosphere. The High Street Place expansion represents a deliberate broadening of the guest experience without abandoning the roaster's sourcing priorities — the menu addition of alcohol was positioned as an extension of the same producer-focused curation applied to green coffee.

The roasting program centers on origin and processing as primary quality signals. Gracenote has sourced naturals from Ethiopia — including the Misty Valley lot, a benchmark natural-process coffee from the Yirgacheffe region known for its fruit-forward profile — suggesting an orientation toward expressive, process-driven lots. The company also distributes through wholesale channels, with its coffee available at various Boston-area cafés, indicating a roasting operation that serves both direct-to-consumer and trade accounts.