ACE Coffee Roasters sells its numbered ACE NO.9, NO.10 and NO.OO roasts from four Edmonton locations, including a West Ritchie roastery with an on-site training classroom. It also stocks La Marzocco, Profitec and Breville espresso machines.
Best for ACE numbered coffee roasts and barista classes
Acquired Taste Tea Company, located on 124th Street in Edmonton, sells loose leaf teas and tea bags in varieties including Earl Grey, green, black, herbal, flavoured and oolong. The shop also carries teapots and gifts.
Run by the Alberta Craft Council, this Edmonton gallery shop stocks handcrafted pottery, blown and fused glass, jewellery, woodwork, fibre art and furniture from more than 150 Alberta-based makers. It represents emerging, mid-career and established artists side by side.
Audreys Books is an independent bookstore on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton, with a history under that name dating to 1975. The shop has long hosted author signings and served local readers, with the store itself forming part of the city's literary life. It is a place to browse books and follow author events rather than a specialist in one subject alone.
Best for Independent bookselling and author events in Edmonton
Carbon Environmental Boutique in Edmonton is a clean beauty, wellness and lifestyle boutique with an eco bulk refillery, a Farrow & Ball stockist, established in 2009.
Catfish Coffee is a small-batch Edmonton roaster selling exclusively from its Saturday stall at the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market. Its lineup includes named roasts like Yirg'Onna Love It and the blend Sucker Punch.
Best for Saturday-market small-batch Edmonton coffee
Choki is an Edmonton chocolatier making filled bars, barks, brittles, truffles and bonbons by hand, including a widely shared Dubai pistachio bar. The shop also does chocolate-dipped strawberries and custom pieces for events.
Colleen's is a small Edmonton chocolate maker turning out bars, salted-caramel truffles and chocolate-dipped pretzels, with pickup in the Calder neighbourhood. Vegan and gluten-free versions are offered at no extra cost, alongside chocolate-and-wine tastings.
Delavoye is a bean-to-bar maker crafting chocolate in a small Edmonton factory from beans sourced across cocoa-growing regions. The 124 Street shop and cafe sells single-origin bars, European drinking chocolate, confections and spreads.
Best for Single-origin bars, European drinking chocolate, confections and spreads
Founded in 2009 by Jacqueline Jacek, JACEK makes bonbons, bars and confections from ethically sourced cacao and runs boutiques across the Edmonton area, including Crestwood and St. Albert. Collections change seasonally and include vegan and gluten-free options.
Rogue Wave is an Edmonton roaster working single origins from Colombia, Panama and Ethiopia across washed, natural and honey processes. It is also the Canadian distributor for Origami, 1Zpresso and Orea brewing gear.
Best for Single-origin coffee across washed, natural and honey processes
Strathcona Spirits makes gin, vodka and whisky by traditional methods using local ingredients from its Old Strathcona micro-distillery. The line runs from ALTA gin and single-grain vodka to barrel-aged and whisky expressions.
Open since 1978 on 82 Avenue, The Edmonton Book Store deals in rare and out-of-print titles, with over 80,000 volumes strong on Western Canada, the Arctic, philosophy and literature. It is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada.
Poul Mark founded Transcend Coffee in 2006 and still roasts to order from Edmonton, shipping direct-trade beans across Canada. Its standing lineup includes the Argyll and Gateway blends and Vamos specialty instant coffee.
Best for Poul Mark founded Transcend Coffee in 2006 and still roasts to order
Poul Mark founded Transcend Coffee in 2006, and nearly two decades later the Edmonton roaster still roasts to order rather than to stock, shipping fresh beans within a few business days of a batch coming off the roaster. Two cafes, on 124 Street and in the Ritchie neighborhood, sell the same lots poured in-house - single origins from Ethiopia, Costa Rica, and Peru sit alongside the roastery's two standing blends, Argyll and Gateway, and a green, unroasted coffee option for home roasters. Transcend also makes Vamos, a specialty instant coffee produced from its own roasted beans rather than a generic freeze-dried base, extending the direct-trade sourcing it applies to its bagged coffee into a format meant for travel or an office desk. The company reports sustained customer volume - 256 verified reviews averaging 4.83 stars - built over years of shipping across Canada with free shipping thresholds for Alberta and the rest of the country. Between the two cafes and the mail-order roastery, Transcend has kept the same direct-trade sourcing language since Mark started the company in a city not typically associated with specialty coffee.