Copper & Bloom Coffee House was born in the kitchen of Maeve Calloway — a former pastry chef from Savannah who moved to Charleston in 2014 with two suitcases, a hand-me-down espresso machine, and an embarrassingly strong opinion about the city's coffee scene. After years of sourcing beans for restaurant menus and quietly perfecting her roasting process on weekends, Maeve stopped waiting for someone else to open the café she wanted to sit in every day.

In 2018, she signed a lease on a narrow brick building just off Meeting Street, painted the door terracotta, and opened Copper & Bloom to a line of twelve people — eight of whom were her friends, but still. Six years later, the line is longer, the menu changes with the seasons, and Maeve still roasts every batch herself on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. If you smell something incredible coming from the back, that's probably why.

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