There's a reason why Raging Sage keeps coming back as Tucson's Best Local Coffee Roaster: The folks there roast their beans four or five times a week, selling about 14 different varieties to many other coffeehouses in town, and shipping it all over the world. Even if you don't take a bag of their coffee home, you can sit with other coffee-lovers out on their Campbell Avenue coffeehouse's shady patio, or inside. If the smell of roasted beans isn't enough for you, perhaps the amazing desserts in the dessert case will do the trick. Life is too short to give up coffee and sugar, and Raging Sage seems to understand that philosophy.
Runners up:
2. Caffe Luce
943 E. University Blvd., No. 191
207-5504
4205 N. Campbell Ave., No. 125
395-0266
5350 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 174
747-3200