Ashgrove

Coffee & a corner table
Portland, Maine

Line drawing of the café front: a scalloped awning, two big windows and a door, with people at the sidewalk tables

Open from seven, every day. Filter coffee, proper sandwiches, and a corner table you are welcome to sit at for as long as you like.

Coffee

Filter$3.80

Changes every few weeks

Espresso$3.20

Our own blend, all year

Flat white$4.60
Cortado$4.20
Iced filter$4.40

From April

Bag of beans$18

12 oz, roasted this week

Kitchen

Sourdough toast$5.50

Butter and jam, or honey

Eggs on toast$9.50

Scrambled or fried

Grilled ham and cheese$11

On our own bread

Soup of the day$9

With bread, until it runs out

Cheese scone$4.50

Warm, from ten

Cake$5.50

Two or three each day

The kitchen runs from eight until three. After three there is still cake, and there is always bread to take home if we have any left.

See the full menu

The coffee

One espresso blend all year and a filter that changes every few weeks. Roasted in Biddeford, twenty miles down the coast, and never more than ten days old.

Beans to take home
EspressoAshgrove HouseBrazil and Colombia. Chocolatey and forgiving with milk.
Filter, this weekKirinyaga AAKenyan, washed. Blackcurrant, quite bright.
Roasted byMarram, BiddefordTwenty miles down the coast. We collect on Tuesdays.

The room

Thirty-two seats across two rooms, plus a handful of tables on the sidewalk once the weather turns.

The front room, wooden tables in warm window light

The front

The front room, by the big window. Warm in the morning, and usually full by nine.

The back room, a long communal table with a laptop and a latte

The back

Quieter, with a long table for six and most of the outlets. Good for a laptop or a slow conversation.

Small tables on the sidewalk outside the café with coffee and a pastry

Outside

Six tables on Ash Street, April to October. Dogs are welcome, and so is lingering.

Good to know

Questions people ask

Line drawing of a laptop on a table, plugged into an outlet, beside a cup of coffee

Can I work from Ashgrove with a laptop?

Yes. Laptops are welcome all day in the back room, which has the outlets and the long table. From eleven until two we keep the front room for people eating.

Is there wifi?

Yes, free wifi in both rooms. Ask at the counter for the password.

When is it quietest?

Weekdays before nine and after two. On weekends it is busy from nine until two, so come early or late in the afternoon.

Can I bring my dog?

Dogs are welcome at the sidewalk tables from April to October. Inside, service dogs only.

Is it wheelchair accessible?

Yes. The side door on Ash Street is step-free. We take card or cash.

Finding us

Address

41 Ash Street

Portland, ME 04101

Hours

Seven until four

Every day

Kitchen 8–3

Good to know

Dogs outside only

Step-free at the side door

Card or cash

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