Uptown Coffee Company

This is my favorite coffee shop in Marion! They have the best coffee. I love going and getting their iced lattes and a Donutland donut. This time, I got an iced honey lavender latte and a cherry donut. They have high-quality coffee with amazing flavor! The staff are welcoming and friendly. They have multiple drink and food options. I would love to go back and try more! Highly recommend!

This place is our favorite place to get or Sunday coffee ritual. They have the best overnight oats we’ve ever had and they make the coffee just the way we like it! I like to wait for my drinks and watch them make it because it’s so fun to see how it’s done! We commend you all keep doing what you’re doing!

Always a great place for coffee and the breakfast sandwiches are delicious but their donuts ROCK!

It's the best coffee place in Marion. Super friendly staff, great atmosphere (I use the bar area to study), high quality coffee, solid food options for both sweet and savory. They have discounts for bringing your own mug, bicycling, and a punch card toward free beverages.

Uptown coffee is one of the best coffee shops in the CR area. Their coffee is fantastic and their staff is always super friendly and welcoming.
Their breakfast burritos are our favorite thing to order with our coffee.
Don't forget your own To go mug for a discount or ride your bike in too!

Overview - We started visiting Uptown Coffee Company almost a year ago. When it comes to excellent Espresso, consistency, food options for most anyone, and exemplary smiling staff, this is our go-to location! Out of Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, and Iowa City (we lucked out living only 5 minutes away). We usually visit at least five times a week. Need I say more? Don’t worry, I will ;) More detail below!

Espresso Rating

I love the darker roasted beans for My espresso, and Uptown does not disappoint! It’s consistent, and I can always depend on the same drink quality. My go-to is a Vanilla Latte with Oatmilk. Depending on how rough of a day it has been, I’ll add another shot, and all is made right. Some would say I have A obsessive coffee disorder.

If you would like to have a fruitier/lighter roasted Espresso experience, they also offer that! Pretty cool, right!

Staff Experience

Okay. Like how do you get such amazing people!? It shows that Uptown Owners Lexi and Rex have fantastic skills for selecting extraordinary employees. Each one of them (Seth, Auri, Vivian, Jori, Katy, Sophie, sorry if I misspelled any of those!) greet my family with smiles and know our drinks by memory.

Location feel and atmosphere

I absolutely love the feel of this location. You have a beautiful quaint coffee shop in the front. From amazing crown molding and rustic floors to unique art in the back area (you can walk through the double doors where the deer head is and enjoy your coffee or food in the pub area, Uptown Snug, they will even bring you your drink or food) which just gives so much more space and includes games our kids love to play! Especially Skip-Bo.

We also love your online ordering system for when we are in a rush :)!

Food

I love that they support other small local businesses with great food choices like bread from Great Harvest, honey, or even those sought-after donutland doughnuts. It’s pretty unusual to find a Coffee location that balances individual/family experience so well.

If I were to recommend one of my favorite breakfast items, the bacon panini with veggies would be one of my go-to items. I was also recently introduced to the “Dirty Elvis,” Check it out for lunch sometime, I won’t ruin the surprise, but it’s worth it ;)!

To sum this up, it’s the best coffee experience I have had at a coffee location in my entire life. I have been blessed to travel all over the Unites States, as well as other countries, and I am blown away daily by the consistent experience that I know I will get. A cup of joy to start my day out that never disappoints.

Thank you so much, Uptown Coffee Company, for creating a great experience for not only myself but my entire family!

We pop in occasionally and every time the staff is very nice and helpful they even serve donutland donuts here! It’s nice having this on this side of town! Great coffee and donuts 5/5 for uptown coffee!

A nice coffee shop and bar. We had coffee drinks that were good. The bar was equally nice. We didn't eat. The service was friendly and prompt. A good experience.

This place has a new ish coffee called the Mocha Twist and the iced version is one of the best coffees I have ever had. It is a mocha and orange flavored drink it's amazing. Plus the location is so quant. I love it here.

They have the strongest and best iced coffee in Marion. Plus their homemade syrups are amazing! And they have Donut Land donuts(yum) Sorry Starbucks won’t be returning!

Housemade syrups, excellent coffee and lattes, donuts, and light fare foods. Nice place to grab and go or sit for a while.

Perfect location for this cute coffee shop!
It is adorable, and there are a few seats to sit at inside. There is a coffee shop in the front and bar in the back. I will definitely come here again when I’m back in town.

Just a photo of my coffee cup edge! Why? Because hubby and I already demolished our breakfast food and drank our coffees. I do t put syrups in mine, but I love that they make their own syrups. Also, the food is fresh, beautiful, great ingredients and yummy. The staff is super friendly. We sat outside. What a lovely way to start our day.

This is my favorite coffee in town and is very close to where I work (which is an expensive habit that I am willing to support)
I love that they switch out their flavored syrups regularly and that they are handmade and creative with their flavors too.
The staff is always friendly and the atmosphere is inviting as well.

I finally found a local shop that has quality syrups and can nail an iced latte to my liking perfectly. M

Con: I live in Texas. 🙃

I adore this coffee shop. I’ve probably visited about 15 times, and I’ve never been disappointed. The coffee is high quality and absolutely delicious. The Donutland donuts are fresh and soft. And the veggie frittata w/ a light side salad - amazing.

Cutest little coffee shop! The donuts are excellent and extremely soft! I had the birthday cake cake donut and an iced london fog that was ON POINT. They also had complimentary handmade face masks.

Coffee, food, kombucha, and service were all top notch. Would recommend and will return.

The atmosphere is 10/10 amazing! The staff was super helpful and were quick. I got the chai tea latte and it was perfect. Can’t wait to come back!

I’ve stopped in while visiting a few times now and I wish we had a location closer to where I live because this place is amazing!

The coffee is brewed incredibly well and is so so smooth and flavorful, you can tell there is a lot of effort that goes into sourcing high quality, and well roasted beans. Also, the panini I ordered was absolutely delicious. Completely blows your run of the mill coffee shops out of the water.

I have never had bad service here and love the plants they have up giving it such a homey and calming aesthetic.

I definitely recommend!