Eclipse Coffee & Books

Montevallo, United States

4.1

Closed now

12 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards
Free Wi-Fi

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Telephone:
+1 205-665-4234
Website:
www.eclipsecoffee.com
Address:
1032 Main St, Montevallo, AL, 35115
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Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Breakfast, Lunch, Late Night
Parking
Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Noise Level
Quiet
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
Free
Has TV
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 7:00 am – 10:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Montevallo) 00:40 Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 7:00 am – 10:00 pm
Tuesday 7:00 am – 10:00 pm
Wednesday 7:00 am – 10:00 pm
Thursday 7:00 am – 12:00 am
Friday 7:00 am – 12:00 am
Saturday 8:00 am – 10:00 pm
Sunday –

Description

Specialties

Come and enjoy yourself in a casual friendly environment.

Eclipse serves breakfast, lunch and dinner 6 days a week and offers a wide variety of products and services, from our soups, salads, sandwiches, milkshakes, and desserts to our new and used books to our full bar. We have monthly Trivia Nights and Wine Tastings and a variety of live music and spoken word events.

Our goal is to offer a comfortable place for anyone to eat, read, listen to music or just plain sit around. We have a spacious dining room, 3 rooms of books and a fabulous wrap-​around porch. We have free wireless internet access accessible from anywhere inside or on the porch. We are happy to reserve tables for groups and we host all sorts of special events.

Happy Hours every Thursday and Friday afternoon from 3 – 7 p.m.

History

Established in 2001.

We started out hoping to be a Bookstore and Coffee Shop about a week after the 9⁄11 attacks. It was a bad time to start a business, but the town was enthiusiastic about our little shop and we were off and running.

After a time, we discovered that we were going to sell more food than anything else, from our soups to our special sandwiches like Grilled Chicken Salad or Pimiento Cheese to our famous milkshakes, which were featured in Birmingham Magazine’s 100 Best in Birmingham issue.

We have wine by the bottle to go, and hold monthly wine tastings, and we have music and poetry slams often and a we host a Trivia Contest with a cash prize every month.

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12 reviews of Eclipse Coffee & Books

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Place rating: 1
Calera, AL
There were 4 or 5 people working, no line or customers. .and it took 5 minutes for anyone to acknowledge me. I ordered a muffin (warmed) and double shot coffee to go .and after waiting quite a while, with kids & hubby waiting outside, I finally had to ask if someone would please make my espresso shots for the coffee. I had to ask twice for the muffin to be warmed also. Very poor customer service! Decent food & coffee.
Place rating: 4
Abingdon, MD
While traveling to Alabama, I took my Mom here for lunch. The food was very fresh and the atmosphere relaxed and welcoming. I would definitely recommend this place to others.
Place rating: 5
Jacksonville, FL
Very affordable and delicious breakfast or lunch! Definitely a place to check out if you are in the area. I love the atmosphere in this place and very friendly staff.
Place rating: 1
Helena, AL
Ridiculous. We got here for breakfast and were told they couldn’t do pancakes today unless they ran out of biscuits. We ordered pretty easy egg dishes instead… It has been over an hour… still no food. We checked again and they said they only had one toaster working. Not a great impression after hearing wonderful things.
Place rating: 5
Alabaster, AL
The food is great and there is a nice selection of drinks to choose from, but that’s not why you drive all the way into Montevallo to come here; it’s the people that are here. Eclipse is a book store and coffee shop at heart, but like a heart the body has out grown it. It’s a must stop when you are out this way.
Place rating: 5
Montevallo, AL
I love this place. Nowhere else in Montevallo can you find delicious food, interesting cocktails, live music, books, a wraparound porch full of friendly people, trivia nights, poetry readings, and community events all in one place. I highly recommend the milkshakes, quesadillas, paninis, and salads. They have a great beer selection, too. The owners are local, and they care about the community and nearby University of Montevallo. Eclipse is the heart of the town.
Place rating: 5
Maylene, AL
This is a really killer coffee shop. Its way out of the way for me, but I drive out there whenever I need to grab a sandwhich, coffee and get some work done. The place has a great vibe, the food is good, and the coffee is too.
Place rating: 5
Birmingham, AL
One of my favorite haunts in Montevallo is Eclipse, with its expansive and very Southern, covered, wraparound porch. The college-​artist targeted coffee house serves a healthy lunch alternative to fast food in a hipster-​gone-​granola atmosphere. Grab a book from the library, and a micro brew beer, and check out the local art for sale before dining with professors. Love it!
Place rating: 3
Montgomery, AL
The food is just okay (I had the roast beef panini), but this is the kind of place you go to more for the atmosphere than anything else. You probably would never come across it if you didn’t live in the area, it’s a little off the beaten path. Quaint hipster joint that makes you want to hang out for a while. Good free wifi signal.
Place rating: 5
Louisville, KY
I grew up in Montevallo and have seen plenty of restaurants, bars, and shops come and go. (Not because there are a lot of them in the city — quite the contrary — but because they have so frequently been a standard A, B, C.) For those who have ever spent more than a day in Montevallo, the city is anything but granola. And that’s exactly why Eclipse works there.
How many places do you know of that are known for their coffee? And their sandwiches. Their pasta salad. And milkshakes. Beer selection. Creative mixed drinks. Eclectic used book selection — rooms full. Poetry night. It is a bit ridiculous considering it is simply an old house — turn shop.
Having moved on to bigger and bigger cities, at the end of the day this is one place in my hometown I have a soft spot for. When I’m visiting the fam 10 years from now I hope I can still wander in and grab a Yuengling and peruse the books. Talk to random friendly folks. Life is good.
Place rating: 5
Millbrook, AL
Went on a Friday night at 11 pm. Absolutely loved this in the middle of nowhere piece of Heaven!!! It’s an old house with Christmas lights around the outside. They serve coffee, lattes, wine, beer and food. There is inside seating and out. On this particularly humid Alabama night, we ventured outside for a smoke. We had to walk through the house where we saw a room set-​up as a library, a playroom, a hangout room. Then we went out the front door to a classic wrap around country porch with tables, well-​fed stray cats, local artsy college students playing guitars, spontaneous sing-​a-​longs, people drinking coffee, beer, wine. This place was perfect. I loved the hipster, hippy feel. Open, eclectic crowd. Service was friendly, swift and my latte was delicious!
Place rating: 5
Dot Lake, AK
Nice people, great sandwiches and tea. The wide front porch is the perfect place to enjoy a morning drink.