Revelator Coffee Company

New Orleans, United States

4.4

Closed now

20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards
Free Wi-Fi

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Website:
revelatorcoffee.com
Address:
637 Tchoupitoulas St, New Orleans, LA, 70130
Warehouse District
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.3 miCanal Street Station
0.5 miBienville Station
0.7 miToulouse Station
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Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Accepts Apple Pay
Yes
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
Free
Good for Working
Yes

Today

Today 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (New Orleans) 02:56 Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Business hours

Monday 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Tuesday 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Wednesday 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Thursday 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Friday 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday 7:00 am – 6:00 pm

Description

Specialties

Our shop in the Warehouse District is dedicated to providing the very best quality products, served at the height of their flavor. Fresh goods from Gracious Bakery and healthy, convenience items by Greens-​to-​Go and City Greens are brought in each day. We celebrate seasonality, but we don’t want to overwhelm our customers. We want to approach coffee the way wine is approached.

On-​street parking is available. A public lot is also located across the street with access from Commerce Street. Search the store on Instagram via #RevelatorNOLA, or follow our store page on Facebook for specific menu items and updates.

History

Established in 2015.

Our store on Tchoup holds a special place in our hearts. Revelator Coffee Company started in New Orleans, and though we’ve moved headquarters, the city courses through the soul of this company. From the hand-​painted logo by Mystic Blue Signs to the vibrant personalities behind the bar, the details of this shop are true New Orleans.

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20 reviews of Revelator Coffee Company

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Place rating: 5
Novi, MI
This is a coffee maven’s coffee shop. It’s on par with top drawer purveyors like Intelligentsia. Espresso is made with a medium-​roasted Central American coffee which is smooth and cocoa-​like without being bitter or tasting burnt. The baristas are masterful with the latte art and their technique produces great crema. They also do terrific brewed coffee and have several Chemex pourover setups ready to go. Revelator does their own roasting as well. The décor is classy modern and relaxing. Recommended especially if you are serious about coffee or enjoy it as it should be done.
Place rating: 4
Brooklyn, NY
Probably the best coffee shop we went to in NOLA. They have just about anything you’d want, the staff is friendly and knowledgeable, and the place is super clean and modern. Loved their iced coffee. Bathrooms were nice too!
Place rating: 5
Seattle, WA
Visiting New Orleans and wanted to grab coffee outside of the hotel to get a feel for the place. Came in for an iced coffee. Very clean and friendly. Also needed to use their wifi and had no problems, excellent connection. I’ll definitely come here during my trip.
Place rating: 5
Dallas, TX
This is one of the best coffee shops I have ever visited. The space is bright, airy and welcoming. The service was very chill but prompt and friendly. I’m a coffee snob and was thrilled with the iced coffee on a hot New Orleans afternoon. I was drawn to the store by the delicious smell wafting into the street and was delighted with the décor/​design inside.
This is a new favorite for all of my New Orleans vacations!
Place rating: 5
New Orleans, LA
I really like Revelator. The one drawback is that it’s one of the most expensive cups of coffee in town. But the quality somewhat makes up for it. They also sell the best chocolate in the world, Askinosie. I’ve never had anything bad from Revelator.
Place rating: 5
San Leandro, CA
Easily one of the best coffee bars I’ve come across yet. During our first visit, I ended up befriending Casey, one of the baristas who turned out to be damn cool and a seriously foodie. Case in point, she gave me and my friend the best restaurant and bar recommendations by far and nailed it on nearly every one.
But back to the coffee, I loved the variety of single origin roasts here and I couldn’t believe how affordable the Chemex pour overs were. Each carefully made and you can actually get a complimentary one via the check-​in offer.
The bar is the place to settle in to enjoy the black gold and chat it up a bit with the baristas. Suffice it to say, we made more than one visit here and it stands as one of my all-​time favorites for coffee.
Place rating: 5
Marshall, NC
Great atmosphere. Great food and coffee. Love the look of this place and the décor! Will definitely come again if we have time.
Place rating: 4
Vancouver, Canada
I take my coffee and the process/​brewing seriously, so I’m a bit harsh, but it seemed like they were cutting corners a bit and not really pushing to be the best. Therefore, 3.5 stars.
Fancy looking shop, but I’m here for coffee and experience, which wasn’t anything that would make me go back.
I brought it to 4 stars due to the nice guy who help me switch up my cortado cup.
Place rating: 2
Helena, MT
How pretentious! The largest size is a 10oz drink. .. I like four shots and that is nearly the full cup. The staff was absurdly rude and the drinks were $ 13 for two 10oz almond milk drinks. .. find somewhere more worthy of your money.
Place rating: 4
Albuquerque, NM
Went there 3 times when i was in New orleans.
I tried their pour over which had so much flavor.
a 6 oz cappuccino with chocolate which was pretty good
and a 10 oz latte with almond milk.
they all had good flavor, but nothing that made it stand out above other coffee shops.
Place rating: 5
Boston, MA
Revelator is another great coffee shop which I think started here in New Orleans and now they are popping out in great cities around the south and Charleston is next so I’m excited about that. Overall just a nice, minimalist coffee shop who roast their own beans and just put out a high quality product. So happy to see them expanding while staying true to their hipster roots.
Place rating: 5
New Orleans, LA
Modern coffee shop, kinda hipster like all coffee shops. Very simple menu — milk, coffee, iced, tea, add chocolate. That’s it. Some pastries and small salads in cooler. Knowledgable and helpful staff. Sell fresh whole beans.
Place rating: 5
Denver, CO
My kind of coffee. Simple and short menu. NOT a Starbucks. I love the beautiful modern décor, but I know that is not everyone’s preference.
It was only a block away from my hotel in the CBD.
I’ll be back!
Place rating: 5
Gallatin, TN
Fantastic place if you actually like coffee, as opposed to milkshakes that contain coffee.
Walked in and ordered a coffee. The young man behind the register said «ok… I have 3 to choose from.» He the proceeded to paint the most beautiful descriptions of these 3 coffees. I honestly wanted to order all 3.
I went with a Cambodian coffee that had dark chocolate and orange notes. I had it black and it was absolutely stunning. It has so many complex flavors. No need for milk! They also don’t brew the coffee too hot.
They do pour-​over coffee, some espresso drinks, and loose-​leaf herbal teas. Definitely check this place out!
Place rating: 4
La Jolla, CA
Cool spot with really good coffee. You order the amount of milk you want with your espresso shot to make your custom latte, but know that they don’t add more espresso shots with the larger amounts of milk. So if you want a bigger cup, make sure to add in more espresso otherwise it’s just a cup of hot milk with coffee flavoring.
Place rating: 5
New York, NY
Holy shit this place is so serious with coffee. It’s so hip and gentrifying, and it is definitely highly instagrammable. For the first time I taste umami in my espresso!!! The space is pretty empty at night time. They also sell pastries and juices from Pulp & Grind.
Place rating: 4
Philadelphia, PA
That iced coffee is amazing! So many aromatic notes in it which the simple syrup and splash of half and half actually helped to bring out. Super clean modern space with cute hipster deco. I wish there were more accessible charging outlets as that’s what I usually frequent these places for: phone and coffee recharge.
They have light reading available to complement their solid simple menu. I have a feeling lots of the other things on the menu compare just as well in quality. A bit on the pricey side but worth enjoying if you want to treat yourself out with something.
Place rating: 2
Garden District, New Orleans, LA
MINIMALISM RIDICULISM
Yet another bit of bourgie fluff vending low margin wares (how in the heck do these new places cover their overhead?). The build-​out is impersonal and consequently hackneyed: colorless hues of grey-​white and steel-​gray, slick low profile cabinets, back-​lit shelving and bleached wood. If you throw some scarlet red pillows on the benches it would resemble most guppies’ apartments in 1984.
REVELATOR TAKE-​OUT TAKEAWAYS:
1. They only serve whole milk, no cream or skim
2. They only allow simple syrup, no sweeteners
3. They don’t have large-​sized drinks
4. My iced coffee was bitter.
MUCH BETTER NEARBY COFFEE SHOPS:
French Truck (their New Orleans Iced is my favorite in the city); Merchant (illy Coffee and crepes in a functionally upscale space); New Orleans Coffee & Beignets (a local chain but they have half-​and-​half as well as pink/​blue/​yellow packets); the Keurig machine at Sherwin Williams on Decatur…
Place rating: 5
New Orleans, LA
The New Orleans Third Wave coffee scene is heating up. The pourover I had here as my first coffee there was only second to Condesa’s, my favorite coffee shop in the world.
An outstanding interior renovation, from the quality of the LED lighting to the play in contrasts of the light wood and brutalist concrete counter and the floor made of a material I have yet to identify
This is the third store for this Birmingham AL company, after their home base and Chattanooga TN. Expansion plans are rumored for Atlanta.
Not a large selection of pastries yet but this clearly deserves one of my rare 5 stars reviews, if only for the complementary shawls provided to cold blooded locals who dislike the cold air put out by the presumably super efficient air conditioning system.
Place rating: 4
New Orleans, LA
Had to try out this wonderdul, female-​driven space in the CBD (Viva women enterprueneurs!). Both the interior design and the menu are spartan: just five coffee items on the menu and a few revolving pastry selections from Gracious Bakery. The staff is informative and friendly. If you tend to shiver from the meat-​locker level A/​C, there’s compliementary shawls to use while you’re enjoying your brew.
My pourover was delicious, and kinda’ sad it’s not closer to home. So the question is…
Why four stars?
IF you want dairy in your coffee, as I am want to do, there’s only two options: whole milk and almond milk. That’s wonderful for vegans, but I want half & half for my pourover. All. The. Time.