Black & White Coffee at Videri Chocolate Factory

Black & White Coffee’s Raleigh cafe sits inside the Videri Chocolate Factory building on West Davie Street downtown. The roaster’s own coffees are what you drink here: single-origin lots and blends with some complexity to them. It is one of two cafes the company runs.

The company’s guiding idea is that coffee should be simple, and the cafe is built around that. One practical advantage over most of downtown Raleigh: the cafe has free parking, which is genuinely hard to find in that part of the city.

What to know

• The company’s first cafe, and its former roasting space, is in Wake Forest.
• The roastery and warehouse are closed to the public, and events there are by invitation.
• Roasting happens on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
• Orders ship on the next roasting day after they are placed.
• Online orders over forty dollars ship free.