Golden Tyme

One of the only African-American owned coffee shops in the Twin Cities, The Golden Thyme is a coffee shop with a classy, jazz-influenced interior, and the joke-cracking, news-trading intimacy of an old-fashioned barbershop. Pastors, city council members, police district commanders and beat patrolers, community organizers, nonprofit managers, constructions workers, mechanics, local business owners, and amateur boxers are among the clientele who crowd the shop in the morning and after work. Like most coffee shops, the Golden Thyme is a place where people go to work, but unlike most others, the work done there is more likely to be intense one-to-ones with political allies on local zoning or contracting laws, than individual work on a paper or report. Indeed, The Golden Thyme may well be the coffee shop with the fewest laptops-per-customer average in the Twin Cities. The food and coffee are good enough, but the reason to come is for the community.