Coffee shops are a dime a dozen, but finding one that makes you want to drive across county lines? That’s rarer than a perfect espresso pull on a humid Alabama morning.
In the charming suburb of Homewood, just south of Birmingham, there’s a coffee sanctuary that has Alabama caffeine enthusiasts mapping out pilgrimages with the devotion of medieval travelers seeking holy relics – except instead of relics, they’re after lattes that might just change your life.
Caveat Coffee sits unassumingly on its corner, a blue-gray building with a simple asterisk next to its name – as if whispering “there’s something special here” without shouting it from the rooftops.
And that asterisk? It’s the perfect symbol for this place – a little mark that says “pay attention to this.”…