Grove Grocer

Matcha and milk bread at a Coconut Grove counter

The counter pours artisan coffee and matcha, the case holds breakfast and lunch, and the room behind both is a small grocery. Grove Grocer is family run, part boutique market and part dine-in neighborhood stop, so a visit can move from a drink at the bar to a shelf of premium organic goods, local South Florida produce and specialty items without changing rooms. The street-facing seats are part of the draw, with a front-row view of the Grove and the pavement traffic that comes with it. It works three ways: a coffee and a light bite, a sit-down lunch, or a grocery run with a drink in hand.

The food carries as much weight as the shelves

Food is not a side note here. At lunch the kitchen builds sandwiches on milk bread, with the GG Club and the chicken salad as the two named versions, and sandwiches are central enough that they are the first thing most people mention about the place. Grove Grocer appears in the Infatuation Coffee Guide for 2026. The drinks list is clearest around coffee and matcha rather than a long menu of flavored specials, and the retail side keeps its own logic: organic pantry goods, produce from South Florida farms, and small specialty lines that would not turn up in a supermarket aisle. The two halves are meant to be used together.

Order the matcha latte, then a milk bread sandwich

Start with the matcha latte, the drink most closely tied to the place. If coffee is the priority, the iced latte with Okinawa brown sugar syrup is the more distinctive order, rounder and sweeter than a plain iced latte. For lunch, take the sandwich route: the GG Club or the chicken salad, both on milk bread, both easy to eat at the window. The market can shape the rest of the visit, since the shelves carry curated organic products, local produce and specialty items, which makes Grove Grocer useful as a cafe stop and a grocery stop at once. A visit can take in a word with the barista, a browse along the shelves, a plate at the table and the view out to the Grove, in whatever order the hour suggests. The full version is a drink at the counter, a sandwich at a table, a look at the shelves, and a view into the Grove on the way out.