Soloway Coffee

Ukrainian-roasted beans are the whole premise at Soloway Coffee, the Lincoln Park café that opened in late January 2024 as the brand’s first shop in the United States.

Ukrainian-roasted beans at the centre

The coffee is the reason to pay attention. Soloway brews with its own beans, roasted under the brand rather than bought in from a rotating cast of outside roasters, and that single-source identity is what separates it from most Chicago espresso bars. The roast belongs to the company, and the cup is the clearest way to meet it.

The menu centres on brewed coffee and signature drinks. For a first visit, choose by how directly you want to read the roast: brewed coffee gives the plainest view of the house profile, while a signature drink puts the same coffee into a composed café order. Both use the same beans, so the decision is really about how much milk and sugar you want between you and the roast.

A Lincoln Park café for coffee and pastry

Soloway is a casual Chicago coffee stop with a Ukrainian story, and the Lincoln Park address gives it a more specific role than a standard neighbourhood espresso bar: a coffee place and a small introduction to a Ukrainian company arriving in the city’s specialty scene. The neighbourhood gives it steady daytime trade, and the café reads as a local fixture rather than a destination that needs explaining.

Food matters because the pastries are baked in-house, and the café also works as a breakfast and brunch stop, which extends the food past the pastry case into the middle of the day. Its founders are behind Abrah Bakery & Daily Bistro nearby, a sister concept built on bread and pastry, which explains why the baking here is not an afterthought.

Start with the brewed house coffee

Order the drink that matches the identity: brewed coffee made with Soloway’s own Ukrainian-roasted beans. It is the most direct route into the roast, and a signature drink is the fuller café-style alternative once you know what the base tastes like.

The setting supports that kind of visit. Order at the counter, add something baked, then either take it away or settle in for a slower break. Soloway appears in Eater’s 2026 coffee guide, but the practical appeal is simpler: a Ukrainian brand’s first American café, its own roast, fresh pastry, and a Lincoln Park room built by founders who wanted a community as much as a coffee shop.