Hub Coffee

Went there for coffee during my business trip to Montana. Great coffee and very friendly staff.

Hub Coffee has a great location on Last Chance Gulch, surrounded by lots of shops and restaurants. There’s room for outdoor seating when it’s warm out, and there’s a little park just across the road. They have a good selection of drinks, with a decent variety of hot tea (something I always look for). If their coconut brownie is representative of their other baked goods, they’re delicious!

Overall this place was great. I ordered a lavender mocha (which the sweet, young barista said they had), but I think I got just a plain mocha. I am totally fine with this because the mocha itself was outstanding! I was happy to see that they can lettuce wrap any of their sandwiches so I ordered an egg salad sandwich. It was perfect. This was my first time here and I will be back!
Second visit she nailed the lavender mocha. I just asked for extra lavender!

First time here after moving to town the past couple months. Good coffee, relaxed atmosphere, free wi-​fi, couches/​chairs for a more relaxed sit… didn’t try the food but it smells good. Seem to be a handful of students studying and working on homework.

Being new to town, this is my first coffee shop my husband and I went to. Hub coffee shop has a laid back atmosphere and has a hip city-​esque feel to it. The staff is friendly, and the coffee was delicious! We plan to come back.

Such a cute venue! The girls were very sweet and helpful.
I ordered the «Veggie Egg Bake». Gluten-​free and DELICIOUS!
The Lemon-​Ginger Tea: Caffeine-​free and oh so Yummy.
Overall, a great café!!!

We stopped for lunch at the hub. The coffee mocha drink was delicious and we each had pastrami sandwiches. Sandwiches tasted wonderful but were very skimpy. There were only two layers of meat. New Yorkers would laugh and send it back to the kitchen.
A real pastrami sandwich should be more than your mouth can open wide enough to take a bite. For seven dollars I would expect better. If it weren’t for the skimpy sandwich I would give this place five stars. Has great Wi-​Fi and very nice ambience. You can choose to sit out on the patio or inside. The nice thing is if you have a dog, which we do, the dogs are welcome on the patio and they even have little rugs for the dogs to lay on.

Always receive great service!
Checking out their new menu and absolutely LOVE their Mediterranean sandwich! This will certainly be my new lunchtime favorite.

We’ve visited Hub on both our trips to Helena in the past year. It’s now officially our go to place for coffee or a quick light breakfast. Daughter had the Greek yoghurt parfait — thick creamy, fresh fruit and crunchy granola. I tried the granola bar-​substantial, chewy with lots of dried fruit. My café au lait was perfect. Lots of interesting tea choices.

Really great service and the best coffee in town.

I love the hub. I was so happy to actually find a place that makes quality coffee. Best coffee in Helena by miles.

Would love to go there but this is the third time I have tried to go there and it has been closed during posted open hours.

With beans from Bozeman and loose leaves from Beverly Hills, and odd bits and pieces of bikes hanging around, you just know that this place is hip.
«Hip» is hard to define, and while it’s usually thought of as a positive thing, sometimes it serves as a stand-​in for snobbish or elite.
While the beans and tea are from places a tad full of themselves, Helena — where Hub is — definitely is not. It’s cool but in an unpretentious way. And it’s living in the twenty-​first century, not stuck in nineteenth-​century Western nostalgia.
OK: parts of Helena are very into the Lewis and Clark/​Great Northern/​mining and logging town past. That’s true. But just not at Hub.
It’s a new operation — in its second year — and definitely deserves to be called hip: stone floors, big windows, minimalist décor with art, posters, and wifi password information on the walls, a cherry-​red La Marzocco machine showing itself off on the counter across from an attractive display of Theo chocolate bars. Ghost Town Roasting beans in bags share space with Hub gear and Art of Tea tins, while good music you’ve probably never heard before floats through the wide open spaces between mounted speakers and your waiting ears. A few black leather chairs and couch offer some softness from all the metal, stone, and glass, but they too are lean and clean: a Bauhaus meets Montana sort of thing.
And the coffee and tea are fine — good raw materials, good preparation, sturdy black mugs to consume them in while the musics plays and the sun shines and it’s 28 degree outside and you’re reading the New Yorker in your new best friend, the black leather armchair next to the storefront window. Empty coffee bags hang from the exposed ceiling, adding a touch of tropical warmth into the sleek Rocky Mountain surroundings.
A place is hip if it looks as cool as you feel, if the beans and leaves are fresh and fair, if the atmosphere doesn’t overwhelm the customer, and if you feel like you belong there even if you are just a casual stranger.
A place like that is not snobbish or elite. You don’t feel like you’re superior or inferior to anyone else. You’re all there for the same thing: something good to drink, someplace fun to be, a little elbow room to be yourself, and lots of unscheduled time to unwind: like a bunch of electrons hanging around at a lower energy state but getting ready to leap, jump, and play at some point not too distant in the future.
I’ll bet you could use a hub like that, now and again, at home or on the road.
I certainly do.
It’s why I came here.

I hadn’t been back to Helena for a little over a year. Last time I was here, I could see they had started working on getting the space ready, but hadn’t opened.
First thing I noticed upon walking in is the space is big — like most places these days, high ceilings, exposed ducting, etc, making the space feel even bigger. There’s a large patio out front, with more than a half-​dozen tables, and still plenty of space. It’s got large sliding glass doors in the front, that can open up to the patio nicely (if this were bigger/​trendier I’d expect an old school glass garage door). Inside there’s a dozen tables or so, and there are three chaise lounges up front, and a couch and some comfier seating in the back. Tables are a brushed aluminum, while look like dark bamboo. Simple, modern feel, though slightly disjointed. Think cool and chic, rather than warm and cozy.
The name/​logo has the word Hub, superimposed over a bicycle sprocket — reminds me a bit of the Hub in Reno, which is a much smaller coffee shop, but also is named after a bicycle Hub.
Coffee option seemed good, including drip, pour over, Clever drip, Americano, etc. Surprisingly, I didn’t see a French press option. Also a large La Marzocco espresso machine sitting at one end of the counter. In any case, I got the pour over. Impressed to see that the were weighing out the beans on a gram scale and grinding fresh. Standard Hario swan neck, and while I was half expecting to see a ceramic Hario or Blue Bottle, instead a plastic pour over with a metal (non-​gold?) filter. Pour over didn’t include waiting for the bloom to settle, but did appear like he wetted out the beans first — couldn’t tell if he avoid pouring on the filter or not, but in any case, the coffee seemed good to me inexperienced coffee palette.
Hours are rather limited, much like everything else in Helena — 7 to 6 Monday through Friday, and 8 – 2 on weekends, so not a great venue for someone like me who likes to get some work done in the evening, late at night. I’m still surprised Helena doesn’t seem to have a good option like that for students, but maybe Carroll isn’t big enough to provide that kind of consumer base.

Fantastic mochas with pretty little leaf designs in the foam. Love them. The ever changing array of baked goods are yummy too.

There’s nothing else like Hub in Helena. Great atmosphere, and the outdoor patio is the perfect spot to sip an iced mocha and do a little reading or people watching. They support local art and music, and even had a dj providing some background beats the last time I was there. I’ve been there several times since they opened, and each time the service has been quick and the quality consistent. Their beans are top notch, and their tea selection is the most unique I’ve ever seen. I’m not much of a tea person, but flavors like white coconut definitely have me intrigued. Way to go, Hub!