Espresso & Lattes Carts in North Carolina

Quarter Note Coffee started as a specialty espresso cart serving the Raleigh-Durham area, and it still takes bookings for catering and events. Since January 2024 the business has also run a coffee shop near Crabtree Mall in Raleigh. Their coffee comes from Porch Culture Coffee Roasters of Tyler, Texas, and the two have worked together since Quarter Note began. The team makes its syrups and chai by hand, and the shop also sells baked goods from Blue Ox Bakery. Event planners can book the cart through the Quarter Note website.

The Dapper Bean

Reform Cafe

Brew LaLa is a mobile coffee bar based in Waxhaw, North Carolina, serving the greater Charlotte area. They also roast their own coffee, and in June 2023 they took over Sospeso Coffee Roasters. Their espresso menu covers drip coffee, Americanos, cappuccinos, café lattes, vanilla and caramel lattes, mochas, white chocolate mochas, caramel macchiatos and chai tea lattes. They also make steamers and hot cocoa. The centrepiece of their setup is a converted horse trailer. Clients can book it as a staffed coffee bar or rent it bare for their own event. Brew LaLa also has a rolling bar cart built for coffee and a second rolling bar made for drinks served from a keg, which gives planners a few ways to fit them into an event.

Black Moth Bars is a mobile bartending service based in Charlotte, North Carolina, serving Charlotte, Lake Norman and the surrounding areas. Their main focus is craft cocktails made with fresh ingredients. They design custom menus around the couple's or host's tastes, the guests' preferences and the budget, built on whichever base spirit the client prefers. Coffee is offered as an add-on to any of their bar packages. The coffee service comes with milk, cream, raw cane sugar and a house-made syrup, served in compostable cups. They work weddings, micro-weddings, corporate parties and private events. Their bar rentals include a vintage camper bar, and they describe the overall style as vintage and boho.

Bad Brain Coffee Co. is a specialty coffee business based in Raleigh, North Carolina, listed here under espresso and latte carts. Recent posts on its website mention coffee beans from a local roaster and flavored cold foams such as cookie butter, Snickers, and apple butter with brown sugar. Planners should note that the company currently says it is not taking bookings. It serves customers seven days a week from a fixed location and is not set up to work offsite events.

SipSide Coffee Bar

Unhinged Coffee and Co

Raleigh Coffee Company

Drews Brews Coffee is a mobile coffee business based in Raleigh, North Carolina, listed in our espresso and latte cart category. Event planners in the Raleigh area who want espresso-style drinks for their guests may want to get in touch with Drews Brews Coffee to ask about their menu, the kinds of events they take on, and their availability.