Columbus Coffee Festival

Find Conscious Seed at the 10th annual Coffee Festival taking place October 4th & 5th, 2025!

The Columbus Coffee Festival was launched in 2016 by local news outlet Columbus Underground, providing a way to connect local coffee roasters with coffee fans from all over Central Ohio and beyond. Over the years the festival has grown into a two-day extravaganza with approximately 9,000 in attendance at our 2024 event, featuring over 40 roasters from all throughout the midwest.

The Columbus Coffee Festival is a ticketed event, and each ticketed attendee receives a collectable mug to keep, and all coffee sampling is included with the price of admission. Additional event features include live music, live poetry readings, craft vendors, food trucks and an eclectic mix of entertainment features each year.

Columbus Underground is a locally owned and operated news publication — founded in 2001 by Walker Evans and Anne Evans — which covers a wide variety of topics related to life in Columbus and Central Ohio. Columbus Underground does not feature any type of paywall or subscription for news access, keeping all news articles free for the entire community to read. All proceeds generated by the Columbus Coffee Festival help to fund this local journalism, year-round.

The Columbus Coffee Festival takes place this year at the Franklin County Fairgrounds.