The Artistic Bean - Townsend

Great little coffee and tea shop with organic options.

I met with the owner a couple times for Marketplace transactions, and he's a really cool guy. Been wanting to come try the coffee forever, but always in a hurry. Today was a hot one, I was out runing around, and the iced coffee was calling my name as I passed. Came in to have one, and soak up the wifi and A/C. Got an iced mocha, and it was delicious. LOVE that it's all organic, fair trade, and roasted in-house. The staff is friendly, atmosphere and decor are awesome. And they have live music on Saturdays between 2 and 4pm. Today's Saturday, so I might try and go back for that. Finished my coffee, and wanted another. Turns out, they don't do refills. I mentioned that I should've gotten a large, and the girl at the counter smoothly upsold me one. LoL. Love this place, and will be coming back!

Best coffee I've ever had. Definitely recommend stopping here if you get a chance.

We always enjoy stopping here on tge wat to Cades Cove.

Good coffee but be prepared to wait. It took 20 minutes to get my latte. There were 2 girls working but 1 kept walking away. After about 15 minutes she came back to help.