Trends · data through September 2026

Cafes & Bakery-Cafes in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 788 stores from 568 cafes & bakery-cafes in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Zeke's Coffee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Grace Street Coffee Roasters and Tatte Bakery & Cafe.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
568
Tracked stores
788
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked cafes & bakery-cafes

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Zeke's Coffee and Grace Street Coffee Roasters sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Z Zeke's Coffee ▲2 +17.6%
2 G Grace Street Coffee Roasters logo Grace Street Coffee Roasters - +17.1%
3 T Tatte Bakery & Cafe logo Tatte Bakery & Cafe - +12.3%
4 S Simply Social Coffee ▲1 +12.3%
5 L La Poteria Local - +6.3%
6 Y YELLOW ▲1 -0.1%
7 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread - -2.7%
8 C Coffee Republic logo Coffee Republic ▼2 -4.0%
9 C Cafesano logo Cafesano - -5.5%
10 F For Five Coffee Roasters ▲1 -5.8%
11 L La Madeleine French Café logo La Madeleine French Café - -6.6%
12 J Java Nation ▲1 -7.2%
13 D Dolcezza ▲1 -7.3%
14 E Einstein Bros. Bagels logo Einstein Bros. Bagels - -7.8%
15 S Sweet Leaf ▼1 -8.4%
  • Panera Bread
  • Tatte Bakery & Cafe
  • Call Your Mother
  • Compass Coffee
  • Colada Shop
  • Shotted Specialty Coffee
  • La Madeleine French Café
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

788 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panera Bread (86)
  • Tatte Bakery & Cafe (8)
  • Call Your Mother (3)
  • Compass Coffee (6)
  • Colada Shop (4)
  • Shotted Specialty Coffee (2)
  • La Madeleine French Café (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread 86
  • 2 E Einstein Bros. Bagels logo Einstein Bros. Bagels 11
  • 3 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger 10
  • 4 T Tatte Bakery & Cafe logo Tatte Bakery & Cafe 8
  • 5 S Sweet Leaf 7
  • 6 C Compass Coffee logo Compass Coffee 6
  • 7 C Corner Bakery logo Corner Bakery 5
  • 8 L La Madeleine French Café logo La Madeleine French Café 5
  • 9 L Le Pain Quotidien logo Le Pain Quotidien 4
  • 10 F For Five Coffee Roasters 4
  • 11 Z Zeke's Coffee 4
  • 12 J Java Nation 4
  • 13 C Coffee Republic logo Coffee Republic 4
  • 14 D Dolcezza 4
  • 15 C Colada Shop logo Colada Shop 4
  • 16 C Casey's Coffee 3
  • 17 S Simona Cafe 3
  • 18 U Uptowner Cafe 3
  • 19 G Grace Street Coffee Roasters logo Grace Street Coffee Roasters 3
  • 20 C Cafesano logo Cafesano 3
  • 21 S Simply Social Coffee 3
  • 22 L La Poteria Local 3
  • 23 C Call Your Mother logo Call Your Mother 3
  • 24 Y YELLOW 3
  • 25 M Maman logo Maman 3
  • 26 U Union Kitchen logo Union Kitchen 3
  • 27 S Shotted Specialty Coffee 2
  • 28 M Misha's 2
  • 29 T Teaism logo Teaism 2
  • 30 V Vigilante Coffee logo Vigilante Coffee 2
  • 31 Q Quartermaine Coffee Roasters 2
  • 32 E Emissary 2
  • 33 M Manhattan Bagel logo Manhattan Bagel 2
  • 34 G Gallery Cafe 2
  • 35 N Northside Social logo Northside Social 2
  • 36 D Doppio Bunny Coffee 2
  • 37 G Good Company Doughnuts & Cafe 2
  • 38 L Lily's Chocolate & Coffee 2
  • 39 E El Rinconcito Cafe 2
  • 40 A Aroma Cafe 2
  • 41 C CUPPi Coffee 2
  • 42 S SR Coffee Co 2
  • 43 K Kaldi's Social House logo Kaldi's Social House 2
  • 44 E East West Cafe 2
  • 45 M Matcha Cafe Maiko logo Matcha Cafe Maiko 2
  • 46 S Sibling Coffee 2
  • 47 S Swing's Coffee 2
  • 48 W Weird Brothers Coffee logo Weird Brothers Coffee 2
  • 49 S Springfield Cafe 1
  • 50 S Shaghf Cafe 1

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