- Book Nook Cafe, founded by UF graduate Breton Homewood, brews specialty coffees and opens fully on March 5 in Gainesville.
- Brewing Thoughts Coffee, started by UF students in 2025, offers unique drinks with homemade syrups and updates hours via social media.
- Honey Nitro is a bike-powered coffee shop serving nitro coffee, teas, and ice cream beverages around Gainesville on Thursdays and Saturdays.
- Parlor Doughnuts opened last fall offering over 20 layered doughnut flavors under $4 and specialty coffees near Gainesville's Innovation District.
From tried-and-true staples to startups grinding their beans for the first time, here’s a list of coffee trucks brewing lattes, mochas and chai around the streets of Gainesville, including some dessert trucks that pair their drinks with sweet treats.
If you lean heavily on the sweet treats, you’ll want to check out this list of donut shops around town.
Book Nook Cafe
Location: 2216 SW Archer Rd.
Hours: 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday
The coffee-serving and book-themed truck aims to be more than a cup of coffee, but “a story, a pause, a place to be.” Gainesville native and University of Florida (UF) graduate Breton Homewood started the business this year after traveling the world with the U.S. Peace Corps in Paraguay and working at UF. Book Nook offers specialty coffees like cold brew, moka pot, French press and pour overs, as well as London fog tea, chai and matcha lattes, all using local Sweetwater Coffee and tea from A Thousand Leaves. Book Nook Cafe is operating a soft opening and will celebrate a grand opening on March 5.
Brewing Thoughts Coffee
Hours and location: updated weekly on Facebook and Instagram
UF students Sofia Ortiz and Titan Wojciak founded the truck in 2025, aiming to fuel ideas, conversations and community through “thoughtfully crafted drinks.” The coffee bar offers cappuccinos, espressos, mochas and teas, signature creations like vanilla earl grey matcha, brown sugar oat milk lattes and banana cinnamon matcha lattes and limited-edition menus all with homemade syrups.
Audrey’s Coffee
Hours and location: updated on Facebook and Instagram
Also founded last year, the family-owned and operated Audrey’s Coffee aims to craft fun and new flavor combinations while frequently changing its location to serve different neighborhoods and events with fresh brews. The menu features traditional recipes like café con leche, cortado and hot tea, signature drinks like The Audrey and The Teddie, and seasonal flavors like apple cider with sweet cream and the Shark Week kickstart.
Honey Nitro and Cold Brew Coffee
Hours and location: Thursdays 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at UF Health Orthopedics, Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to noon at Alachua County Farmers’ Market
Considered by the company to be “the most caffeinated bike in Gainesville,” Honey Nitro is a bike-powered coffee shop serving up nitro coffee and tea drinks around the city. The bike offers various cold brews with cream foams and sweet drizzles and syrups, as well as fruity boba tea flavors, matcha and chai. A bike powered by cold means customers can also get scoops of vanilla ice cream in their drinks.
Opus Airstream
Location: 403 SW 4th Ave. (Fourth Avenue Food Park)
Hours: Every day, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The 1976 Airstream parked in the Fourth Avenue Food Park is one of eight Opus locations around Gainesville, and the only one on wheels. The menu features traditional Opus recipes like mochas, macchiatos and cappuccinos, as well as the Adventure Series of hot espresso, cold brew and chilled beverages, and internationally inspired drinks like the Oh Canada and Mayan Mocha to highlight the Airstream’s worldwide travels.
The Grind Coffee Shop
Hours and location: updated on the shop’s website, Facebook and Instagram
This well-established “coffee magic on wheels” can be seen at festivals, markets and events across Alachua County and into outlying areas like Starke and Lake Butler. The Grind specializes in coffee but also offers smoothies, lemonades, refreshers, chai, matcha and protein shakes, as well as seasonal recipes and baked goods.
Le Petite Beignet
Hours and location: updated on Facebook and Instagram
Meaning “the small beignet” in French, Le Petite Beignet aims to bring a taste of New Orleans to Gainesville. The truck serves sweet and savory scratch-made beignets like rosemary sea salt and cheddar jalapeno, as well as hot and iced Cafe du Monde coffee and signature hot chocolate coffee.
Mini Donut Dudes and Coffee
Location: 1542 W University Ave. (behind UF’s Library West)
Hours: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Recent UF graduate Spencer Ballard has been making donuts for years and opened the new donut and coffee truck this month. His business offers “Dude Brew,” cold brew, espresso and lattes to pair with glazed, cream, chocolate, maple, cheesecake and Fruity Pebbles mini donuts. The Freshman Fifteen combo comes with 12 donuts and a Dude Brew, while The Fifth Year Senior comes with donuts and a cold brew.
DonutNV
Hours and location: updated on Facebook and Instagram
Gainesville is home to the nationwide dessert truck franchise that offers nearly a dozen flavors of “hot mini donuts,” such as maple bacon, strawberry glazed and chocolate Oreo. Customers can pair donuts with a cup of hot or iced coffee or fresh-squeezed lemonade as they watch their donuts being made through a special “watch the donuts” window on the truck.
Parlor Doughnuts
Location: 931 SW 2nd Ave.
Hours: Every day, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The dessert truck franchise opened in Gainesville last fall near the Innovation District, with a menu featuring more than 20 different Famous Layered Doughnut flavors for under $4. The doughnuts are made with layers of buttery dough fried to a crisp on the outside to stay light on the inside. Parlor also offers specialty coffees, teas, energizers, refreshers and old-fashioned sodas.