Boston Common Coffee Co.

Boston Common Coffee is not a coffee shop. The Pelham address points to an industrial-park office where Kevin, David, and Josh roast beans, take online orders, and run a local delivery operation that has put bagged coffee on doorsteps in under an hour. Regulars who showed up expecting a cafe got welcomed in, got their bags ground on the spot, and got a note that the storefront has been closed for years. A more recent Salem location is mentioned in passing, but the Pelham unit runs on online orders and local delivery, not foot traffic, and that is the model the team has built around. The Sea Salt Caramel Mocha cold brew is the standing favorite, sold by the gallon, which is the format office coffee buyers and home regulars order in. Winter Wonderland and Pumpkin Spice flavored beans rotate with the seasons, and the flavored-bean program is a real part of the business, not a side note. The decaf program is one of the things worth calling out, both the decaf espresso and the Royal Select Decaf medium roast, because decaf done with the same fresh-roasting care as the leaded coffee is rare. Office coffee buyers, local-delivery subscribers, and decaf drinkers who want freshly roasted beans by the bag are the actual customer base, and the speed of the same-day local delivery is the whole reason they keep ordering from this operation instead of from a national bean shipper. If you wanted a cafe to sit at in Pelham, this is not it and was never trying to be, no matter what the address suggests on a map. Order online, schedule the delivery, and let the under-an-hour turnaround do the talking. The owners are the operation. They will grind your beans on the spot if you turn up. They will not pour you a cup, because they are not running a counter.