{"id":152833,"date":"2026-02-05T23:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/152833\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:11:49","slug":"merit-coffee-to-open-fourth-austin-location-in-the-mueller-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/152833\/","title":{"rendered":"Merit Coffee to open fourth Austin location in the Mueller area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/meritcoffee.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merit Coffee<\/a> will open its fourth Austin coffee shop at Mueller in mid February.<\/p>\n<p>The Valentine&#8217;s Day opening event Feb. 14 will include giveaways, pop-ups and samples, according to the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/meritcoffee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the menu<\/p>\n<p>The business serves coffee and cold brew alongside hot and iced espresso and tea beverages like lattes, cappuccinos and matcha lattes.<\/p>\n<p>Current specialty drinks include the bourbon cream cold foam, strawberry cheesecake cold foam and cereal milk cold brew.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>Merit Coffee was founded in San Antonio and has expanded with new coffee shops across Austin and Dallas. Other Austin-area coffee shops are located at The Triangle, Downtown Austin and South Lamar.<\/p>\n<p>The business serves coffee that is sourced from Central and South America as well as Africa and then roasted in San Antonio, according to Merit Coffee&#8217;s website. The coffee shop sells its coffee beans at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralmarket.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Market<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Foods<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heb.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H-E-B<\/a>, manager Zackary Ritchie said.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>Merit Coffee is planning to open two new coffee shops in Houston in 2026, Ritchie said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merit Coffee will open its fourth Austin coffee shop at Mueller in mid February. The Valentine&#8217;s Day opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,63246,63248,63240,63241,63245,63242,63243,21537,63247,63249,63244],"class_list":{"0":"post-152833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-coffee-shops-in-mueller","12":"tag-east-austin-coffee-shops","13":"tag-merit-coffee","14":"tag-merit-coffee-austin","15":"tag-merit-coffee-houston","16":"tag-merit-coffee-mueller","17":"tag-merit-coffee-new-location","18":"tag-mueller","19":"tag-mueller-coffee-shops","20":"tag-new-coffee-shops-in-austin","21":"tag-new-merit-coffee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}