A growing coffee company is bringing a new shop to a busy Midlands road. Here’s where
A new spot where folks can get their fix for coffee and more is headed to Lexington.
Canal Coffee Co., a growing company with locations in the Carolinas and elsewhere, is prepping a new spot at 510 Columbia Ave. There’s a large sign at the property announcing that the coffee spot is “brewing soon,” and the project has been listed in town of Lexington planning and zoning documents in recent months.
An opening date for the Lexington Canal Coffee has not been publicly announced. Construction on the site was underway on Monday morning when a reporter went by.
Canal Coffee Co. has eight existing locations in South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida, according to the company’s website. Current S.C. locations include a spot on Summit parkway in Columbia, a shop on Broad River Road in Irmo and one on Main Street in South Congaree near the Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
The menu at Canal includes a host of traditional and specialty coffees, including seasonal menus such as the current fall collection. That roster includes the fall harvest cold brew, which is a cold brew mixed with brown sugar, cinnamon and pumpkin, topped with shortbread cold foam. Canal also serves energy drinks, teas, smoothies and hot breakfast items such as spicy sausage biscuits.
The Canal Coffee on Columbia Avenue will be in a high-traffic spot in Lexington, northwest of downtown. Nearly 33,000 cars per day travel down that section of Columbia Avenue, per state Department of Transportation data. The coffee place will be near a number of other commercial businesses, including a Pizza Hut next door, and a Best Western hotel and Applebee’s restaurant across the street.
It will also sit a couple blocks away from an outpost of CLUTCH Coffee Bar, another growing coffee chain in the Carolinas that is making inroads in the Midlands.
