From the smooth jazz and cozy atmosphere of Rough Draft to the rock’n’roll-vinyl-selling Checker Records, there is a coffee shop for everyone located right here in Hillsdale, Michigan. Less than a mile from campus, Rough Draft offers a cozy study space and many coffee options from their specialty lattes to cortados to breves. Erin Freidenfeld,...
Jilly Beans Coffeehouse owner Mary-Ellen Sattler brought life to the walls of her downtown Hillsdale shop through scenic nature murals full of birch trees and animals. Sattler asked her niece Danielle Musch, a nursing student at Grand Valley State University, to paint two murals on different walls. Musch finished the first in August 2020 and...
Whether you’re new on campus, or you’ve lived in Hillsdale for decades, it’s not hard to notice the collection of coffee shops that are sprinkled throughout town Here are five unique fall drinks that will satisfy your autumnal coffee – or tea – craving. Butterscotch Latte from Biggby Coffee Ranked number 5 on the list...
There’s nothing like walking down Hillsdale Street as leaves crunch under your feet, colorful trees line the sidewalk, and front porches display pumpkins and jack-o’-lanterns. Jilly Beans, a coffee shop in the heart of downtown Hillsdale, encapsulated this magical autumn feeling in their latest seasonal special. The “If Fall Was a Flavour” latte is a...
Walk into Jilly Beans’s new location in downtown Hillsdale and you’ll notice two things, lots of space and lots of moose. Owner Mary Ellen Sattler closed up the old shop just a few doors down and moved to a new location just down the street at the end of May. Sattler said that she...