A Coffee Crawl Down Main Street
6 stops · about 3 hours · Updated October 5, 2026
Start this coffee-and-pastry crawl in Pontiac, MI at 149 Perry St, the listed address for both Make Good Choices and Max Effect Cafe. Begin with Make Good Choices, a women-owned and Latinx-owned shop focused on thoughtfully made beverages, with coffee, tea, small plates and dessert. Follow with Max Effect Cafe, a Black-owned business serving coffee, breakfast and healthy food choices, connected to Anytime Fitness and The Lafayette Place Lofts.
Continue to Green Room Cafe at 47 N Saginaw St, inside the Little Art Theatre. Coffee, breakfast, lunch and dessert share the menu with vegetarian options, and seating is available indoors and outdoors. Next comes Everybody by Dutton Farm Candles and Coffee at 31 N Saginaw St, whose bath and body business centers disability employment and community access.
For the bakery portion, head to Sheila's Bakery at 800 Perry St for Latin pastries, tres leches cakes and coffee, with tacos available from its small restaurant section. Finish with an arranged pickup at Frankly Awesome Bakery, 326 W Princeton Ave. Its breads, cakes, cookies and muffins are made from scratch to order; appointments are required, and payment is cash only.
Coffee stops
morning
Stop 1
Make Good Choices
4.9(34)Pontiac
Make Good Choices pairs thoughtfully made coffee and tea with dessert and small plates in a casual, quiet setting with seating and Wi-Fi.
Stop 2
Max Effect Cafe
5.0(23)Pontiac
Max Effect Cafe serves coffee, breakfast and healthy food choices, with a stated mission of expanding community access to vitamins, minerals and food.
Stop 3
Green Room Cafe
4.8(25)Pontiac
Green Room Cafe brings coffee, breakfast and dessert to a Little Art Theatre setting, with indoor and outdoor seating and vegetarian options.
Stop 4
Everybody by Dutton Farm Candles and Coffee
5.0(8)Pontiac
Everybody by Dutton Farm Candles and Coffee combines its coffee-shop listing with natural bath and body products and a disability employment mission.
Pastries along the way
morning
Stop 5
Sheila's Bakery
4.5(1628)Pontiac
Sheila's Bakery supplies the crawl with Latin pastries, tres leches cakes and coffee, while its small restaurant section also serves tacos.
Stop 6
Frankly Awesome Bakery
5.0(3)Pontiac
Frankly Awesome Bakery makes preservative-free breads, cakes, cookies and muffins from scratch to order, with custom orders and pickup by required appointment.
