Water Street · Excelsior, MN

Cafe by day. Listening room by night.

318 Cafe is a New American cafe and coffeehouse that pours coffee and serves brunch all morning — then dims the lights for intimate live music after dark. One warm room, two ways to love it.

✓ Serving Excelsior since 2004 ✓ Intimate 60-seat listening room ✓ Coffee, brunch, dinner & wine

Two rooms in one

Cafe & Coffeehouse

Open every morning for coffee and a relaxed New American breakfast — the kind of spot you settle into with a cup and stay a while.

Weekend Brunch

Saturday and Sunday, 8am to 2pm. Brunch the way it should be — unhurried, hearty, and made to be shared.

Dinner & Live Music

Thursday through Saturday nights, dinner service opens at 6pm and the music starts at 8pm in our intimate listening room.

A neighborhood mainstay since 2004

318 Cafe sits in a 100+ year-old building on Water Street — once a lumber mill, now one of Minnesota's most intimate live-music listening rooms, just 60 seats deep. By day it's coffee and brunch; by night it's a stage you can practically reach out and touch.

  • Local to the core — partnered with MN breweries & farms
  • An intimate room built for listening, not background noise
  • One place for coffee, dinner, wine & a show

Coffee now, music tonight.

Check the menu, then see who's playing the listening room this week.

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