Best Place for Coffee in South Dakota: Red Rooster in Aberdeen!

After you visit the final day of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society Winter Conference today, you’ll surely want to go relax with your organic friends someplace warm and cozy, someplace that embodies the same community values that undergird the sustainable agriculture movement, at a business that feels like home… and serves muffins and nachos.

Trumpets—that’s Red Rooster, the best coffee house not just in Aberdeen but in South Dakota! So says not just this local partisan (and remember, I don’t even drink coffee ;-) ) but Foursquare, which analyzes its user data and finds that Red Rooster is the top rated coffee dispensary in the Coyote Sunshine State.

Interestingly, on its list of the best places for coffee in each state, Foursquare gives Red Rooster an 8.8 rating, which is lower than the rating for the top caffeinery in every state but Alaska, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Not having visited the top coffee shops in the other 45 states, I can’t testify to their superiority and will only speculate that South Dakota’s coffee clientele is too busy hitting Twitter to discuss the South Dakota Legislature to check in on Foursquare.

Whatever you’re Tweeting, go Tweet it over a warm brew at Red Rooster, 202 South Main Street (Main Street! Every truly great coffee shop should be downtown, in the heart of your city!), Aberdeen.

Tangentially Related: Red Rooster does not serve walleye, which Foursquare says is South Dakota’s most disproportionately popular food.

Distantly Related: If you need to put on some miles after the conference before calling it a day, you can cruise down US 12 and I-29 and get a stiffer adult beverage at Monks House of Ale Repute in Sioux Falls, which is Foursquare’s most popular South Dakota bar.