In a region where coffee culture tends to play second fiddle to wine culture, Imprint Coffee Roasting has quietly built one of the most respected roasting operations in the Finger Lakes. Based out of a roastery and drive-thru at 31 State Street in Sodus, Imprint handles every step of the process in-house: beans are received, roasted, and distributed from the same location where you can pull up and order a cup. The back-to-back Gold wins for Best Coffee House at the FLX Finest awards in 2024 and 2025 are not participation trophies. They reflect a roaster who has earned genuine devotion from a discerning local voter base.

The drive-thru format keeps things efficient, but this is not a grab-and-go operation that treats coffee as an afterthought. Imprint takes the sourcing and roasting seriously, and you can taste the difference between their carefully developed profiles and the commodity beans that most regional cafes rely on. They also offer baked goods alongside the coffee, rounding out the stop into something worth a short detour even if you are just passing through Wayne County.

Sodus is not exactly a destination that lands on most Finger Lakes itineraries, which makes Imprint's consecutive Gold wins all the more impressive. The voters are not tourists stumbling in off the wine trail. They are locals who drink this coffee every day and keep coming back because nothing else in the area matches it. For anyone exploring the northern Finger Lakes corridor between Canandaigua and Sodus Bay, Imprint is the coffee stop you did not know you needed.