Two storefronts on South Main Street, 28 addresses apart, have changed since summer. At 64 S. Main St., the Starbucks that opened in a new building in July 2025 has a closure notice taped to its front door. Up the block at 92 S. Main St., where Diane Prince sold gifts for 40 years, a new sign reads Maqam Coffee House.
Taken together, these two addresses change where the village gets its coffee. For now, the cafes the village merchants association lists as open are all independents, and all of them are on North Main Street or Parce Avenue. When South Main gets coffee again, it will come from a style of coffeehouse the Rochester area has only had since 2025.
The village lost three storefronts in six months
The changes came one at a time, so they were easy to miss. In order:
- End of March 2026. Alter Ego Eatery, the gluten-free bakery and cafe in the Village of Fairport, closed its doors, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.
- July 2026. Diane Prince, a locally owned gift shop at 92 S. Main St., closed after 40 years.
- Late September 2026. The Starbucks at 64 S. Main St. closed during the company's latest round of North American closures.
The Starbucks closure was part of a national decision. On Sept. 24, Starbucks announced it would close 250 locations. The Democrat and Chronicle's list of closed New York stores counted at least 17 statewide. It included the Fairport store and the Monroe Avenue store in Brighton. Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams said the company closes locations every year. He put this round at about 1% of its more than 18,000 North American coffeehouses.
The Fairport store was open for about 14 months. In WROC's coverage of the closure, village residents were divided, much as they had been when the store first opened. Some were sorry to lose it. Others pointed to the Starbucks already in Penfield and Perinton and the local coffee shops already in the village.
The cafes still open are on North Main and Parce
Whichever side you were on, morning coffee in the village now comes from the three cafes the Fairport Perinton Merchants Association lists under What's open in Fairport. They are close together, and each one fills a different need.
Clementine Coffee 6 North Main St., Suite 125, inside the Box Factory. Clementine describes itself as a cafe for handcrafted drinks and brunch. Its site lists hours of Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., with the kitchen closing at 2:30.
FairPour Coffee Roasters 25 Parce Ave., Suite 160, in the historic Fairport Cannery. FairPour started roasting in small batches in 2019 and calls itself a roastery with a full cafe menu. Its site lists the cafe as open daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the kitchen open until 3.
Junction361 24 North Main St. Junction361 serves coffee along with breakfast sandwiches, flatbreads, smoothies, local beer and wine. It also has the longest hours of the three. Its site lists Monday through Thursday 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Junction361 is the only one of the three open before 8 a.m., and it's the only one open past 4 p.m. on any day. FairPour is the one to try on a Sunday morning, since Clementine is closed Sundays. A coffee in the village after 3 p.m. on a weekday means FairPour or Junction361.
The cafe sites don't date their hours pages, and small businesses change their schedules with the seasons. Check before you head out on a cold November morning.
One more detail: the merchants association's Eat & Drink directory still lists Starbucks under Cafe + Food. If you're sending a visiting friend somewhere for coffee, use the three addresses above.
92 South Main is getting a coffeehouse style that reached Rochester in 2025
WROC reported on Oct. 13 that Maqam Coffee House, a Yemeni-style coffee shop, is moving into 92 S. Main St. and has already put up its exterior sign.
Maqam hasn't published a menu, so there's no telling yet what it will pour. What the Rochester area already has is a short record of this kind of cafe, and all of it is recent:
- Layali Coffee House, 942 Jefferson Road, says it was founded in Rochester in 2024 and serves Yemeni coffee and Aden tea. WROC reported that it opened in 2025 on the first day of Ramadan, serving qahwah imported from Yemen along with chai and sweets.
- Albunn Coffee House soft-opened on East Avenue on June 4, 2025, according to WROC. Its site now lists two locations, 333 East Ave. and 354 E. Henrietta Road. The Democrat and Chronicle's photo coverage showed its Adeni tea and Bee Bites, a traditional Yemeni pastry.
- Mocha House opened at College Town on Mount Hope Avenue. When WROC covered it in November 2025, the story highlighted stovetop coffee and a dessert case of Middle Eastern favorites.
So in less than two years, this style of coffeehouse has spread from Jefferson Road to East Avenue, East Henrietta Road and College Town. Fairport's South Main Street is next on that list. Those three places give a rough sense of what Yemeni coffee service looks like around Rochester: qahwah, Adeni tea and a case of sweets. Maqam will set its own menu when it opens.
Both South Main addresses still have open questions
WROC's Oct. 13 report said it was unclear when Maqam would open. Village leaders told the station that other tenants could join Maqam on the building's ground floor. So 92 S. Main may end up with more than one new business.
Nobody has publicly named a new tenant for 64 S. Main St. When the Starbucks closed, WROC said it had asked the Fairport Perinton Chamber of Commerce about what might move into the building and was waiting for an answer.
If you want early notice about either building, the Village publishes the review process new tenants go through. The Village's Planning Board reviews site plans and sign site plans. Work in a historic district or on a landmark needs a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission, according to the Village's list of planning applications.
Saturday coffee runs at the farmers market until Nov. 21
For a few more weeks, a Saturday coffee in the village can include the Fairport farmers market. It runs every Saturday through Nov. 21 at Village Landing, from 8 a.m. to noon. The Village flags the 8 a.m. start as a change from past years.
All three cafes open at 8 a.m. or earlier on Saturdays, the same time the market opens. Clementine and FairPour open at 8, and Junction361 opens at 7. You could pick up a coffee on North Main or at the Cannery, walk to Village Landing while vendors are still setting up, and finish your shopping before noon. After Nov. 21 the market closes for the season, and until Maqam opens, those three cafes are where village coffee comes from.
At Bonnie Pagano, we follow Fairport's storefronts the way neighbors do, one new sign at a time. If you're thinking about a home within walking distance of Main Street and want to know what's opening near the canal, contact us. We're glad to help.
