The Cranberry Thistle will entertain your taste buds and your ears with good food, good friends, and good times. Known by locals as “Jonesborough’s Favorite Gathering Place” they offer specialty coffees, frozen fruit drinks, pastries, pies, cakes, soups, sandwiches, beans and cornbread. Enhance your dining experience with live music on the weekends and storytelling on Tuesdays by the Jonesborough Storyteller’s Guild. Please check website for dates and times.

Owners Nancy and Jo could not find a good cup of espresso in Jonesborough when they arrived here in 1999. So they decided to open a café that would provide fancy coffees and teas to the community. They remodeled an old candy store, and settled in – they love the people here and the people love them. Put together good business heads, some good cooks, a great cake maker and the warmest hearted folks you’ll ever meet - and you have a winning combination.

In April 2007 we moved two doors down to a larger building with a picking parlor\music room & a much larger dining area.

Our Business

We specialize in just good-ole down home cooking. Soup beans & fried cornbread is one the most favorite items on the menu as well as the best chicken salad sandwiches with homemade Cranberry Chutney, not to mention some of the best sirloin burgers in the entire area.

We have a large Astoria Espresso machine and make lots of cappuccino's & Latte's etc.People can just sit back relax & hava a cupo'Joe or one a Joe's famous Desserts, read a book, play checkers or check your e-mail on wifi. Maybe our resident ghost will show herself or maybe not.

Who We Are

Owners of The Cranberry Thistle are sisters Jo Storie & Nancy Colburn & Nancy's husband Joseph, who does all the scrumptious baking.