La Cabra Coffee Roasters ★ 4.9
The roastery that put Aarhus on the specialty coffee map. Founded in 2012 in the Latin Quarter, La Cabra pioneered Nordic light roasting in Denmark and now.
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Tim Wendelboe Roastery ★ 4.9
Tim Wendelboe's roastery and lab on Toyengata in Oslo's Toyen district is the World Barista Champion's working roast house, with retail bag pickup.
Apartment Coffee ★ 4.9
Ranked sixth in the World's Top 100 Coffee Shops 2026 and the best coffee shop in Asia for the second consecutive year. Barista-owner Yeo Qing He roasts and brews exclusively single-origin coffees, sourced directly from producers across Latin America, Central America and Asia. The filter menu changes weekly; every cup is calibrated to the same competition standard.
TipRetail beans available for purchase. Open Friday to Wednesday 10am to 6pm. The filter bar is the main event; ask the barista what is on the grinder.
LAB Tostadores de Cafe ★ 4.8
The roastery that helped launch BA's third-wave coffee scene; sister cafe LAttente Caffe in Palermo Soho. Single-origin filter, espresso, retail whole bean.
Strauss ★ 4.8
Strauss is a family-owned cafe down a laneway off Elizabeth Street, brewing its own Strauss House Blend and single origin beans rotated weekly.
Proud Mary ★ 4.8
Proud Mary in Collingwood is Melbourne's most awarded roaster: direct-trade sourcing, rotating single origins and a cafe drawing coffee pilgrims from abroad.
Single O ★ 4.8
Single O is a specialty coffee roaster at 60-64 Reservoir Street in Surry Hills, selling the Reservoir, Collider and Killerbee blends and single origins.
Kaffemik ★ 4.8
Kaffemik at Zollergasse 5 is a specialty coffee café and roastery in Vienna Neubau, serving coffee, beans to take home, cuppings and barista workshops.
TipTry the coffees at the café and take beans home; online orders of €50 or more ship free within Austria.
Cupping Café ★ 4.8
Cupping Café has roasted its own beans for this Vila Madalena roastery cafe in Sao Paulo, named to the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list for 2026.
Doubleshot ★ 4.8
Doubleshot is the original Czech specialty roaster, founded 2010. Located in Holesovice. Open mon-fri 09:00-18:00, sat 09:00-16:00. Booking recommended.
TipTheir Holesovice market hall espresso bar is the cheapest way to taste the current bag.
Coffee Collective ★ 4.8
Coffee Collective trades directly with coffee farmers, pays prices far above market level and roasts all its coffees in its Copenhagen roastery.
TipA Collective coffee subscription brings a curated selection of coffees rotating on a monthly basis, with the flexibility to pause or cancel anytime.
L'Alchimiste ★ 4.8
L'Alchimiste in Bordeaux's Golden Triangle is the city's pioneer specialty roaster, opened 2014, with two cafes, a training programme and a wholesale book.
TipBeans rotate weekly; the El Salvador and Rwanda lots have been the consistently best-rated of the seasonal arrivals.
Deep Coffee Roasters ★ 4.8
Deep Coffee Roasters in Marseille's 1er roasts on-site at Rue Glandeves, sourcing arabica from Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Myanmar and Ethiopia.
Schamong Kaffee ★ 4.8
Schamong Kaffee on Venloer Strasse in Cologne has roasted its own beans since 1949, making it the oldest specialty roastery in the city; the Altstadt cafe.
Elbgold ★ 4.8
Elbgold's roastery and flagship cafe on Lagerstrasse in Hamburg's Sternschanze has roasted specialty coffee in a former meat-packing hall since 2004.
TipRoastery viewing windows at the back; whole-bean retail and subscriptions available at the counter.
Casino Mocca ★ 4.8
Casino Mocca, started in 2013, says it is the leading new-wave coffee roastery of Hungary; it roasts at Hunyadi János út 3 and ships worldwide.
TipRoasted and dispatched within 3 business days, with a free parcel locker or pick-up point on domestic orders over 20.000.- HUF.
Blue Bird Roastery ★ 4.8
Blue Bird Roastery, at Rumbach Sebestyén utca 12., roasts coffee, and says it supplied over 20 cafes and contract-roasted for 4 by the Covid pandemic.
TipAny cafe can order its coffee here with no minimum order quantity and custom packaging; the site also lists a webshop.
ROSA Roastery ★ 4.8
ROSA Coffee Roastery at Népsziget út 9 in Budapest lists coffees from Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala, priced from 4.200 Ft, and is open on Sundays.
TipIt is open on Sundays from 9am to 2pm at Népsziget, and the site lists its coffees with prices from 4.200 Ft.
SOMA Coffee Company ★ 4.8
Cork's most technically advanced specialty roaster, roasting on 15kg and 30kg Giesen drum roasters while serving customers at the Tuckey Street counter.
3fe ★ 4.8
3fe by Colin Harmon, Dublin's defining third-wave coffee roaster since 2009, eight Dublin cafes plus retail beans, the city's reference specialty operation.
TipBuy whole-bean retail through the cafes; the rotating Ethiopian single-origin is the espresso bag worth carrying home.
Coffeewerk + Press ★ 4.8
Coffeewerk and Press on Quay Street Galway reached number 32 in the World's Best Coffee Shops 2026; the espresso uses a rotating East African single-origin.
REC Coffee ★ 4.8
Founder Yoshikazu Iwasa was a World Barista Championship competitor. REC's Shirogane flagship roasts in-house and runs a public espresso bar with retail.
TipFive minutes from Yakuin Station. Whole bean retail bags are the souvenir order.
Iolite Coffee Roasters ★ 4.8
Iolite in Nakagyo in Kyoto is Daisuke Yoshida's roaster inside his grandfather's old wagashiya, cedar beams, single-origins, light-roast V60 and espresso.
TipTiny back nook seats four; mornings are calmest. Cuppings by appointment.
LiLo Coffee Roasters ★ 4.8
One of western Japan's most respected independent roasters, LiLo sources from Ethiopian and Colombian farms. The open roasting bay is visible to guests.
Glitch Coffee and Roasters ★ 4.8
Glitch Coffee in Tokyo's Jimbocho is Kiyokazu Suzuki's light-roast specialty room, surrounded by secondhand bookstores. Pour-over flight is the morning order.
TipThe light roasts read more like tea than espresso. Order a Geisha pour-over and the staff will walk you through it.
palReal ★ 4.8
palReal in Guadalajara is the Arcos Vallarta specialty bar on Lope de Vega 113, the operation that roasts Mexican single origins as Cafe Estelar.
Buna ★ 4.8
Buna in Mexico City is the Roma Norte in-house specialty roaster on Orizaba, the operation that sells Mexican single-origin Chiapas, Veracruz and Oaxaca.
Cafe Brujula ★ 4.8
Cafe Brujula is Oaxaca's specialty-coffee anchor on the Andador, roasting small lots from Sierra Norte and Pluma in-house at the Garcia Vigil sister branch.
Man Met Bril Koffie ★ 4.8
Rotterdam's defining roastery brand, roasting under the Hofbogen arches in Noord. Located in Rotterdam Noord. Open mon-fri 07:00-17:00; sat-sun 08:00-18:00.
Origen Tostadores de Cafe ★ 4.8
Origen Tostadores at Calle Enrique Palacios 1008 in Miraflores is Gino Kanashiro and Jessica Tejada's 2013 single-origin Peruvian roastery-cafe in Lima.
TipThree Lima cafes: Miraflores, Pueblo Libre (the Av Simon Bolivar roastery) and Barranco (Av San Martin 131).
La Gacca Cafe by Brisman ★ 4.8
La Gacca on Woźna in Poznań's Old Town is Mateusz Gaca's micro-roastery and cafe, opened July 2024 to succeed the closed Brisman, blending beans on premises.
TipCold brew is the house bar trick; the espresso menu rotates as the drum runs, so trust whichever single-origin Mateusz is pouring.
HAYB Speciality Coffee ★ 4.8
HAYB Effortless Speciality is a specialty coffee roastery in Warsaw that roasts its coffee to bring out its depth and character, and sells a tasting box.
Hello, Kristof ★ 4.8
Hello, Kristof is a specialty coffee and brunch cafe at Rua do Poco dos Negros 103; the group roasts in-house, with locations in São Bento, Bica and Alfama.
Torra Roasting & Coffee ★ 4.8
Torra Roasting & Coffee is a coffee roaster at Travessa do Conde da Ponte 1 in Alcântara, selling freshly roasted coffees, equipment and workshops.
TipTorra holds workshops, from latte art masterclasses to brew immersion sessions that unveil the secrets of crafting the perfect brew.
Mala Pražarna ★ 4.8
Mala Pražarna is a micro roastery of specialty coffee at Krakovski nasip 10, with a specialised cafe that runs as part of the roastery in Ljubljana.
TipThe cafe is dog-friendly and has free, fast Wi-Fi for shorter digital tasks.
Prazarna ★ 4.8
Prazarna roasts its Blend me up specialty coffee with passion and dedication in Ljubljana and grinds it fresh to order for your taste at Dunajska cesta 61.
TipAsk for it freshly ground to order in the style you brew: Turkish, espresso or cafeteria.
Fritz Coffee Company ★ 4.8
Fritz Coffee Company is the roaster that set the standard for Seoul's specialty coffee era, sourcing and roasting single-origins from Ethiopia to Guatemala.
Arvo Specialty Coffee ★ 4.8
ARVO Specialty Coffee is a coffee shop and brunch café next to the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, serving coffee roasted in Euskadi by Old Town Coffee.
Hola Coffee Roasters ★ 4.8
Hola Coffee Roasters is a coffee roaster at Calle Doctor Fourquet 33 selling seasonal coffees, whole beans or ground, with a monthly subscription and courses.
TipCoffees come as a monthly subscription with up to 10% off, delivered to your door every month.
Ineffable Coffee Roasters ★ 4.8
Ineffable Coffee Roasters roasts fresh, seasonal specialty coffee in Seville, from its base at Calle Pintor Amalio Garcia del Moral 2B in Dos Hermanas.
TipFree shipping from 40€ to the Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and Portugal, and a coffee subscription is on offer.
Simple Kaffa Flagship ★ 4.8
Simple Kaffa sells Competition Roast, Light Roasted and Medium & Dark Roasted coffee, plus drip bags, and has a shop at No. 27, Sec. 2, Zhongxiao E. Rd.
TipSimple Kaffa also runs Sola, which its homepage lists alongside an online shop and a shop list.
Roots Coffee Roasters ★ 4.8
Roots Coffee in Bangkok's Thonglor 17 is the foundational 2014 Thai third-wave roaster from Varatt Vichit-Vadakan, supplying many of the city's specialty.
TipThe pour-over flight is the way to read the bean program. Weekend mornings queue from 09:00.
Artisan Roast ★ 4.8
Artisan Roast's Broughton Street cafe, at 57 Broughton Street, is the heart of the Artisan Roast family, an independent specialty coffee roastery.
TipEspresso is the Janszoon blend plus a seasonal single origin, and the brew bar pours single origin on batch brew or V60; iced options include espresso tonic.
Caravan Manchester ★ 4.8
First Caravan site outside London, opened 2024 in Goods Yard at St John's off Spinningfields. 10,000 sq ft all-day room with takeaway coffee bar.
Kaladi Brothers Coffee ★ 4.8
Kaladi Brothers started as a 4th Avenue espresso cart in spring 1986 and has grown into Alaska's premier specialty coffee operator, roasting on Brayton.
PennyCup Coffee Co ★ 4.8
PennyCup Coffee Co, a coffee roaster at 362 Depot St in Asheville, nods to the penny universities of the 1800s with coffee, community and conversation.
TipThe newest Curioso, Haiti Thiotte Emerald Reserve, is sun-dried with notes of caramelized sugar, jasmine, graham cracker and peach.
Portrait Coffee ★ 4.8
Portrait Coffee in West End, Atlanta opened its flagship cafe and roastery in 2023 as a Black-owned third-wave roaster sourcing directly from farmers.
TipWhole bean retail on the cafe counter. The Westside Beltline trail runs past the front door; subscription ships nationally.
Houndstooth Coffee ★ 4.8
Houndstooth Coffee in Austin is the multi-roaster cafe chain founded by Sean Henry in 2010, with seven Austin shops pouring house blends alongside guest.
TipThe Frost Bank Tower location is the central flagship; the original on North Lamar has the larger bar.
Ceremony Coffee Roasters ★ 4.8
Ceremony Coffee Roasters runs a flagship cafe in Mount Vernon Marketplace, an Annapolis roaster pouring single-origin espresso and filter from its own beans.
TipThe Mount Vernon Marketplace cafe is the city's busiest Ceremony; the bar pulls a clean espresso.
Domestique Coffee ★ 4.8
Domestique Coffee on 6th Avenue South in Lakeview Birmingham is the cycling-named production roastery, with the Dawn Patrol Homewood cafe and a Lakeview.
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