Antigua Specialty Coffee
Tirana · Albania
Antigua Caffe was founded in Tirana in 1995 by Julia Bozo's family, opening Albania's first specialty coffee roastery at
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Tirana · Albania
Antigua Caffe was founded in Tirana in 1995 by Julia Bozo's family, opening Albania's first specialty coffee roastery at
Quiculungo · Angola
Café Cazengo was launched in 2009 by the Miguel family of Cuanza Norte — coffee farmers for several generations before t
English Harbour · Antigua and Barbuda
Carib Bean Coffee Roasters has been operating from a hilltop on Horsford Hill above Falmouth Harbour since 1997, making
Buenos Aires · Argentina
Café Registrado was an early specialty pioneer in Buenos Aires's Palermo neighborhood, building one of Argentina's first
Buenos Aires · Argentina
Coffee Town opened inside Mercado de San Telmo at Bolívar 976 in Buenos Aires after years of green-coffee travel through
Buenos Aires · Argentina
Felix Felicis & Co. opened in Palermo Soho in early 2015, founded by Lattente alumna Natalia Montoya together with thre
Buenos Aires · Argentina
LAB was founded in 2014 by Alexis Zagdañski and Paula Zyssholtz in Palermo Hollywood, Buenos Aires, with a two-storey Hu
Buenos Aires · Argentina
Lattente was opened in Palermo Soho in 2011 by Daniel Cifuentes — a Colombian who represented Argentina at the 2012 Worl
Oranjestad · Aruba
Aruba Coffee Roasting Company brands itself as Aruba's first and only micro-roaster, operating as a roastery and a conne
Melbourne · Australia
Axil was founded in 2010 by husband-and-wife team David Makin — a two-time Australian Barista Champion — and Zoe Delany,
Melbourne · Australia
Code Black was founded by Joseph Haddad in Brunswick, Melbourne, in 2012 with the explicit goal of making high-end speci
Perth · Australia
Five Senses was founded in 2000 by Dean Gallagher in a Perth shed, after Gallagher returned from a stint as a school pri
Fitzroy · Australia
Industry Beans is an independent specialty roaster founded by brothers Trevor and Steve Simmons, who started roasting in
Melbourne · Australia
Market Lane was founded in 2009 by Fleur Studd and Jason Scheltus, two Melburnians who met working at Anita Le Roy's Mon
Sydney · Australia
Mecca Coffee was founded in 2005 by former-musician-turned-cafe-owner Paul Geshos, who opened a compact espresso bar on
Canberra · Australia
Ona Coffee was founded in Canberra by Bosnian-Australian Sasa Sestic — a former handball Olympian — who won the 2015 Wor
Melbourne · Australia
Marinus Jansen, a software engineer with no prior coffee background, started Padre in late 2007/early 2008 in Brunswick
Melbourne · Australia
Patricia opened in December 2011 in a tiny laneway off Little Bourke Street in Melbourne's CBD as a joint venture betwee
Collingwood · Australia
Proud Mary was founded in 2009 in Collingwood, Melbourne by husband-and-wife Nolan and Shari Hirte; Nolan was an early A
Sydney · Australia
Russell Beard sold his Mosman micro-roastery The Source and opened Reuben Hills on New Year's Day 2012, building a roast
Sydney · Australia
Sample Coffee was founded in 2011 by Reuben Mardan as a single-shopfront espresso bar on Devonshire Street in Surry Hill
Melbourne · Australia
Seven Seeds was founded in 2007 by Mark Dundon and Bridget Amor, who took the company's name from the seventeenth-centur
Sydney · Australia
Single O was founded in 2003 in Surry Hills by husband-and-wife Emma and Dion Cohen, who left corporate jobs to open a s
South Melbourne · Australia
ST. ALi opened in 2005 in a converted South Melbourne warehouse by Mark Dundon — who later founded Seven Seeds — and was
Sydney · Australia
Toby's Estate began in 1997 when Toby Smith — a Sydney lawyer who had become obsessed with coffee — left law to start ro
Vienna · Austria
Jonas Reindl was founded by Philip Feyer, who opened the original café in Vienna's 9th district across from the Schotten
Vienna · Austria
Süssmund was founded in 2014 by Nikolaus Hartmann, who left a career as an architect after concluding his vision of slow
Gregory Town · Bahamas
Bahamas Coffee Roasters opened in 2008 on the island of Eleuthera, founded by Canadian transplants Kirk and Patti Aulin,
Dhaka · Bangladesh
North End Coffee Roasters was founded in Dhaka in 2011 by American expats Rick Hubbard — a former Starbucks Coffee Maste
Bridgetown · Barbados
Wyndhams Coffee is Barbados's only dedicated specialty coffee roaster, founded in 2014 by husband-and-wife team Mandy an
Minsk · Belarus
Kitchen Coffee Roasters, known locally as KCR, is a Minsk-based specialty roastery, café, importer and barista school op
Antwerp · Belgium
Caffènation was founded in 2003 in Antwerp by Rob Berghmans, who opened what is widely credited as the first specialty c
Brussels · Belgium
MOK was founded in 2012 in Leuven by then-21-year-old Jens Crabbé, a two-time Belgian Cup Tasters Champion who scraped h
Aalst · Belgium
OR Coffee Roasters was founded in 2001 in Aalst, East Flanders, by Tom Janssen — whose grandfather and uncle had been co
Hamilton · Bermuda
Rock Island Coffee was started in 1995 by Susannah Frith and Mark Kaufman in an old machine shop next to Hamilton's orig
Paro · Bhutan
Bhutan Mountain Coffee was founded in 2015 by Karma Chime as a single café and roastery in Paro after a trip to Utrecht
La Paz · Bolivia
Café Buena Vista is the consumer-facing brand of the Rodriguez family's Agricafe operation, a 35-plus-year Bolivian prod
Sarajevo · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ministry of Ćejf is a Sarajevo specialty café-and-roastery in the city's Old Town opened by former Australian actor Resh
Gaborone · Botswana
Gaborone Coffee Company is Botswana's documented in-country specialty roaster, born from the founders' frustration at no
São Paulo · Brazil
Isabela Raposeiras — flamenco dancer, English teacher, airplane pilot, Q grader and Brazil's first National Barista Cham
Curitiba · Brazil
Lucca Cafés Especiais opened on June 7, 2002 in Curitiba's Batel district — founded by Georgia Franco and her husband Lu
São Paulo · Brazil
Octavio Café is the consumer brand of O'Coffee, the Quércia family's coffee enterprise rooted in more than a century of
São Paulo · Brazil
Marco Suplicy opened Suplicy Cafés Especiais in July 2003 in the upscale Jardins neighbourhood of São Paulo, the first d
West End, Tortola · British Virgin Islands
Roast Van Dyke is the British Virgin Islands' first dedicated specialty coffee roastery, located in Soper's Hole at Tort
Bandar Seri Begawan · Brunei
Kapra Coffee is Brunei's first third-wave specialty coffee bar, opening on Jalan Muara in Bandar Seri Begawan and servin
Sofia · Bulgaria
Dabov Specialty Coffee was founded in 2008 by husband-and-wife team Jordan Dabov and Vesela Vladimirova, who returned to
Invermere · CA
Kicking Horse was founded in 1996 by Elana Rosenfeld and Leo Johnson in a garage in Invermere, B.C., after the couple so
Phnom Penh · Cambodia
BROWN was started in 2009 (incorporated 2010) by four Cambodian cousins who came home from study abroad — Chang Bunleang
Douala (and Yaoundé) · Cameroon
Brûlerie Moderne is Cameroon's leading specialty coffee roaster, anchored in Douala with a second retail location at the
Vancouver · Canada
49th Parallel was founded in Vancouver in 2004 by brothers Vince Piccolo (CEO) and Michael Piccolo (Head Roaster), openi
Ottawa · Canada
Bridgehead was originally founded in Toronto in 1981 as Bridgehead Trading by two United Church ministers and two social
Toronto · Canada
De Mello — originally De Mello Palheta, named for the Portuguese explorer Francisco de Melo Palheta who carried coffee s
Hamilton · Canada
Kaelin McCowan founded Detour in 2009 in a back alley in Dundas, Ontario, after driving across the country to buy a roas
Calgary · Canada
Monogram was founded in 2014 in Calgary by Jeremy Ho, Justin Eyford, and Ben Put — three Phil & Sebastian alumni who lau
Calgary · Canada
Phil & Sebastian was founded in March 2007 by Phil Robertson and Sebastian Sztabzyb, two University of Calgary engineeri
Toronto · Canada
Pilot was founded in May 2009 in Leslieville, Toronto by Andy Wilkin — a freshly-minted Q Grader from the Te Aro neighbo
George Town · Cayman Islands
Paradise Coffee was founded in 2006 by Fritz Sajovitz, who opened his own roastery on Grand Cayman in 2012 after six yea
Bern · CH
Adrianos opened in 1998 next to Bern's Zytglogge clock tower and was Switzerland's first 'Shop-in-Roastery' — a single v
Santiago · Chile
Café Triciclo started around 2013 as a literal coffee tricycle — founder Sebastián 'Seba' Álvarez rolled it through Sant
Santiago · Chile
Singular Coffee Roasters was founded by Camilo Vásquez, who began as a barista in Santiago before an Ethiopian single-or
Beijing · China
Greybox opened its first store in late December 2016 on the ground floor of the Beijing Kerry Centre in Chaoyang's Centr
Shanghai · China
M Stand was founded in 2017 in Shanghai by Ge Dong, who positioned the brand from day one as 'China's Starbucks for the
Shanghai · China
Manner Coffee was founded in 2015 in Shanghai by former veterinarian Han Yulong and his wife Lu Jianxia, opening with a
Shanghai · China
Seesaw was founded by former Dell test engineer Tom Zong in October 2012 with a first store on Yuyuan Road in Shanghai's
Bogotá · Colombia
Luis Fernando Vélez was a dried-flower exporter when a 1992 trip to a London flower fair taught him to make coffee in a
Caicedonia · Colombia
Café Granja La Esperanza traces back to 1945, when Blanca Ligia Correa and Juan Antonio Herrera bought their first farm
Medellín · Colombia
Pergamino is the milling, exporting and roasting arm of the Echavarría family's Santa Bárbara Estate in Antioquia, found
Matavera · Cook Islands
Cook Islands Coffee Company has roasted coffee on Rarotonga since 1999, founded by Kiwi expat Neil Dearlove from his hom
Heredia · Costa Rica
Café Britt was founded in 1985 by Steve Aronson, a Bronx-born coffee broker who moved to Costa Rica in the 1970s and dis
San José · Costa Rica
Cafeoteca is a specialty coffee café, roastery, and gallery in San José's Barrio Escalante, set inside a converted 1950s
Abidjan · Côte d'Ivoire
Café Continent is Côte d'Ivoire's first specialty coffee company, founded in Abidjan by Hadi Beydoun to introduce locall
Zagreb · Croatia
Cogito grew out of Cafe u Dvorištu, a quiet downtown Zagreb courtyard café Matija Belković and Hannah Powlison Belković
Havana · Cuba
Café El Escorial sits on the corner of Plaza Vieja in Havana's restored colonial heart, in a finely-restored colonial ma
Willemstad · Curaçao
Café Barista is Curaçao's first and oldest coffee roastery, founded in 2004 and operating now as a multi-location roaste
Limassol · Cyprus
Tin Coffee Roaster was founded in 2016 in Limassol on the premise that Cypriots shouldn't have to fly somewhere else to
Prague · Czech Republic
Doubleshot was founded in 2010 in Prague by a team that had split its preparation work in two: half spent a year on coff
Prague · Czech Republic
EMA Espresso Bar opened in June 2013, founded by Kamil Skrbek and built into the ground floor of a Czech Academy of Scie
Copenhagen · Denmark
April was founded in Copenhagen in 2017 by Patrik Rolf, the Swedish-born former head of roastery at Berlin's Five Elepha
Copenhagen · Denmark
La Cabra was founded by Esben Piper in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012 as a single cafe far from the city center, then began sou
Copenhagen · Denmark
The Coffee Collective was founded in Copenhagen in 2007 by Klaus Thomsen (2006 World Barista Champion), Peter N. Dupont,
Dominica
Café La Ville (translating to 'The City Coffee') is a Dominica specialty 100% Arabica brand sourced from local farmers h
Santo Domingo · Dominican Republic
Gente de la Isla is widely cited as the Dominican Republic's first specialty coffee roastery, founded by Dominican-Frenc
Guayaquil · EC
Sweet & Coffee is Ecuador's flagship specialty cafe chain, founded in 1997 in Guayaquil by Richard Peet and Soledad Hann
Quito · Ecuador
Café Galletti was founded in 2010 by Ena Galletti and her husband as a vertically integrated specialty exporter and roas
Cairo · Egypt
Specialty Būn is the Cairo café and Cairo Coffee Collective the sister roastery of brothers Omar Nazmi and his older bro
San Salvador · El Salvador
Viva Espresso is the San Salvador roastery-cafe founded by Federico and Lily Bolaños that produced 2011 World Barista Ch
Tallinn · Estonia
Kokomo Coffee Roasters started as a pop-up on Koguva on Muhu Island in 2013 — the marine branding still references that
Addis Ababa · Ethiopia
Garden of Coffee was launched in 2016 by Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu — the soleRebels founder and World Economic Forum Young
Addis Ababa · Ethiopia
Tomoca opened in February 1953 in Addis Ababa's Piazza district as Ethiopia's first commercial coffee roastery — the nam
Sigatoka · Fiji
Bula Coffee was founded in 2011 by New Zealand-born Luke Fryett (now a dual NZ/Fiji citizen) after he found wild coffee
Helsinki · Finland
Kaffa was founded in 2007 in Helsinki by business students Svante Hampf and Benjamin Andberg, who originally planned to
Helsinki · Finland
Paulig was founded on 25 September 1876 in Helsinki by Lübeck-born trader Gustav Wilhelm Paulig, who imported colonial g
Paris · France
Belleville Brûlerie opened in September 2013 in Paris's 19th arrondissement, founded by David Nigel Flynn (formerly of T
Paris · France
Lomi was founded in 2010 by Aleaume Paturle (nicknamed 'Lomi') and Australian barista Paul Arnephy, who had run the Alto
Lyon · France
Mokxa was founded in 2011 in Lyon by Sadry, originally from Lyon, and his wife Rosamund (Rose) James, originally from Ne
Paris · France
Coutume opened in 2011 on Rue de Babylone in Paris's 7th arrondissement, founded by French roaster Antoine Netien and Au
Paris · France
L'Arbre à Café was founded in Paris in 2009 by Hippolyte Courty, a historian, gastronomy critic and trained wine taster
Papeete · French Polynesia
Kaūa'a opened in November 2022 in central Papeete on Avenue du Prince Hīnoi as French Polynesia's first dedicated specia
Berlin · Germany
19grams was founded in 2002 in Berlin-Friedrichshain as Tres Cabezas by two surfers who had discovered specialty coffee
Berlin · Germany
Bonanza was founded in 2006 in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg by South Korean-born designer Kiduk Reus and his Berlin-based pa
Berlin · Germany
Coffee Circle was founded in Berlin in 2010 by Munich management consultants Martin Elwert, Robert Rudnick and Moritz Wa
Berlin · Germany
Five Elephant was founded in summer 2010 in Kreuzberg, Berlin by Kris Schackman, an American ex-film-industry coffee ent
Frankfurt · Germany
Hoppenworth & Ploch was founded in 2008 by university classmates Matthias Hoppenworth and Julian Ploch as a coffee bar o
Hamburg · Germany
Speicherstadt Kaffeerösterei was founded in 2006 by Thimo Drews and Andreas Wessel-Ellermann, two second-generation Hamb
Berlin · Germany
Ralf Rüller — formerly a Deutsche Bank apprentice, then a corporate finance professional in Singapore, Tokyo, and Berlin
Accra · Ghana
Jamestown Coffee Company was founded in 2018 by Kwasi Osei-Kusi as a small-batch roastery in Accra that scaled from 200–
Accra · Ghana
Kawa Moka is Ghana's first specialty coffee roaster — a 100% women-owned operation founded in 2015 by Emi-Beth Aku Quant
Athens · Greece
Taf began as a Greek-coffee importer and ibrik roastery launched by brothers Yiannis and Ellias Taloumis in the early 19
St. George's · Grenada
Spice Isle Coffee is Grenada's only artisan coffee roaster, run as a husband-wife operation out of Frequente Industrial
Guatemala City · Guatemala
12 Onzas is the flagship project of the Solano family — fourth-generation coffee growers from Finca Concepción Buena Vis
Copán Ruinas · Honduras
Café Welchez is a family producer-roaster in western Honduras whose Finca Santa Isabel was bought by Don Raúl Wélchez in
Hong Kong · Hong Kong
Kapo Chiu opened the first Cupping Room in Hong Kong's Stanley Market in 2011, after starting his MBA in San Francisco a
Hong Kong · Hong Kong
Knockbox Coffee Company was opened in 2011 in Sheung Wan's Tai Ping Shan Street by Patrick Tam and Frances Lam — initial
Hong Kong · Hong Kong
Jennifer Wai-Fun Liu founded The Coffee Academïcs in Hong Kong in 2012, after a decade running the HABITŪ neighbourhood
Zagreb · HR
Eli's Caffe (Eliscaffe) opened on Ilica 63 in Zagreb on 7 September 2005 as Croatia's first specialty coffee bar, founde
Budapest · Hungary
Casino Mocca was founded in 2013 by three Hungarian competition baristas — Lajos Horváth (2013 World Cup Tasters Champio
Budapest · Hungary
Espresso Embassy opened in 2012 in central Budapest, founded by Tibor Várady, who had previously introduced filter coffe
Reykjavík · Iceland
Founded in 2008 as Kaffismiðja Íslands by Sonja Björk Grant and Ingibjörg "Imma" Jóna Sigurðardóttir, the company opened
Reykjavík · Iceland
Te & Kaffi was founded in 1984 in Reykjavík by husband-and-wife Sigmundur Dýrfjörð and Berglind Guðbrandsdóttir, who set
Gurugram · India
Blue Tokai was founded in 2013 by Matt Chitharanjan and his wife Namrata Asthana after they moved from Chennai to Delhi
Bengaluru · India
Maverick & Farmer is a bean-to-cup roaster founded in Bengaluru by three partners: Tej Thammaiah, a third-generation cof
Mumbai · India
Subko opened its first cafe in Bandra, Mumbai in early 2020 — deliberately placed on a hard-to-find street — founded by
Jakarta · Indonesia
Anomali Coffee was founded in August 2007 by Irvan Helmi (also co-founder of Pipiltin Cocoa) as one of Indonesia's first
Jakarta · Indonesia
Common Grounds emerged in 2014 from the rebranding of Pandava Coffee — a December 2012 venture by three U.S.-educated fr
Jakarta · Indonesia
Filosofi Kopi is the rare coffee shop that began as a movie set: in 2015, director Angga Dwimas Sasongko built a working
Jakarta · Indonesia
Tanamera was founded in 2013 in Jakarta's Thamrin City Office Park by Indonesian businesswoman Dini Aryani Criddle, who
Tehran · Iran
Lamiz Coffee is Iran's first specialty coffee company and coffee shop chain, established in Tehran in 2004 by Zal Enterp
Tehran · Iran
Sam Coffee Roasters was opened in 2009 by Mohammadreza Ghaffari and partners as a one-time hospitality fitout for the Sa
Iraq
Italian Coffee Company is Iraq's first documented specialty coffee operation, founded in 2011 to serve clients across Ir
Dublin · Ireland
3fe — short for Third Floor Espresso — was founded by Colin Harmon in December 2009, opening in the lobby of the Twisted
Dublin · Ireland
Cloud Picker is Dublin's first micro-roastery, founded in 2013 by Frank Kavanagh and Peter Sztal, who left careers in gr
Tel Aviv · Israel
Cafelix was founded in 2011 by German expat Philipp Schaefer and his Israeli wife Yael in south Tel Aviv. After a three
Tel Aviv · Israel
Nahat — Hebrew for relaxation or contentment — was founded in January 2015 by Dan Urieli and Assaf Bitton, two coffee pr
Milan · Italy
Cafezal is a Milanese specialty micro-roastery and café founded by Italian-Brazilian Carlos Bitencourt, whose name borro
Caivano · Italy
Caffè Borbone was founded in 1997 in Caivano, just outside Naples, by Massimo Renda — who launched it as L'Aromatika srl
Santena · Italy
Caffè Vergnano was founded in 1882 in Chieri, a small medieval town in the hills above Turin, by Domenico Vergnano — ori
Florence · Italy
Ditta Artigianale was founded in 2013 by Francesco Sanapo — a three-time Italian Barista Champion (2010, 2011, 2013) and
Forlì · Italy
Rubens Gardelli started roasting in Forlì in 2010 on a 50g roaster, taught himself the craft (no SCA courses) and went o
Nervesa della Battaglia · Italy
Hausbrandt was founded in 1892 in Trieste — then the Austro-Hungarian Empire's third city and a primary Mediterranean co
Trieste · Italy
illycaffè was founded in Trieste in 1933 by Hungarian-born accountant Francesco Illy, who two years later invented the i
Rome · Italy
Antigua Tazzadoro was founded as a Roman coffee roastery in 1944, with the bar — La Casa del Caffè al Pantheon — opening
Turin · Italy
Lavazza was founded in 1895 when Luigi Lavazza, then a 36-year-old self-taught chemist from Murisengo, bought the Droghe
Livorno · Italy
Le Piantagioni del Caffè was founded in Livorno in 1994 around a small group of friends led by Florence-based tropical a
Bussolengo · Italy
Pellini was founded in Verona in 1922 by the Pellini family as an importer and blender of officinal herbs, then pivoted
Rome · Italy
Sant'Eustachio Il Caffè opened in 1938 in Piazza Sant'Eustachio — between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon — on the site o
Kingston · Jamaica
Cafe Blue is a vertically integrated Jamaica Blue Mountain producer-roaster that planted its first coffee in the Blue Mo
Kyoto · Japan
% Arabica was founded in 2013 by Kenneth Shoji in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong, after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake destroyed h
Tokyo · Japan
Bear Pond was opened in April 2009 by Katsuyuki 'Katsu' Tanaka in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, after roughly eighteen years liv
Tokyo · Japan
Glitch was opened in April 2015 in Tokyo's Jimbocho district — a neighborhood of secondhand bookstores and historic kiss
Kyoto · Japan
Kurasu was launched in May 2013 by Yozo Otsuki, a former Goldman Sachs Tokyo banker who had moved to Sydney looking for
Karuizawa · Japan
Maruyama Coffee was founded in April 1991 when 23-year-old Kentaro Maruyama opened a small coffee operation at the Hiira
Osaka · Japan
Mel Coffee Roasters opened on January 21, 2016 in an 8.58m² space in Osaka's Shimmachi district, founded by Masahiko Fum
Tokyo · Japan
Onibus was founded in 2012 by Atsushi Sakao in Okusawa, a residential pocket of Tokyo, after Sakao trained as a barista
Tokyo · Japan
Sarutahiko was founded in September 2011 in Ebisu, Tokyo by Tomoyuki Otsuka, a former actor who left the entertainment i
Tokyo · Japan
Streamer Coffee Company was opened in Shibuya in 2010 by Hiroshi Sawada, the first Asian to win the Free Pour Latte Art
Tokyo · Japan
Masahiro Onishi opened Switch Coffee in October 2013 in a small space in Meguro, Tokyo, after training in Australia and
Tokyo · Japan
The Roastery by Nozy Coffee opened in 2014 on Harajuku's Cat Street as a collaboration between Kentaro Nojiri's Setagaya
Kingston · JM
Wallenford traces its origin to Matthew Wallen, an Irish admiral in the British Navy who sailed to Jamaica in 1746 and p
Amman · Jordan
Dimitri's Coffee was founded in Amman in 2014 by three brothers led by Hisham, who travelled through more than fifteen c
Amman · Jordan
Dimitri's Coffee is Jordan's first specialty coffee roaster, founded in Amman in 2014 by three brothers — Waleed, Salah
Kiambu · Kenya
Sasini was incorporated in 1952 as Doondu Estates Ltd with a single coffee farm in Kiambu, then known as the Kenya Colon
Nairobi · Kenya
Vava Coffee was founded in 2009 by Vava Angwenyi — a Q-grader, taekwondo black belt, and Western University-trained actu
Luang Prabang · Laos
Saffron Coffee was founded in 2006 in Luang Prabang as a 'profit-for-purpose' alternative cash crop for hill-tribe farme
Riga · Latvia
Rocket Bean was founded in Riga by Mārtiņš Dzenis (owner), Aivars Rodčenko, and Ancis Romanovskis — partners whose corpo
Beirut · Lebanon
Cafe Younes was founded in 1935 in Beirut's Bab Idriss district by Amin Younes Sr., who had spent twenty years working f
Vilnius · Lithuania
Crooked Nose & Coffee Stories was founded in 2011 by Emanuelis Ryklys, who left advertising after returning from abroad
Marrakech · MA
Bacha Coffee was originally established in 1910 inside Marrakech's Dar el Bacha palace — the Moroccan residence of Thami
Antananarivo · Madagascar
Madagascar Coffee Company (MCC) is a Madagascar-based exporter and small-batch roaster founded by Kelley and Hazen to re
Kuala Lumpur · Malaysia
VCR opened in October 2013 in a 1927 black-painted house on Jalan Galloway near Kuala Lumpur's old Pudu Jail, founded by
Malé · Maldives
Meraki Coffee Roasters was founded around 2015 in Malé by SCAA-trained Maldivian roaster Mabrouq, who imported the count
Naxxar · Malta
Lot Sixty One Coffee Malta is the Maltese franchise of the Amsterdam roastery, brought to Malta by Clayton Xuereb, who a
La Trinité · Martinique
Ti'Kafé is Martinique's only artisanal coffee roastery, founded 2012 by Maxime Constantin in the former Hardy rum distil
Chamarel · Mauritius
Café de Chamarel is the only locally-grown, locally-roasted coffee in Mauritius, planted in 1967 in the Chamarel highlan
Mexico City · Mexico
Almanegra Café — 'black soul' — opened in 2014 in Narvarte, founded by three CDMX friends including co-owner Octavio Rui
Mexico City · Mexico
BUNA was founded in 2012 by three Mexico City childhood friends — Lalo Pérez Varona, Santiago and David — who chose coff
Mexico City · Mexico
Café Avellaneda is a roughly twenty-square-meter coffee bar in Coyoacán's La Concepción neighborhood, opened by Juan Car
Marrakesh · Morocco
Bloom Coffee was founded in Marrakesh in 2016 by two friends, Adi Jansen and Tyler Van Riper, who realized the city had
Maputo · Mozambique
Café Sol is Mozambique's first dedicated specialty coffee roastery, opened May 2007 in Maputo's Sommerschield II neighbo
Yangon · Myanmar
Genius Shan Highlands Coffee was founded in late 2012 by Ngwe Tun under the family company Aung Nay Lin Htun Co., Ltd as
Swakopmund · Namibia
Slowtown Coffee Roasters is Namibia's leading specialty roaster, founded 2011 in the seaside town of Swakopmund by Denni
Kathmandu · Nepal
Himalayan Java was opened in 1999 in Kathmandu's Heritage Plaza, Kamaladi by Gagan Pradhan and Anand Gurung as Nepal's f
Amsterdam · Netherlands
Bocca was founded in 2001 by brothers Menno and Tewis Simons — Menno started in his Amsterdam garage on a small Probat a
Amsterdam · Netherlands
Two Montreal-born expats, Louis-Philippe Boucher (finance and venture capital) and Veronique Lagarde (marketing), founde
Amsterdam · Netherlands
Friedhats opened in November 2016 in Amsterdam's Bos en Lommer by Lex Wenneker — 2015 and 2016 Dutch Barista Champion, 6
Amsterdam · Netherlands
Lot Sixty One was founded in early 2013 by Australian Adam Craig — 'born in Sydney, raised in Brooklyn and roasting in A
Rotterdam · Netherlands
Manhattan was founded in March 2017 in Rotterdam by Esther Maasdam — multi-time Dutch Latte Art Champion and 2017 Dutch
Amsterdam · Netherlands
Moyee was launched in the Netherlands in 2012 by Guido van Staveren van Dijk, who built one of the largest specialty roa
Auckland · New Zealand
Allpress Espresso was established in 1986 by Michael Allpress, who left a chef career to run New Zealand's first espress
Wellington · New Zealand
Coffee Supreme began trading on August 16, 1993, when Chris Dillon and Maggie Wells acquired their café's failing bean s
Wellington · New Zealand
Three childhood friends — Richard Corney, Matt Graylee, and Nick Clark — founded Flight Coffee in a Hawke's Bay garage i
Managua · Nicaragua
Café Las Flores is a three-generation Palazio family operation that grows, processes, roasts, distributes and serves 100
Lagos · Nigeria
Café Neo was founded in 2012 by Nigerian brothers Ngozi and Chijioke Dozie, who first invested in a distressed Rwandan c
Skopje · North Macedonia
Su Roastery was opened in central Skopje in winter 2024 as the latest concept of family-owned Su Holding, reviving a cof
Oslo · Norway
Fuglen — 'the bird' in Norwegian — has occupied the same Universitetsgata corner in Oslo since 1963, when it opened as t
Oslo · Norway
Founded in 1879 by Carl Solberg and Fritjof Hansen, Solberg & Hansen is Norway's oldest and largest specialty coffee roa
Oslo · Norway
Stockfleths traces its roots to Den Danske Kaffeforretning ("The Danish Coffee Shop"), opened in Oslo in 1895. Astri St
Oslo · Norway
Supreme Roastworks was founded in 2007 in a Torshov garage in Oslo by Magnus Lindskog and Joar Christoffersen, both form
Oslo · Norway
Talormade is the Oslo roastery, doughnut bakery and cafe chain founded by Australian-born Talor Browne after she lost he
Oslo · Norway
Tim Wendelboe — 2004 World Barista Champion and World Cup Tasters Champion — opened his Oslo micro-roastery and espresso
Lahore · Pakistan
Red Berry Roasters is a Lahore family-built operation founded by Abubakr Khan that markets itself as Pakistan's first th
Jerusalem (Old City) · Palestine
Izhiman Coffee is Jerusalem's heritage Palestinian coffee roastery, founded 1921 in the Old City's Suq Khan a-Zeit marke
Panama City · Panama
Café Unido opened its first Panama City location in 2014, founded by chef Mario Castrellón of Maito (Latin America's 50
Wahgi Valley · Papua New Guinea
Sigri Estate was first planted in the 1950s by Australian crocodile hunter and pioneer settler Tom Cole in PNG's Wahgi V
Lima · Peru
Romulo Bisetti, a Peruvian of Italian descent, opened the original Bisetti coffee house in Lima's Breña district in 1958
Cebu City · Philippines
Bo's Coffee opened June 28, 1996 in Ayala Center Cebu — founder Steve Benitez had dropped out of Ateneo de Manila Law Sc
Parañaque · Philippines
Magnum Opus Fine Coffees is a single-origin specialty roaster and café in BF Homes, Parañaque, owned by a coffee enthusi
Manila · Philippines
Yardstick opened in 2013 in Legazpi Village, Makati, founded by university friends Andre Chanco, Kevin Tang, and Jessica
Opole · Poland
Hard Beans Coffee Roasters opened in 2017 in Opole as the production arm of Kofeina Art Cafe, which was crowned Best Spe
Warsaw · Poland
HAYB is a father-and-son business founded in 2016 by Wiktor Borowski and his father Robert at Aleje Jerozolimskie 200 in
Lisbon · Portugal
Fábrica Coffee Roasters opened in summer 2015 in central Lisbon, founded by Russian-born brothers — head roaster Stanisl
Lisbon · Portugal
Olisipo Coffee Roasters is a Lisbon specialty roaster owned by Antony Watson, named after the Roman name for Lisbon, and
San Juan · Puerto Rico
Gustos was founded in 1999 by Omar Torres and his wife Grisel León, beginning as a vendor of espresso and vending machin
Réunion
Le Café des Marrons is a 100% Réunion-based artisan roaster sourcing direct from Indian Ocean and African farmers (Réuni
Bucharest · Romania
Origo was founded in 2013 by Mihai Panfil, a CQI Q-grader, with a Lipscani 9 café designed by Lama Arhitectura that feat
Omsk · RU
Skuratov Coffee was founded in 2013 in Omsk, Siberia by Viktor Skuratov, who had spent a year and a half failing in the
Moscow · Russia
Double B was founded in Moscow in 2012 by Anna Tsfasman and Olga Melik-Karakozova, both veterans of the Russian chain Ko
Izhevsk · Russia
Tasty Coffee was started in 2008 in Izhevsk by Mikhail Sharov, who had been distributing Italian beans for two years bef
Kigali · Rwanda
Bourbon Coffee opened its first store at Kigali's Union Trade Centre on 2 March 2007 — the day President Kagame inaugura
Kigali · Rwanda
Question Coffee operates as a small-batch roastery and café in Kigali's Gishushu neighborhood, owned by the Sustainable
Saint Lucia
Noble-Tree is a Saint Lucia producer-roaster-chocolatier sourcing cocoa and coffee directly from local farmers and proce
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
ES Vincentian is St. Vincent's documented producer-roaster of 100% Vincentian arabica and Trinitario cacao, hand-process
Apia · Samoa
Coffee Roaster Samoa was founded in Apia by Phillip 'Pippa' Moore, who returned to Samoa after years in Auckland, New Ze
Jeddah · Saudi Arabia
Brew92 was soft-launched in July 2016 in Jeddah by Abdul Aziz Al-Musbahi (after years studying in London, where he was m
Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Camel Step (Khatwat Jamal) was founded in 2013 in Riyadh and is widely regarded as the company that pioneered Saudi Arab
Belgrade · Serbia
Kafeterija was founded in 2014 in Belgrade by Zoran Stanojević and Marko Vukomanović as a vertically integrated specialt
Victoria · Seychelles
Café Des Iles describes itself as Seychelles's only premium and specialty coffee roastery, operating from Providence on
Singapore · Singapore
Common Man Coffee Roasters was founded in 2013 by Australian entrepreneur Harry Grover in partnership with Five Senses C
Singapore · Singapore
Nylon was founded in May 2012 by Dennis Tang and Lee Jia Min — a couple who met as baristas at Papa Palheta and Loysel's
Singapore · Singapore
Leon Foo, an NTU equity-research alum who turned to coffee during the 2008 financial crisis, founded Papa Palheta in Buk
Singapore · Singapore
Mr. Tan Tiong Hoe began his coffee apprenticeship at age 16 in 1960 with the Dutch trading firm Mirandolle Voute & Co.
Bratislava · Slovakia
Goriffee Roasters is a Bratislava-based specialty coffee roastery that has been roasting fresh weekly for more than twel
Ljubljana · Slovenia
Stow was founded in 2015 by Aleš Turšič — owner and head roaster — together with Peter Ševič, an SCA-certified former pr
Johannesburg · South Africa
Bean There was founded in 2005 by siblings Jonathan and Sarah Robinson and was South Africa's first Certified Fairtrade
Johannesburg · South Africa
Father Coffee was founded in 2013 in Braamfontein, Johannesburg by Nick Christowitz, Barry Weedon, Angie Batis, and Chad
Cape Town · South Africa
Origin was founded in 2006 by Joel Singer — a Montreal-born former Microsoft program manager — and David Donde, who late
Cape Town · South Africa
Truth was founded in 2009 by David Donde — co-founder of Origin who left to do his own thing — with partner Mike Morritt
Seoul · South Korea
Anthracite Coffee opened in 2009 in Hapjeong-dong, Seoul, in a converted abandoned shoe factory — the original founder h
Seoul · South Korea
Sang-ho Park opened Center Coffee in February 2017 inside a former residential building at the edge of Seoul Forest, his
Seoul · South Korea
Coffee Libre was founded in 2009 in a small workshop in Yeonnam-dong, Seoul by Pil Hoon Seo — South Korea's first SCAA Q
Seoul · South Korea
Fritz was founded in 2014 by six friends who came to be known as Seoul's 'Avengers of coffee' — green-buyer Kim Byung-ki
Busan · South Korea
Momos was founded in 2007 by Lee Hyeon-gi (with co-leaders Jeongsoo Pak and Jooyeon Jeon) as a 140-square-foot takeaway
Barcelona · Spain
Cafés El Magnífico is a third-generation family business in Barcelona's Born district founded as the Cafés El Magnífico
Madrid · Spain
Pablo Caballero and Nolo Botana started Hola Coffee in 2015 as a specialty-coffee blog written in Spanish — at the time,
Barcelona · Spain
Nomad began in 2011 as a coffee cart Jordi Mestre ran in London street markets after years working in the city's third-w
Castelldefels · Spain
Right Side Coffee was founded in 2012 by Joaquín Parra in his parking lot in Castelldefels, just south of Barcelona, wit
Barcelona · Spain
Syra was founded on 20 October 2015 in Barcelona's Gràcia neighbourhood by Moroccan-Spanish architect Yassir Raïs while
Barcelona · Spain
Three Marks opened in Barcelona's Fort Pienc neighbourhood in 2018, founded by three friends who all share a variant of
Madrid · Spain
Toma was opened in 2011 in Malasaña by Argentine partners Patricia Alda and Santiago Rigoni, who had no hospitality or c
Ragala · Sri Lanka
Hansa Ceylon Coffee was started in the mid-1990s by Harm van Oudenhoven (Netherlands) and Lawrence Goldberg (Seattle) —
Gothenburg · Sweden
Da Matteo was founded in 2003 by ex-chef Matts Johansson when he reopened a café-with-his-family-living-upstairs in Mars
Stockholm · Sweden
Drop Coffee opened as a coffee bar near Mariatorget in Stockholm in 2009 and started roasting on a 1kg machine in the ba
Stockholm · Sweden
Johan & Nyström was founded in 2004 by Johan Wallenborg, Ola Nyström and Johan Damgaard — a group of coffee-loving frien
Helsingborg · Sweden
Koppi was founded in fall 2007 in Helsingborg by Anne Lunell and Charles Nystrand — childhood friends turned husband-and
Zurich · Switzerland
MAME was founded in October 2016 in Zurich by Emi Fukahori (Japan) and Mathieu Theis (France) — partners in life and in
Taipei · Taiwan
Fika Fika was founded in 2013 in Taipei's Zhongshan District by James Chen (Chen Chih-Huang), who had spent more than a
Taipei · Taiwan
Rufous was founded in 2007 by Xiao Yang — a Q-grader and former Italian-cuisine chef — on a tucked-away stretch of Fuxin
Taipei · Taiwan
Berg Wu opened Simple Kaffa in Taipei in 2011, after a decade selling coffee from a tricycle in Jingmei and Gongguan tha
Mbeya · Tanzania
Ridge Coffee is a Tanzanian specialty roaster founded in Mbeya, in the country's Southern Highlands, and was the first s
Mbeya · Tanzania
Utengule Coffee Estate sits at 1,400 meters on the southern slopes of the Mbeya range in Southern Tanzania, on the edge
Chiang Mai · Thailand
Lee Ayu Chuepa — born to Akha hill-tribe coffee farmers in Maejantai village, Chiang Rai — founded Akha Ama in 2010 as a
Bangkok · Thailand
Brave Roasters was founded in 2013 in Bangkok by Ekameth 'Tay' Wipvasutti as the city's first specialty coffee roaster,
Doi Chang Village · Thailand
Doi Chaang traces back to King Bhumibol's 1969 royal project replacing opium with arabica among Akha hill-tribe farmers
Bangkok · Thailand
Pacamara was started in Chiang Mai in 2009 by Chartree Treelerkul — Thailand's first SCAA-certified Q-grader and the cou
Bangkok · Thailand
Roots was founded in early 2013 by Varatt 'Tae' Vichit-Vadakan (2014 Thailand Barista Champion, who competed at WBC that
Dili · Timor-Leste
Letefoho Specialty Coffee Roaster opened on Dili's Beach Road in June 2014 as part of the Café Brisa Serena (CBS) social
Nuku'alofa · Tonga
Tupu'anga Coffee runs a farm-to-cup operation outside Nuku'alofa: they grow taro on their own farm, source coffee cherri
Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Roasters is the largest coffee roaster in the English-speaking Caribbean, headquartered in Trinidad & Tobago w
Sidi Bou Said · Tunisia
Ben Rahim is Tunisia's first specialty coffee company, opened February 2022 in the historic coastal suburb of Sidi Bou S
Istanbul · Turkey
Kronotrop opened in 2012 in Cihangir, Istanbul, founded by Çağatay Gülabioğlu — Turkey's first Q Grader. Initially roast
Istanbul · Türkiye
Coffee Department is a specialty roastery and café in Istanbul's Balat neighbourhood, on the western bank of the Golden
Providenciales · Turks and Caicos Islands
TCI Coffee Roasters is Turks and Caicos's first and only specialty coffee roaster, founded by Victoria Turner on Provide
Kampala · Uganda
Endiro Coffee was founded in 2011 in Kampala by Ugandan journalist Gloria Katusiime — who opened the first café in Kisem
Kyiv · Ukraine
Idealist Coffee was founded in 2018 in Kyiv by Volodymyr Yefremov and has grown into a full-cycle specialty operation wi
Dubai · United Arab Emirates
RAW was started in June 2007 by New Zealander Kim Thompson, who had moved to Dubai and resorted to bringing specialty be
Dubai · United Arab Emirates
The Espresso Lab was opened in May 2015 by Emirati entrepreneur Ibrahim Hamza Al Mallouhi after a 2011 cappuccino at Fik
Nottingham · United Kingdom
200 Degrees started in 2012 in a Nottingham garage when co-founders Rob Darby and Tom Vincent — frustrated with the bad
London · United Kingdom
Algerian Coffee Stores was founded in 1887 at 52 Old Compton Street in Soho by an Algerian merchant remembered as Mr Has
London · United Kingdom
Assembly was launched at the London Coffee Festival in April 2015 as the headline sponsor of the inaugural Coffee Master
Lancaster · United Kingdom
Atkinsons opened in 1837 as the Grasshopper Tea Warehouse — one of five tea merchants in the Georgian port of Lancaster
London · United Kingdom
Caravan was founded in February 2010 on Exmouth Market by three New Zealanders — Laura Harper-Hinton, Chris Ammermann an
London · United Kingdom
Climpson & Sons started in 2002 as Burgil Coffee, a market stall founded by Ian Burgess after he returned from five year
Whitworth · United Kingdom
Operating since 2015 in Whitworth, Lancashire, Clumsy Goat began as a specialty roaster with a 100% Fairtrade and organi
Ammanford · United Kingdom
Coaltown Coffee Roasters was founded in 2018 in Ammanford, an anthracite-mining town in the Amman Valley whose last coll
Glasgow · United Kingdom
Dear Green was founded in Glasgow in 2011 by Lisa Lawson — Toby's Estate Sydney's first-ever employee, who had spent two
Bristol · United Kingdom
Extract was founded in 2007 in a Bristol garden shed by David Faulkner, Lee Bolam, and Marc Richards, who outgrew it to
Sheffield · United Kingdom
Foundry was founded in 2012 in Sheffield by Lee, who is widely credited as Sheffield's first specialty coffee roaster. T
Aberfeldy · United Kingdom
Glen Lyon was founded in 2011 by Jamie Grant and Fiona Grant, journalists who had met in South America and returned to S
Manchester · United Kingdom
James Guard founded a garage-roasting operation called The Coffee Circle in Manchester in 2012 after getting fed up with
London · United Kingdom
Kiss the Hippo was founded in 2018 by Can Eren in Richmond-upon-Thames, with a separate roastery built around a Loring S
London · United Kingdom
Monmouth was founded in 1978 by Nicholas Saunders and Anita Le Roy in the basement of 27 Monmouth Street in Covent Garde
Liverpool · United Kingdom
Chris Holloway and Ed Peck — both ex-Schluter green coffee importers (the African coffee specialists since absorbed into
Leeds · United Kingdom
North Star was Leeds's first coffee roastery, founded in 2013 by Holly and Alex Kragiopoulos at the age of 22 after they
London · United Kingdom
Notes was started in 2008 in Victoria, central London, when Robert Robinson — running a coffee cart at Strutton Ground —
Helston · United Kingdom
Origin Coffee was founded in 2004 in Helston, Cornwall by Tom Sobey and produced what the company describes as the first
London · United Kingdom
Ozone Coffee was founded in 1998 by Karen and the late Jamie Hodson in the surf town of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, Taranaki
London · United Kingdom
Qima Coffee was founded in London in 2016 by British-Yemeni Faris Sheibani, a Cambridge-trained chemical engineer who le
Birmingham · United Kingdom
Quarter Horse was founded as a cafe in Oxford in 2012 by husband-and-wife Nathan and Ameeta Retzer, then relocated to Am
Radstock · United Kingdom
Round Hill was founded in 2012 by Eddie Twitchett, a hospitality worker in Bath who took roasting courses with Morten Mu
London · United Kingdom
Square Mile was founded in London in 2008 by James Hoffmann (2007 World Barista Champion) and Anette Moldvaer (2007 Worl
London · United Kingdom
Union Hand-Roasted Coffee was founded in 2001 by Jeremy Torz and Steven Macatonia after they had spent 1995–2000 supplyi
London · United Kingdom
WatchHouse was founded in 2014 by Roland Horne in a former 19th-century watch house at the southern end of Bermondsey St
London · United Kingdom
Workshop was founded in April 2011 by James Dickson in Clerkenwell, London, originally co-branded as a London outpost of
Amherst · United States
A&E Coffee Roastery is the husband-and-wife project of Adam and Emeran Langmaid, who began roasting half-pound batches i
Thornton · United States
Allegro Coffee was founded in 1977 in Boulder by Jeffrey Cohn as one of the first certified organic coffee roasters in t
Omaha · United States
Archetype was founded in May 2014 by Isaiah Sheese, who moved from Milwaukee to Omaha after working at Doubleshot and To
Hilo · United States
Big Island Coffee Roasters started in 2010 when Kelleigh Stewart (former Q-Grader) and Brandon von Damitz answered a Cra
New York · United States
Birch was founded in 2009 by Jeremy Lyman and Paul Schlader, who met in a 12-step program in 2005 and opened the first s
San Diego · United States
Bird Rock Coffee Roasters was founded by Chuck Patton, who started home-roasting in his La Jolla garage in 2001 with a r
Wake Forest · United States
Black & White was founded in 2017 in Wake Forest, North Carolina by back-to-back US Barista Champions Lem Butler (2016)
Richmond · United States
Blanchard's Coffee Roasting Co. was founded in January 2005 by 25-year-old David Blanchard, a Richmond native and Unive
Oakland · United States
James Freeman, a former professional clarinetist, started Blue Bottle in 2002 in a 186-square-foot potting shed in Oakla
St. Louis · United States
Blueprint opened on the Delmar Loop in University City in 2013, founded by Mike Marquard (formerly of Half & Half) and a
Boulder · United States
Boxcar was founded in 2010 by husband-and-wife team Vajra and Cara Rich, who had moved from Vashon Island near Seattle t
Wilmington · United States
Brandywine Coffee Roasters was founded in 2015 by Alisa Morkides as the dedicated roastery arm of Brew HaHa!, the nine-s
Burlington · United States
Brio was founded in 2014 by husband-and-wife Nate and Magda Van Dusen — both former Washington, DC international develop
Cambridge · United States
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters is a Cambridge-based specialty roaster known for technical precision and an unusually broad f
Tampa · United States
Buddy Brew was founded by husband-and-wife Dave and Susan Ward, who began roasting on a Diedrich IR-7 in their South Tam
Brooklyn · United States
Cafe Grumpy was founded in 2005 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn by married couple Caroline Bell and Chris Timbrell, who opened w
Seattle · United States
Caffè Vita was founded on January 1, 1995 in Seattle's Lower Queen Anne neighbourhood by Mike McConnell and Michael Prin
Bellingham · United States
Camber is a small Bellingham roaster founded in 2015 by three Q-grader colleagues — David Yake, Andrew Bowman, and Todd
Tempe · United States
Cartel was founded in 2008 by Tucson native Jason Silberschlag and his wife Amy in Tempe, Arizona, after a chance encoun
Santa Cruz · United States
Cat & Cloud was founded in September 2016 by Chris Baca, Jared Truby, and Charles Jack — three Verve Coffee veterans (Tr
Annapolis · United States
Ceremony was founded in 2002 by Vincent Iatesta, who taught himself to roast and pull espresso while studying internatio
Portland · United States
Coava was founded in 2008 by Matt Higgins in his North Portland garage, bootstrapped by motorcycle repair until he could
Sioux Falls · United States
Coffea Roasterie launched in 2009 in Sioux Falls and is South Dakota's leading specialty coffee operation, run today by
New York · United States
Founded in 2019 by brothers Nick and Dan Hunnewell, Coffee Bros. is a two-person specialty roaster operating out of a Ne
San Francisco · United States
Coffee Manufactory was founded in fall 2016 as the in-house roasting arm of Tartine Bakery — co-founders Chad Robertson
Washington · United States
Compass was founded by Marines Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez, who met at Washington University in St. Louis, served
Denver · United States
Phil Goodlaxson — Northern Illinois University marketing graduate, Dell Computers refugee, Starbucks store manager turne
Durham · United States
Founded in 1995 by Brett Smith and Fred Houk — who met at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and were inspired by the Smi
Columbus · United States
Crimson Cup was founded in May 1991 by 23-year-old Greg Ubert, a recent Harvard graduate who quit a software-engineering
Spicewood · United States
Cuvée was founded in 1998 by Mike McKim — a former Navy enlistee turned telecom-fiber salesman — after a 1997 winter ski
Brooklyn · United States
Devoción was launched in 2006 by Medellín-born Steven Sutton, who runs his own dry mill in Bogotá and air-freights green
Minneapolis · United States
Dogwood was founded in 2010 in Minneapolis by Dan Anderson and Greg Hoyt — Anderson left commercial real estate, Hoyt br
Post Falls · United States
DOMA was founded in 2000 by husband-and-wife team Terry and Rebecca Patano, who started in a garage in the North Idaho P
Truckee · United States
DCDS was founded in 2017 in Truckee by former pro snowboarder Nick Visconti, after the brand's mantra 'extraordinary cof
Atlanta · United States
East Pole was founded in 2015 by high-school friends Jared Karr and Jules Tompkins (with early partner Matt Chesla) afte
San Rafael · United States
Equator was founded in 1995 by life and business partners Helen Russell and Brooke McDonnell, who started roasting in a
Seattle · United States
Espresso Vivace was founded in 1988 by former Boeing metrology technician David C. Schomer — also a Cornish College BFA
New Orleans · United States
French Truck was founded in April 2012 by New England Culinary Institute alum Geoffrey Meeker, who started microroasting
Acton · United States
George Howell — sometimes called the godfather of U.S. specialty coffee — opened The Coffee Connection in Harvard Square
Austin · United States
Greater Goods was founded in 2015 by husband-and-wife team Trey Cobb and Khanh Trang in the Texas Hill Country, after Co
Chicago · United States
Halfwit was launched in 2012 as the in-house roasting arm of Travis Schaffner's Wormhole Coffee — a Wicker Park cafe tha
Portland · United States
Founded in October 2009 by Wille and Rebekah Yli-Luoma — Wille a Finnish former professional snowboarder who learned to
Des Moines · United States
Horizon Line was opened in 2017 by Brad Penna and Nam Ho, two Southern California friends and former higher-education co
Denver · United States
Huckleberry was founded in Denver in 2011 by Koan Goedman and Mark Mann, who met as customer and barista at a Denver cof
Santa Fe · United States
Iconik opened in May 2013 as Santa Fe's second in-house roasting cafe, founded by siblings Darren Berry and Natalie Slad
Chicago · United States
Doug Zell and Emily Mange opened Intelligentsia on October 9, 1995 in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood as a single cafe-a
New York · United States
Joe Coffee was founded in 2003 by Jonathan Rubinstein, a former Manhattan talent agent, with his immediate family — his
Murfreesboro · United States
Founded in 2009 by Rob Webb after returning from Ethiopia with two adopted children, Just Love Coffee Roasters started a
Anchorage · United States
Kaladi Brothers began in spring 1986 as a single espresso cart on Anchorage's 4th Avenue and grew into Alaska's defining
Rancho Cucamonga · United States
Klatch was founded in 1993 by Mike and Cindy Perry as 'Coffee Klatch' at the Thomas Winery Plaza in Rancho Cucamonga; Mi
Seattle · United States
Kuma was started in 2008 by Mark Barany in his Seattle garage — Barany had spent his teenage years in Nairobi where his
Philadelphia · United States
La Colombe was founded in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in 1994 by Todd Carmichael and JP Iberti, who met working at
Grand Rapids · United States
Madcap was founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2008 by Trevor Corlett and Ryan Knapp, after Corlett's earlier coffee ve
Greenville · United States
Methodical opened on February 11, 2015 in downtown Greenville with pennies in the bank and a line out the door, founded
Chicago · United States
Metropolis was founded in December 2003 by father-and-son Jeff and Tony Dreyfuss in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, af
Jersey City · United States
Modcup was started in 2013 by Travas Clifton — a former art dealer to yacht owners and cruise lines who first encountere
San Diego · United States
Mostra was founded in 2013 in San Diego by four Filipino-American friends — Beverly Magtanong (opera background), Sam Ma
Oakland · United States
Carlo Di Ruocco — Salerno-born, apprenticed to a wood-fire-roasting master in his native Italy as a teenager, then train
Providence · United States
New Harvest Coffee Roasters was founded in 2000 by Rik Kleinfeldt and Paula Anderson, with Kleinfeldt initially roasting
Olympia · United States
Olympia Coffee was founded by Oliver Stormshak and Sam Schroeder as a wholesale roaster on a 12-kilo Diedrich, and now o
Rogers · United States
Founded in May 2012 by husband-and-wife Jon and Andrea Allen — two former Arsaga's baristas from Northwest Arkansas — On
Miami · United States
Panther was founded in 2010 by coffee veterans Joel and Leticia Pollock, who arrived in Miami from a cross-country road
Brooklyn · United States
Parlor was founded in 2012 by Dillon Edwards — then a 22-year-old Stumptown and Blue Bottle alumnus from Portland — oper
Brooklyn · United States
Founded in Williamsburg in 2012 by childhood friends Amber Jacobsen and Adam Boyd as Toby's Estate New York — the U.S. l
Chicago · United States
Joshua Millman founded Passion House in 2011 — the same day his daughter Bayla was born — after starting in coffee at a
Emeryville · United States
Peet's was founded April 1, 1966 by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peet at the corner of Vine and Walnut in Berkeley — widely cr
Savannah · United States
PERC was founded in 2010 in a 350-square-foot rented former cooler at the Starland Dairy in Savannah by musician-turned-
San Francisco · United States
Port of Mokha is a San Francisco coffee company founded in 2013 by Mokhtar Alkhanshali, an American of Yemeni descent wh
Phoenix · United States
Press was founded in November 2008 by Steve Kraus (a TV broadcasting professional, hence the name 'Press' — coffee press
Topeka · United States
PT's was founded in 1993 in Topeka by photojournalist Jeff Taylor (T) and fast-food restaurant manager Fred Polzin (P) a
Louisville · United States
Quills was founded in 2007 in Louisville's Germantown neighborhood by social-worker-turned-roaster Nathan Quillo and his
Oakland · United States
Red Bay was founded in early 2014 by photojournalist and visual artist Keba Konte, who taught himself to roast on a Whir
San Francisco · United States
Eileen Hassi Rinaldi founded Ritual on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District in 2005, opening the city's f
Portland · United States
Roseline Coffee was founded in 2012 in Portland by Marty Lopes after he had spent years roasting at Extracto and curatin
Birmingham · United States
Royal Cup traces back to 1896, when Henry T. Batterton — Alabama's first commercial coffee roaster — sold coffee from a
Nelsonville · United States
Ruby was founded in fall 2013 by Jared and Deanna Linzmeier, with the first batches roasted in early 2014 from the garag
San Francisco · United States
Kevin Bohlin — a former middle school teacher from northern Texas with a background in theology and cultural anthropolog
Salt Lake City · United States
Salt Lake Roasting Co. was founded in 1981 by chef John Bolton, who started roasting at night in a Sandy warehouse on a
Seattle · United States
Founded in 2006 by Sean Lee in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood, Seven Coffee Roasters takes its name from the Japanese
Brooklyn · United States
Lance Schnorenberg and Tobin Polk — friends since dishwashing together at Espresso Vivace in Seattle, who share the same
San Francisco · United States
Sightglass was founded in 2009 by Oregon-born brothers Jerad and Justin Morrison with a service cart in a SoMa warehouse
Madison · United States
Singing Rooster was founded in 2009 in Madison, Wisconsin by husband-and-wife volunteers Molly and Christophe Nicaise, w
Seattle · United States
Slate is a Seattle family business launched in 2013 by sister-and-brother Chelsey Walker-Watson and Keenan Walker with t
Washington · United States
Slipstream opened its original Logan Circle cafe at 1333 14th Street NW in 2014 — a family-owned, multi-roaster coffee b
Jackson · United States
Snake River Roasting Co. was founded in 2007 by Ruth Ann Petroff and her husband Mark Barron, who pivoted out of runnin
Grand Rapids · United States
Sparrows opened on Grand Rapids's Wealthy Street in 2007 as The Stray Dog Cafe under Lori Slager (now Slager Wenzel) but
Portland · United States
Andrea Spella — raised above his grandmother's European bakery in Chicago, with family roots in Southern Italy — opened
Minneapolis · United States
Spyhouse opened its first cafe on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis's Whittier neighborhood in 2000, founded by Christian J
Bainbridge Island · United States
Storyville was founded in 2006 on Bainbridge Island, Washington by Jon Phelps — earlier co-founder of Full Sail Universi
Portland · United States
Stumptown is one of the foundational third-wave specialty coffee brands in America, founded in Portland in 1999 by Duane
St. Louis · United States
Sump opened December 1, 2011 on South Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis, founded by former NYC patent attorney Scott Carey a
Lakewood · United States
Andy Sprenger and his wife Laurel founded Sweet Bloom in December 2013 in Lakewood, the Denver suburb where Andy grew up
Portland · United States
Will and Kathleen Pratt — both Blue Bottle alumni who first met as baristas at Boston's Espresso Royale (now Pavement Co
Kansas City · United States
The Roasterie was founded in November 1993 in the basement of Danny O'Neill's Brookside home in Kansas City, after the I
Indianapolis · United States
Tinker was founded in early 2014 by brothers-in-law Stephen Hall and Jeff Johnson — Hall a wine industry veteran, Johnso
Tulsa · United States
Topeca is the U.S.-based roasting arm of a six-generation Salvadoran coffee family that traces back to Santiago Díaz-Các
Bozeman · United States
Treeline was founded in August 2013 by Natalie Van Dusen as Little Red Wagon Coffee Roasters, after a cross-country moto
Brooklyn · United States
Variety was founded in 2008 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn by Gavin Compton, who took the name and signage from the previous
Santa Cruz · United States
Founded November 19, 2007 by Chico State friends and former musicians Ryan O'Donovan and Colby Barr — the latter from a
Las Vegas · United States
Vesta was founded in 2015 by Jerad Howard (also credited as Jerad Jay) as a home-roasting operation in his downtown Las
New Haven · United States
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea was founded in 1985 by Bob Williams and Barry Levine on Chapel Street in New Haven and is reco
Viroqua · United States
Wonderstate was founded in 2005 in Viroqua, Wisconsin's Driftless Region as Kickapoo Coffee — Caleb Nicholes started a s
San Francisco · United States
Wrecking Ball was founded by married coffee lifers Trish Rothgeb — credited with coining the term 'third wave' in a 2002
Montevideo · Uruguay
MVD Roaster was founded in Montevideo in 2014 by Alvaro Planzo, who had become one of the first SCAE-certified Uruguayan
Port Vila · Vanuatu
Tanna Coffee Development Company was founded in 1982 to revive Vanuatu's coffee industry shortly after the country's ind
Caracas · Venezuela
Espresso Carbone is the Caracas specialty bar founded by Italian-Venezuelan Pietro Carbone, who in 2009 opened one of th
Da Nang · Vietnam
43 Factory Coffee Roaster opened in Da Nang in 2018 as one of central Vietnam's first dedicated specialty operations, fo
Da Lat · Vietnam
La Viet was founded in 2013 in Da Lat — the heart of Vietnam's Central Highlands arabica region — by Tran Nhat Quang, wh
Ho Chi Minh City · Vietnam
The Workshop occupies the top floor of a 1912 French colonial building in Saigon's District 1, accessed through a discre
Buôn Ma Thuột · Vietnam
Trung Nguyên was founded on June 16, 1996 in Buôn Ma Thuột — Vietnam's coffee capital — by Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ and his the
Lusaka · Zambia
Marika's Coffee is Zambia's flagship specialty roaster, founded 2007 in Lusaka by Finnish-born Q-grader Teija Kuusela Lu