Café Barista

Overview

Café Barista is Curaçao's first and oldest coffee roastery, founded in 2004 and operating now as a multi-location roaster-cafe-restaurant chain across the island. The Coffee Factory production arm uses a hot-air fluid-bed roaster and imports green Arabica beans direct from Colombia, hand-selected by Colombian specialists in the country's top coffee regions.

Known for

• Curaçao FIRST 2004
• fluid-bed hot-air roasting
• Colombian Arabica Premium direct from origin
• evolution from coffee shop to full-service restaurant
• Coffee Factory wholesale supply across Dutch Caribbean

Why it matters

Curaçao's specialty scene now includes Curacao Island Coffee Roasters (Fabian, first SCA-certified Curaçao roaster, Pietermaai 25 inside Van Gogh Coffees) and others, but Café Barista predates the third-wave by nearly a decade and remains the household name. The fluid-bed roaster choice is technically distinctive — most Caribbean micro-roasters use drum roasters.

Production

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head roaster

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color sorting

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roaster machine

fluid-bed hot-air roaster

filter equipment

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cupping frequency

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roastery location

Willemstad, Curaçao

espresso equipment

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annual volume tonnes

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Café

This roaster operates a café.

Sources

• https://cafebaristainternational.com/
• https://www.avilabeachhotel.com/curacao-tips/food-drinks/sip-and-savor-top-coffee-places-in-curacao/