Willemstad · Curaçao
Café Barista
Since 2004
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
- roaster machine
- fluid-bed hot-air roaster
- roastery location
- Willemstad, Curaçao
Café
This roaster operates a café.