Buenos Aires · Argentina
Coffee Town
Coffee Town is one of 5 Buenos Aires roasters tracked on day9, in CABA.
Overview
Coffee Town opened inside Mercado de San Telmo at Bolívar 976 in Buenos Aires after years of green-coffee travel through Latin America and Africa by its founders, who built the brand around offering producing-country specialty lots at fair domestic prices. The shop is regularly cited by international observers — including Sprudge — as a pioneer of specialty coffee in Argentina, a wine-first culture historically dominated by Italian-style espresso. Coffee Town has produced national champions, including Augustina Román, who represented Argentina at the 2013 World Barista Championship. The brand operates a roastery and offers a curated catalog of coffees from South America and Africa.
Known for
- Pioneer of Argentine specialty coffee per Sprudge — anchored inside the historic Mercado de San Telmo (1897 building)
- Founded after the team's years of green-coffee travel through Latin America and Africa
- Augustina Román, their barista, represented Argentina at 2013 World Barista Championship
- Multi-origin specialty roasting program covering South America and Africa
- One of Buenos Aires's longest-running specialty operations (operational by early 2010s)
Why it matters
Coffee Town is Argentina's foundational specialty coffee café and roaster — predating most of Buenos Aires's third-wave operators and producing one of the country's first World Barista Championship competitors in Augustina Román (2013). Its location inside the Mercado de San Telmo — a 1897 covered market that's a major Buenos Aires tourist destination — means the brand functions as a default introduction to Argentine specialty coffee for both visitors and locals, anchoring the city's coffee culture in a wine country that came late to the third wave.
Production
- filter equipment
- V60, AeroPress, Chemex
- roastery location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Café
Bolívar 976, Mercado de San Telmo, CABA
Recognitions
- Augustina Román: 2013 World Barista Championship — Argentina representative