Roasteries & coffee shops: Roasteries — A–Z

Roasteries (57)

• Angelino’s Coffee — The California specialty roaster that holds the all-time Cup of Excellence auction record.
• Axil Coffee Roasters — The Hawthorn roastery and Melbourne café group founded by Dave Makin and Zoe Delaney that produced two World Barista Champions in four years — Anthony Douglas in 2022 and Jack Simpson in 2025 — and built a training school and a national wholesale business around them.
• Big Sur Coffee — The Shanghai roastery, founded in 2016, that sells almost nothing but single-origin coffee — a Panama Geisha–heavy list sold in 30 and 60 gram bags, roasted light on Loring machines in Xuhui District.
• Blue Bottle Coffee — The Oakland roaster that turned a farmers-market cart into the polished face of third-wave coffee, sold most of itself to Nestlé in 2017 — and was sold on again in 2026, at a loss, to the Chinese fund that controls Luckin.
• Boo Coffee Roasters — The two-year-old Anderlecht roastery, run by Benjamin Brassart and Benoit out of a converted Brussels factory, whose head roaster won the 2026 World Coffee Roasting Championship in his own city.
• Brandywine Coffee Roasters — The Wilmington, Delaware roaster that screen-prints every coffee bag by hand with original illustrations, roasts light on a 15-kilo Loring, and won the 2024–25 Sprudge Design Award for Outstanding In-House Design Team.
• Cafe Bach — The Tokyo coffee house, open since 1968, that built its reputation on removing bad beans by hand rather than on chasing rare lots — and whose founder Mamoru Taguchi trained a nationwide network of independent shops.
• Café de l’Ambre — The single-room Ginza coffee shop, open since 1948, that serves nothing but coffee — and that built its reputation on deliberately ageing green beans for years or decades before roasting them, the exact opposite of what the rest of specialty coffee does.
• Cafe Kreyol — The Virginia importer-roaster built around rebuilding Haiti’s collapsed coffee industry — Roast magazine’s 2023 Macro Roaster of the Year, and one of the few US companies whose whole business case is a single origin’s recovery.
• Café Paulista — The Ginza coffee house and roaster set up in 1910 to give away free Brazilian government coffee in Japan — the oldest Japanese coffee shop still trading, and the reason a generation of Japanese drinkers learned coffee as a Brazilian drink.
• Coffee Collective — The Copenhagen roastery started by three Danish competition baristas — a light-roasting, name-the-farm company whose founders hold a World Barista and a World Cup Tasters title, and whose coffee turns up in other people’s competition routines.
• Counter Culture Coffee — The Durham, North Carolina roaster that turned “we buy direct” from a slogan into a document — the one American third-wave founder that hired an outside auditor to check its own sourcing claims and then published the results.
• Doubleshot — The Prague roastery that grew out of a year spent working on a Panamanian coffee farm — four cafés, a coffee school and a bakery, over 90% of its green bought straight from the farmer, and the only Czech name on a Nordic Roaster winners sheet.
• DoubleShot Coffee Company — The one-man Tulsa roastery that refused to give up its name when Starbucks came for it in 2006 — a standoff filmed for a documentary — and whose founder now plants coffee on his own farm in Nicaragua.
• Doutor Coffee — The Tokyo roaster that invented Japan’s cheap, fast, stand-up coffee counter — founded in 1962, opened its first Harajuku shop in 1980, and now runs over a thousand cafés while leaving almost no trace in the specialty record.
• Dragonfly Coffee Roasters — The small Boulder, Colorado roastery that was Roast magazine’s 2019 Micro Roaster of the Year and the quietest of the four names on the first coffee ever to sell above $1,000 a pound.
• Equator Coffees — The Marin County roaster that started with two espresso carts in the early 1990s, began roasting in a garage in 1995, and ended up part-owning Finca Sophia — one of the highest Geisha farms in Panama.
• Espresso Vivace — The small Seattle coffee company founded in 1988 by David Schomer and Geneva Sullivan that roasts in a Northern Italian style, calls itself “the caramel coffee,” and is where latte art was popularised in the United States.
• Excelsa Coffee Company — The San Diego importer-roaster built entirely around Excelsa, the rare low-caffeine fourth coffee species — with its own farm in Nicaragua and buying relationships in the Philippines, South Sudan and Vietnam.
• Gardelli Specialty Coffees — The Italian micro-roastery in Forlì built around Rubens Gardelli, the 2017 World Coffee Roasting Champion — a pastel-pink counterargument to Italy’s dark-roast espresso tradition.
• Garrido Specialty Coffee Roasters — The Garrido family’s coffee business in Boquete, Panama — grower, roaster and hired dry mill, and the name behind Mokkita, the tiny-bean variety that won Best of Panama’s non-Geisha category.
• Has Bean — The Staffordshire roaster that turned a market stall into Britain’s best-known mail-order specialty coffee business, sent Dale Harris to the 2017 world barista title, and no longer exists under its own name — it merged with Ozone Coffee in 2018 and the two rebranded as Ozone at the start of 2024.
• Honey Coffee Roasters — The family roastery in Fukuoka that says it brought specialty coffee to Hakata in 2001 — and where a teenage Hidenori Izaki, later the first Asian World Barista Champion, started making coffee at sixteen.
• Illy — The family-controlled Trieste roaster, founded in 1933 by Francesco Illy, that sells one single blend of nine Arabica varieties into more than 140 countries — inventor of the illetta espresso machine and of pressurised coffee packaging, and the first Italian coffee company certified as a B Corporation.
• Intelligentsia Coffee — The Chicago roaster that opened in 1995, wrote down what “direct trade” was supposed to mean before anyone else did, sold a majority of itself to Peet’s in 2015 — and in 2022 became the first big American third-wave company whose workers unionised.
• Jacobs Douwe Egberts — The Dutch-German coffee giant built by merging a 1753 grocery in Joure with an 1895 shop in Bremen — later folded into JDE Peet’s, “the world’s leading pure-play coffee company”, and bought outright by Keurig Dr Pepper on 1 April 2026. Enormous in coffee, essentially absent from the specialty record.
• Julith Coffee — Dubai roastery that bought the 2025 Best of Panama record lot — the most expensive coffee ever sold at auction.
• Kaffa — The Oslo roastery and coffee-equipment retailer registered in 2005 and based on Enebakkveien at Ryen, a few doors from Solberg & Hansen, which finished third at the 2011 Nordic Roaster with a Panamanian Geisha in the filter round.
• Klatch Coffee — The Southern California family roaster that turned record Panamanian auction lots into the $75 cup of coffee — the retail end of the world-record price chain.
• La Cabra — The Aarhus roaster-and-bakery that took Nordic light roasting global — one roast profile per coffee, no separate espresso version, cafés from Copenhagen to Muscat, and the winning bid on Peru’s 2025 Cup of Excellence.
• MAME — The Zürich roastery and café group founded in 2016 by Emi Fukahori and Mathieu Theis — two competition baristas who built a business out of the championship stage, and the closest thing Switzerland has to a competition-coffee institution.
• Maruyama Coffee — The Karuizawa roastery that turned a failed mountain café into Japan’s most persistent Cup of Excellence buyer — five straight national barista titles from 2009, and the employer behind the first Asian world barista champion.
• Nestlé — The Swiss food conglomerate that invented instant coffee in 1938, invented the coffee capsule in the 1970s, and now owns or licenses Nescafé, Nespresso, Dolce Gusto, Starbucks packaged coffee and — until 2026 — Blue Bottle. The largest coffee buyer in the world, and almost invisible in the specialty record.
• Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. — The independent small-batch roaster from Olympia, Washington that won Roast magazine’s 2013 Micro Roaster of the Year and grew into a chain of cafés across the Puget Sound.
• Onyx Coffee Lab — The Northwest Arkansas roaster and café group that turned a small-town roastery into the most decorated competition team in American coffee — two US Barista Champions, two world runners-up, and a published record of what it pays for green coffee.
• Orsir Coffee — The Taiwanese roaster and green-coffee buyer that flies its own cuppers to origin and bids at Cup of Excellence auctions — top buyer of the 2023 Indonesia winner, co-buyer of half the record-setting 2024 Ethiopia lot, and a fixture on Costa Rica’s auction sheets from 2019 to 2022.
• Peet’s Coffee — The Berkeley bean shop that opened in 1966, taught Americans that coffee could be fresh, dark and worth queuing for, trained the three men who went on to found Starbucks — and is now a global brand inside Keurig Dr Pepper, with Stumptown and Intelligentsia underneath it.
• PERC Coffee Roasters — The Savannah, Georgia roaster that built a chain of Atlanta cafés on the back of a wholesale business, and won a Sprudge Design Award for its merchandise — a company known for how it looks rather than for what it has paid at auction.
• Philocoffea — The Chiba roastery and café group founded in November 2017 by 2016 World Brewers Cup champion Tetsu Kasuya — a company built on a brewing method rather than an auction bid, now 35 people with a Tokyo flagship.
• Proud Mary Coffee — The Melbourne roaster-and-café group founded by Nolan and Shari Hirte in 2009 that exported Australian café culture to Portland and Austin — and whose free producer-profile library, Proud Mary Academy, is one of the most-cited sources in this wiki.
• Savage Coffees — The Panama-grown, Florida-roasted coffee brand founded by Jamison Savage in 2016 — a producer who buys cherries from his neighbours, ferments them himself, and now roasts and sells the finished coffee in the United States.
• Saza Coffee — The family roastery in small-town Ibaraki, Japan that keeps buying the world’s most expensive coffee — lead buyer on both the first 1,000-a-pound lot in 2019 and the 10,013-a-kilo record in 2024 — and that also grows its own Geisha on a Colombian farm.
• Sensory Lab — The Melbourne coffee brand founded in 2009 as the department-store arm of the St. Ali group — sold its retail cafés to a catering company in 2021 and now sells beans and subscriptions roasted in Port Melbourne.
• Seven Seeds — The Melbourne roastery and café Mark Dundon and Bridget Amor opened in 2007 after he left St. Ali — the business most associated with pushing Melbourne from dark espresso blends toward light roasts and filter coffee, named after the Baba Budan legend.
• Sey Coffee — The Brooklyn micro-roastery that made very light, single-origin roasting the house style of a generation of American roasters — a roastery and coffee bar in one Bushwick room at 18 Grattan St.
• Simple Kaffa — The Taipei roastery and café group founded by Berg Wu, the only Taiwanese barista ever to win the World Barista Championship — and one of the East Asian buyers who turn up when a record Panama Geisha lot gets split.
• Solberg & Hansen — The Oslo coffee and tea roastery that traces itself to 1879, calls itself Norway’s oldest and largest specialty roaster, won the Nordic Roaster title in 2011 by a single vote, and turns up in Cup of Excellence auction records as a buyer as far back as 2001.
• Square Mile Coffee Roasters — The London roastery founded in 2008 by two people who had both won world coffee titles in Tokyo the year before — James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer. It has no café, roasts in a Walthamstow industrial unit, and sells mostly to other businesses.
• St. Ali — The South Melbourne warehouse café that Mark Dundon opened in 2005 and sold to Salvatore Malatesta in 2008 — the business most often named as the starting point of Melbourne’s third-wave coffee scene, now a roastery, café group and Southeast Asian export.
• Starbucks — The Seattle bean shop that became the largest coffee company on earth — roughly 41,000 stores in 87 countries — and which owns a private sourcing rulebook applied to about three percent of the world’s coffee, while publishing almost nothing about individual lots.
• Starbucks Reserve — Starbucks’ premium sub-brand — small-batch coffees sold through cathedral-sized roasteries and dedicated bars, and the largest premium coffee programme on earth that publishes no farm names, no scores and no auction results.
• Stumptown Coffee Roasters — The Portland roaster that opened in a former hair salon in 1999, taught American specialty coffee to fly to the farm and pay up, put cold brew in a nitro can — and then sold itself twice, first to private equity and then to Peet’s.
• Subko Coffee — The Mumbai roastery, bakery and chocolate maker that opened in a Bandra bungalow three days before India’s COVID lockdown, buys only Indian-grown Arabica, and has become the most design-visible name in Indian specialty coffee.
• The Barn — The Berlin roaster that brought Nordic light roasting to Germany — a 2010 café that started roasting in 2012, sells single origins only, and is one of Europe’s most-cited light-roast reference points.
• UCC Ueshima Coffee — The Kobe company that put coffee in a can in 1969 and built Japan’s everyday coffee habit around it — a grower, roaster and drinks manufacturer that owns estates in Hawaii and Jamaica, and the closest thing Japanese coffee has to a founding institution.
• Westrock Coffee — The Arkansas company that began in Rwanda in 2009 and now trades on the Nasdaq as WEST — a vertically integrated coffee, tea and extracts manufacturer that owns the green trader Falcon Coffees and makes other companies’ drinks rather than selling microlots under its own name.
• Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea — The Connecticut roaster and café group, roasting in Branford since the 1980s, that keeps turning up on the buyer line of competition lots — including the first coffee ever to sell for more than $1,000 a pound.