Specialty coffee in Barcelona
16 cafés, 7 roasters, 6 neighbourhoods
In Barcelona the classic order is a cortado (tallat in Catalan) or a café con leche. Many bars in Spain still use a blend with torrefacto, beans roasted with added sugar. Alongside it, a growing specialty scene roasts lighter and tells you where its coffee comes from. Many of these cafés are in Ciutat Vella, an easy walk between the Born, the Raval and the Gòtic.
The cafés, by neighbourhood
For 8 of the 16 cafés we know whose coffee they pour. The neighbourhoods with the most cafés: Eixample, Poblenou and El Born.
More about these labels
- In-house
- The coffee is the café’s own roast.
- Roaster not listed yet
- Cupd does not know yet whose coffee the café pours. Cafés can add their roaster for free, and guests can report it in the app.
Eixample
4 cafés
Blackbird Coffee Corner
D·Origen Coffee Roasters Barcelona
D·Origen is a roaster based in Altea, founded in 2012, with its own farm in Panama. For the Barcelona café in Casa Calvet, the counters, lamps and stools were 3D printed from a blend of recycled PLA and coffee grounds.
Sagra Specialty Coffee
Three Marks Coffee
The name comes from the three founders, all called Marc or Marco. Their coffee turns up in cafés across Europe, and here you can also try it as an affogato with hazelnut ice cream from DelaCrem.
Poblenou
4 cafés
Nomad Frutas Selectas
Frutas Selectas used to be Nomad's roastery and is now its café with the most room. The name is a nod to the idea that coffee, like select fruit, should be tasted for its nuances. Expect coffee in every format, plus pastries, sandwiches and a lunch menu.
Ombú BCN
Pablo and Chantal, both from Argentina, started Ombú in Poblenou in 2021, in the middle of the pandemic. The name is a tree: in Argentina the ombú stands for shelter and coming together. Today they roast their own specialty coffee and run two cafés in Barcelona.
Sensorial Coffee Roasters
Sensorial started in Barcelona in 2022. They say they grow, import and roast their own coffee: they oversee their own farms in six countries, import directly with no intermediaries and roast in Poblenou.
Skye Coffee Co
El Born
3 cafés
Cafés El Magnífico
Salvador Sans Velasco's grandfather opened a grocery shop in 1919, and in 1962 his parents founded the Cafés El Magnífico brand on top of it. The family has roasted in the Argentería shop ever since it opened. Claudia Sans Witty, the third generation, is in charge of quality control.
Hidden Coffee Roasters
Mateo González and Carlos Moral met in 2015 at a workshop on specialty coffee and matcha, and opened their first café in 2016. The El Born shop followed at the end of 2020, and in 2023 they brought in a 30 kg Giesen roaster.
Nomad Coffee Bar
This was Nomad's first shop in Barcelona, back when it was called Nomad Coffee Lab. The idea is simple: specialty coffee for every day at a minimalist counter, with no distractions.
El Raval
2 cafés
Dalston Coffee Roasters
Borja Roselló made the jump from professional kitchens to specialty coffee in Dalston, London, and the brand's look borrows that neighbourhood's brick buildings and coloured awnings. Dalston opened its first café in 2017 and also supplies coffee to cafés in Spain and Europe.
Lodetto
Gràcia
2 cafés
Candela Canela
Oriol Inglés opened Candela Canela in 2018, at 22, as a bakery for fresh, handmade cinnamon rolls. The coffee comes from Barcelona's Harmony Roasters, and now and then they host Guest Barista, where a barista is invited to brew competition coffees.
SlowMov
François and Carmen started SlowMov in Barcelona in 2015, after living in France, England and Poland. Selling coffee is their main business, the coffees change with the season, and you can ask the barista for advice on brewing their coffee at home.
Barri Gòtic
1 café
Right Side Coffee Bar
Joaquín Parra founded Right Side Coffee in 2012 in the garage of his house and won a national SCA championship in 2013 and again in 2017. In 2023 the roaster opened its own café in Barcelona, Right Side Coffee Bar. Today they import all of their coffee directly.
Roasters poured in Barcelona
7 roasters across the cafés above, by how many of them pour each one.
Roasters from Barcelona
Nomad
Nomad started in 2011 as a coffee cart at London markets and settled in Barcelona in 2014. They roast in-house to their own quality standards, travel to origin for their beans and work side by side with importers and producers.
Cafés El Magnífico
Dalston Coffee Roasters
Dalston roasts at its own roastery in La Garriga, gently and in batches. Each lot comes from one specific farm, with details on its origin, variety and processing.
Ombu Bcn
Ombú's founders travel to origin regularly to build relationships with producers. For their roasting they name sustainability, fair trade and support for women in coffee as their aims.
SlowMov
SlowMov visits producers at origin, in countries such as Brazil, Ethiopia and Mexico, picks the coffees and roasts them in Barcelona. They try to keep long-term relationships with their suppliers.
Three Marks Coffee
Three Marks roasts at its own site, which also houses their academy. They work closely with trusted producers and build long-term relationships based on care, quality and sustainability.
From elsewhere
Questions
Which roasters can I find in Barcelona’s cafés?
This page lists 7 roasters, among them Nomad, Cafés El Magnífico, Dalston Coffee Roasters, Ombu Bcn and Right Side Coffee. Next to each roaster it says whether the coffee is the café’s own roast and where Cupd got the information. The labels are explained above the list.
How up to date is this list?
It is a copy of the Cupd app as of November 11, 2026. Cafés and guests keep the app current, so open Barcelona in Cupd to see what has changed since.
A café is missing. How does it get on here?
In the app, search for it and tap “Missing a café? Tell us”. If it is your café, claim it for free on the page for cafés and enter your roaster. It shows up here with the next update.
Where the café texts come from, read on November 11, 2026
- Cafés El Magnífico: cafeselmagnifico.com
- Candela Canela: barcelona-metropolitan.com, sprudge.com
- D·Origen Coffee Roasters Barcelona: interempresas.net, baristamagazine.com
- Dalston Coffee Roasters: dalstoncoffee.com
- Hidden Coffee Roasters: hiddencoffeeroasters.com, hiddencoffeeroasters.com
- Nomad Coffee Bar: nomadcoffee.es, sprudge.com, nomadcoffee.es, nomadcoffee.es
- Nomad Frutas Selectas: nomadcoffee.es, ccmagazine.es, nomadcoffee.es
- Ombú BCN: ombubcncafe.com, ombubcncafe.com
- Right Side Coffee Bar: rightsidecoffee.com
- Sensorial Coffee Roasters: sensorial.coffee, sensorial.coffee
- SlowMov: slowmov.com, sprudge.com
- Three Marks Coffee: sprudge.com
- Nomad: nomadcoffee.es
- Ombu Bcn: ombubcncafe.com
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