Specialty coffee in Berlin
27 cafés, 11 roasters, 7 neighbourhoods
Berlin is where Cupd started. Its specialty cafés are spread across the neighbourhoods, from Kreuzberg and Neukölln to Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Many Berlin roasters run their own cafés, so you often get your coffee straight from the people who roast it.
The cafés, by neighbourhood
For 20 of the 27 cafés we know whose coffee they pour. The neighbourhoods with the most cafés: Mitte and Kreuzberg.
More about these labels
- Verified by café
- The café entered this roaster in Cupd itself.
- In-house
- The coffee is the café’s own roast.
- Regular roaster
- The café pours this roaster’s coffee. Cupd researched this, mostly on the café’s or the roaster’s own website. Once a café has claimed its profile, it can confirm or remove the roaster.
- 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.
Mitte
9 cafés
Ben Rahim
Ben Rahim, who was born in Tunisia, started his coffee shop in 2015 and calls it third wave with an Arabian twist. Sugar is not served at all, and there is hand-brewed coffee too, served black.
Father Carpenter
Father Carpenter was founded in early 2015. It began as a pop-up, so Kresten and a group of friends could follow their passion for coffee, and in 2023 they opened their own roastery in Mitte. Their minimum for every cup: bright, sweet and clean.
Kolo Coffee
Kolo was founded in 2024 by Vladyslav Demonenko, Ukrainian Brewers Cup Champion in 2023, and opened its doors in 2025.
The Barn
Ralf founded The Barn in 2010. It all started at the tiny café on Auguststraße in the Gallery District. They call it The little Barn.
Kreuzberg
6 cafés
19grams
19grams started in 2002 in Friedrichshain, under the name Tres Cabezas. Back then, they say, specialty coffee was not yet a topic in Berlin. The new name comes from the 19 grams of coffee their Australian colleagues put in the portafilter for a double espresso.
Bonanza Coffee
Yumi Choi and Kiduk Reus opened the first Bonanza in Prenzlauer Berg in 2006. From the start they served light-roast specialty coffee.
Chapter One
Nora Šmahelová, German Barista Champion in 2002, and her business partner Björn Köpke met while working at DoubleEye in Schöneberg. They opened Chapter One together in late 2011.
Five Elephant
This is where Five Elephant began: the first café opened here in December 2010, with the coffee roasted in the back and the cakes baked from scratch. After a renovation there is a corner for hand brews again, and the cheesecake is still the original recipe.
Nano Kaffee
The Barn
More about The Barn above.
Friedrichshain
3 cafés
Blaue Bohne Rösterei
Blaue Bohne began in 2009 as a labour of love in a small side street in Friedrichshain. They don't just roast coffee for the neighbourhood, they are a neighbourhood café too.
CoffeinCentrale
Röststätte Berlin
Yvonne and Ivo, both trained in hospitality, rented a small shop between Koppenplatz and Torstraße in 2006. Before they roasted, the business was about selling espresso machines; in 2010/2011 they founded Röststätte Berlin.
Neukölln
3 cafés
Companion Coffee
In 2013 Chris Onton and Shawn Barber took over the corner café in Voo Store. Their café in the Weserkiez came later, with a tea room behind a curtain, built for tea and coffee tastings.
Isla Coffee
Peter Duran and Philipp Reichel built Isla as a no-waste café. From the start the idea was to waste as little food, water and packaging as possible.
The Barn
More about The Barn above.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
2 cafés
Perspresso
- April, Verified by café
- Bonanza Coffee, Verified by café
- Tanat, Verified by café
The Barn
More about The Barn above.
Prenzlauer Berg
2 cafés
No Fire No Glory
The Barn
More about The Barn above.
Wedding
2 cafés
The Barn
More about The Barn above.
The Barn Annex Café
The Annex sits right next to The Barn's roastery, in the red-brick building in the Brunnenviertel that was once AEG's headquarters. In the late afternoons it turns into a training centre for workshops with staff and guests.
Roasters poured in Berlin
11 roasters across the cafés above, by how many of them pour each one.
Roasters from Berlin
The Barn
The Barn roasts lightly and intentionally, to keep the full character of each lot, and says every lot scores 86 cupping points or more. The roastery is in the Brunnenviertel, next to the Annex café on Voltastraße.
Bonanza Coffee
Bonanza roasts in Kreuzberg, at Adalbertstraße 70, and says it roasts for clarity, sweetness and expression. The coffee ships fresh across Europe to home brewers, cafés and partners.
19grams
19grams roasts at its Alex location in Mitte, which is café, roastery and lab in one. The idea behind it is direct trade: they work with a close network of producers and put weight on long-term relationships with the farmers.
Blaue Bohne
Blaue Bohne roasts gently in small batches of up to 10 kg and wants each coffee to show its character and where it comes from. Whenever possible they buy directly at the source and build long-term relationships.
Father Carpenter
Five Elephant
Five Elephant has roasted in Berlin since 2010. The range runs from a house espresso for weekdays to single origins, from producers who, in their words, care about their land.
Kolo
Kolo is a micro roaster in Berlin that focuses on competition coffees. They buy in three tiers: single origins, rare microlots and competition-grade lots.
Röststätte Berlin
Röststätte roasts by hand at Ackerstraße 173, near Rosenthaler Platz, where the team around Ivo works on a Loring S35 Kestrel. For green coffee they work with partners in the producing countries.
From elsewhere
Questions
Which roasters can I find in Berlin’s cafés?
This page lists 11 roasters, among them The Barn, Bonanza Coffee, 19grams, April and Blaue Bohne. 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 Berlin 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
- 19grams: 19grams.coffee
- Ben Rahim: benrahim.de, benrahim.de
- Blaue Bohne Rösterei: blauebohne.com, blauebohne.com
- Bonanza Coffee: sprudge.com, bonanzacoffee.de
- Chapter One: sprudge.com, ceecee.cc
- Companion Coffee: ceecee.cc
- Father Carpenter: fathercarpenter.com, baristamagazine.com, fathercarpenter.com
- Five Elephant: fiveelephant.com, fiveelephant.com
- Isla Coffee: ceecee.cc, sprudge.com
- Kolo Coffee: baristamagazine.com, kolocoffee.eu
- Röststätte Berlin: roeststaette.com
- The Barn: thebarn.de, thebarn.de
- The Barn Annex Café: thebarn.de
- Blaue Bohne: blauebohne.com
- Kolo: kolocoffee.eu
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