Specialty coffee in Hamburg
13 cafés, 7 roasters, 6 neighbourhoods
Hamburg has traded coffee for a long time, and the Speicherstadt is where the green coffee used to be stored. Today many cafés in the city roast their own. Sternschanze, St. Pauli and the Altstadt are close enough to walk from one café to the next.
The cafés, by neighbourhood
For 8 of the 13 cafés we know whose coffee they pour. The neighbourhood with the most cafés is Altstadt & HafenCity.
More about these labels
- 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.
Altstadt & HafenCity
4 cafés
elbgold City
elbgold calls this spot by the Rathaus its Coffeelab. Since 2017 it has brought cuppings and unusual coffees to the city centre, from chocolatey Central American filter coffees to anaerobically fermented rarities.
Marshall Street Coffee
Tristan and Marie opened Marshall Street Coffee in February 2020. It is named after the first street Tristan grew up on in Sydney, and it was at a roaster in Australia that he found his love of coffee. They work with a small dairy farm and a Demeter farm.
Nord Coast Coffee Roastery
Nord Coast roasts fresh every day. For every kilo of roasted coffee they sell, they donate 50 cents to social projects in the producing countries.
Speicherstadt Kaffeerösterei
This open roastery has been at Kehrwieder 5 since 2006, on four floors of a listed warehouse from 1888. The coffee is drum-roasted fresh every day.
Eimsbüttel & Harvestehude
2 cafés
belum.coffeebar
Clemens Möll founded belum in 2021 as a lamp design brand, and the café shows off belum lamps. Since the beginning, belum has worked with Friedhats, a roaster from Amsterdam.
Black Hat Coffee
Black Hat Coffee was founded in 2018, and its beans are roasted fresh in Hamburg. They say every coffee scores at least 85 SCA points, from natural to fermented. At the counter you get espresso, flat white, pour-over and matcha, with vinyl on the turntable.
Hoheluft & Winterhude
2 cafés
elbgold Café Eppendorfer Baum
elbgold has run this small café bar near the Isemarkt since 2014. The espresso machine stands almost on the street, and the coffee is their own, fresh from the roaster.
Stockholm Coffee Roasters
David Vahabi founded Stockholm Coffee Roasters with Scandinavian coffee culture as the model. They say Scandinavian-style roasting is about preserving the beans' own flavours, and they want each batch to show where the coffee comes from.
St. Pauli
2 cafés
Blackline
Besides specialty coffee, Blackline makes its own cakes and sweets, serves breakfast and also does catering.
Public Coffee Roasters
Public Coffee Roasters opened their first café here on 14 April 2014, in what used to be an agency office. It's small and right by the Michel.
Sternschanze
2 cafés
goldenblack coffeestore
Arash Etemadi founded goldenblack and opened this store in July 2020, despite the pandemic. Alongside their own blend, the coffee rotates between national and international roasters.
TRADER
TRADER Gallery, a small unit in the Schanze, was the first TRADER: specialty coffee together with art and a selection of vintage design. Founder Vincent von Thien wanted to give emerging artists a fair platform.
St. Georg
1 café
Blanco Coffee
Roasters poured in Hamburg
7 roasters across the cafés above, by how many of them pour each one.
Roasters from Hamburg
elbgold
Annika Taschinski and Thomas Kliefoth founded elbgold in Hamburg in 2004, an idea that began on backpacking trips in the 1990s. They roast in the Schanzenhöfe, and when buying they rely on fair prices, prepayments and long-term partnerships.
Black Hat Coffee
Marshall Street Coffee
Marshall Street roasts its own coffee and wants to bring Australian coffee culture to Hamburg. For green coffee they rely on smaller farms.
Nord Coast Coffee Roastery
Nord Coast roasts its own coffee and adapts each roast to the coffee to bring out its particular profile. For green coffee, they say they work only with partners they fully trust.
Public Coffee Roasters
Co-founders Arameh and Argin Keshishian buy their beans mainly directly from farms in the producing countries. When the small roastery space at Entenwerder reached its limit, they found a site for a new roastery in Rahlstedt.
Speicherstadt Kaffeerösterei
The story of Speicherstadt Kaffeerösterei begins in Colombia in 1994. Today they focus on single origins and fine blends, stay in direct contact with the producers, and their green coffee comes straight through the Port of Hamburg.
From elsewhere
Questions
Which roasters can I find in Hamburg’s cafés?
This page lists 7 roasters, among them elbgold, Black Hat Coffee, Friedhats, Marshall Street Coffee and Nord Coast Coffee Roastery. 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 Hamburg 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
- belum.coffeebar: thecoffeevine.com, belum.design, belum.design
- Black Hat Coffee: blackhatcoffee.de, blackhatcoffee.de, blackhatcoffee.de
- Blackline: blacklinecoffee.de
- elbgold Café Eppendorfer Baum: elbgold.com
- elbgold City: elbgold.com
- goldenblack coffeestore: goldenblack.de
- Marshall Street Coffee: marshall-street.de
- Nord Coast Coffee Roastery: nordcoast-coffee.de, nordcoast-coffee.de
- Public Coffee Roasters: publiccoffeeroasters.com
- Speicherstadt Kaffeerösterei: speicherstadt-kaffee.de, speicherstadt-kaffee.de
- Stockholm Coffee Roasters: stockholmcoffeeroasters.com, stockholmcoffeeroasters.com
- TRADER: ignant.com
- elbgold: elbgold.com, elbgold.com, elbgold.com
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