Specialty coffee in Lisbon
18 cafés, 8 roasters, 9 neighbourhoods
In Lisbon you order a bica at the counter, which is what the city calls an espresso: strong, usually from dark-roasted beans, often with some robusta. Alongside it, a specialty scene with lighter roasts and filter coffee has grown in recent years. Mind the hills: the walk to the next café is often steeper than the map suggests.
The cafés, by neighbourhood
For 7 of the 18 cafés we know whose coffee they pour. The neighbourhoods with the most cafés: São Bento & Santos and Cais do Sodré & Bica.
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.
São Bento & Santos
5 cafés
Buna Specialty
Buna has been open since 2020. Co-founder Olga worked as a barista in Tel Aviv before she moved to Lisbon. She is also a designer, and here she gets to combine both: coffee and interior design.
Hello Kristof
Charlie and Malaylack are behind Hello, Kristof, and Malaylack, a chef, shaped the food menu. This café is where they roast their own coffee, and you can watch it happen.
Neighbourhood Café
The Mill
W You Coffee
Behind the counter you'll find Rebeca Yang, who won a national SCA championship in Portugal in 2025. The espresso is a Brazil from Lisbon roaster Olisipo, and lately they have also worked with April Coffee Roasters from Copenhagen.
Cais do Sodré & Bica
3 cafés
Baobá Café
The coffee here grows on Baobá's own farm in São Sebastião da Grama, in São Paulo state. It all began there in 2005 with Arnaldo Vieira, the son of Portuguese parents. The green beans come to Lisbon, where Baobá roasts them.
Comoba
The building was a stable, then a pharmacy, before owner Francisco Amaral turned it into a café and event space. Design studio XXXI kept the century-old arches and the original flagstone floors. The kitchen serves organic dishes made with seasonal produce from Portuguese farmers and fishermen.
Fábrica Coffee
Baixa & Chiado
2 cafés
Sense of Coffee
The Folks Chiado
The Folks started in 2022 with a single café in Chiado: one counter, one machine. Today there are six across Lisbon, with brunch alongside the coffee.
Príncipe Real
2 cafés
Comēte Coffee
Copenhagen Coffee Lab
Copenhagen Coffee Lab is a Danish-owned chain with its own roastery and bakery. The beans are roasted in Sydhavn in Copenhagen, and two of the four founders are former master bakers.
Other neighbourhoods
6 cafés
How About Coffee
Tiago and Maíra Silva, a Brazilian couple, moved to Lisbon in 2018 with the idea of opening a café, and opened this one the following year. Tiago looks after the coffee, which is roasted on site.
Dramático
Owner Ricardo Galésio runs this café in a pink building on a steep hill. When Sprudge visited in 2024 he was pouring La Cabra from Copenhagen, and there is a no-laptop policy.
SoLo Brewing Coffee Roasters
Brazilian Adroaldo Henrique Carneiro is behind SOLO Brewing, which roasts its own coffee. Besides coffee, there's brunch, lunch dishes and cocktails.
Olisipo Coffee
Olisipo started with a trip: Antony Watson travelled to Ethiopia on two wheels, and back in London he met co-founder Sofia Gonçalves. In 2018 the two set up Olisipo in Ajuda.
TACT
TACT is in a former laundry that had been closed for about 12 years. Viktoria Parfinskaia and Kirill Ivanov, a couple from St Petersburg, kept the fifty-year-old tile floor and marble walls. The coffee comes from Dak in the Netherlands and Bonanza in Berlin.
Lapso
Marcus Anjos is the one behind the counter, and he deliberately pours light roasts. In 2024 his roaster of choice was Prolog Coffee from Copenhagen. The art on the walls changes often, and the signs on the front windows are hand-drawn.
Roasters poured in Lisbon
8 roasters across the cafés above, by how many of them pour each one.
Roasters from Lisbon
Baobá
Baobá has two cafés in Lisbon, in Bica and in Marvila, and roasts the coffee from its own farm in Brazil here in the city. The farm covers 562 hectares, and only about 30 percent of it is planted with coffee.
Hello Kristof
Hello, Kristof roasts its own coffee in small batches at its São Bento café, with beans from regions like Guatemala, Colombia, Ethiopia and Costa Rica. It runs three cafés in Lisbon.
Olisipo Coffee Roasters
Olisipo roasts in small batches every week on its own premises. Green coffee comes through trusted partners, and the stated values are transparency, traceability and trade justice for producers.
SoLo Brewing Coffee Roasters
SOLO Brewing roasts specialty coffee in Lisbon, with beans from all over the world, such as Colombia, Kenya or Mexico.
The Folks
Since 2024 The Folks has roasted every bag itself in Lisbon, in small batches every week. It chooses coffees lot by lot and buys them through exporters and importers it works with season after season.
From elsewhere
Questions
Which roasters can I find in Lisbon’s cafés?
This page lists 8 roasters, among them Baobá, Copenhagen Coffee Lab, Friedhats, Hello Kristof and Manhattan. 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 Lisbon 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
- Baobá Café: timeout.pt, baobacafe.pt
- Buna Specialty: bunaportugal.com, bunaportugal.com
- Comoba: thespaces.com
- Copenhagen Coffee Lab: copenhagencoffeelab.com
- Dramático: sprudge.com
- Hello Kristof: hellokristof.com, baristamagazine.com, hellokristof.com
- How About Coffee: timeout.pt, timeout.pt
- Lapso: sprudge.com
- Olisipo Coffee: olisipo.coffee, timeout.pt
- SoLo Brewing Coffee Roasters: timeout.pt, solobrewing.pt
- TACT: timeout.pt, sprudge.com
- The Folks Chiado: thefolks.pt, thefolks.pt
- W You Coffee: timeout.pt, timeout.pt, olisipo.coffee
- Baobá: baobacafe.pt, baobacafe.pt, baobacafe.com.br
- Olisipo Coffee Roasters: olisipo.coffee
- The Folks: thefolks.pt
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