3fe

3fe stands for Third Floor Espresso, the room in Colin Harmon's third-floor apartment where he trained for the 2009 World Barista Championship. He finished fourth and opened his first shop on 5 December 2009 in the lobby of the Twisted Pepper nightclub on Abbey Street. Today 3fe runs cafés in Dublin alongside a roastery and a wholesale business, and roasts its blends in Dublin. Harmon has written a book about growing a coffee business.

Where this text comes from

Each sentence about 3fe rests on one of these pages, read on November 11, 2026. The café list is from the Cupd app as of November 11, 2026.

• irishtimes.com/business/aib-start-up-academy/the-story-of-my-start-up-3fe-coffee-1.2920305
• irishtimes.com/food/2026/05/05/irelands-coffee-pioneers-when-i-first-told-people-i-was-a-barista-they-thought-i-worked-in-the-four-courts
• 3fe.com/pages/our-story