3 cafés in 1 city. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
Opened in 2001 as the first place in Yerevan to combine books and coffee. One room is decorated with Armenian manuscript motifs, and you can ask for the 'small muddy Eastern coffee'.
Order: Armenian coffee · breakfast
💡 Browse the English-language shelf of Armenian books while you wait.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Armenia's largest café chain was founded in 2003 around the idea of pairing jazzve (cezve) coffee with jazz. Its three 'Armenian coffee' blends are named after characters from poet Hovhannes Tumanyan.
Order: Armenian coffee in a jazzve
💡 Order Armenian coffee rather than espresso; it is what they were built on.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
An Armenian specialty roaster with cafés in Yerevan, Dilijan and Los Angeles that sources and roasts in-house. It was ranked #61 in the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops Europe list.
Order: filter · espresso
💡 There is also a branch on Mashtots Ave near the Matenadaran.