10 cafés in 6 citys. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
A family coffee estate with decades of history that welcomes visitors to walk its coffee fields, learn how coffee is produced and taste the results. Its tours can be combined with Poás Volcano or the La Paz waterfalls.
Order: Estate tasting after the tour
💡 Book tours by phone or online; there are combined Poás Volcano and waterfall options.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Opened in November 1991 as Costa Rica's first coffee tour to cover the whole process, it walks you through a coffee plantation and roasting plant near Heredia. Professional actors present the history of the 'golden bean' with plenty of humour, and the tour ends with a tasting.
Order: Tasting of fresh-brewed Costa Rican coffees
💡 Book ahead; transport from San José airport can be arranged with the tour.
A gourmet Costa Rican coffee counter in the north-west corner of San José's Central Market. Stop in for a cup or beans while browsing the market stalls.
Order: Costa Rican coffee by the cup · Whole beans to take home
A cooperative founded by 96 small coffee growers in Dota, a valley where coffee arrived in 1888. Today it roasts its own brands, runs a café and coffee school, and offers a farm-to-cup tour of its organic farm and mill with a tasting.
Order: Microlot tasting (honey, natural and washed)
💡 Book the coffee tour or a roasting or cupping workshop in advance.
A Heredia specialty café and shop dedicated to micro-producers, selling coffees with clear traceability and a story. It also runs a coffee club and develops brewing tools for home enthusiasts.
Order: Micro-producer filter coffee
A micro-roastery in Moravia with a mostly female team, buying directly from micro-producers and micro-mills across Costa Rica. Alongside the coffee it serves artisanal pastry and traditional Costa Rican food, and it runs friendly coffee classes.
Order: Micro-lot filter coffee · Costa Rican breakfast
A Costa Rican roastery and café in Nicoya focused on precise roasting and approachable, modern coffee service. It is a good stop for Nicoya Peninsula beach trips.
Order: Espresso · Cold coffee for the Guanacaste heat
A Rohrmoser café where all the specialty coffee is regenerative-certified and traceable from seed to cup. The food is made from fresh local ingredients.
Order: Regenerative-certified pour-over · Brunch plate
Costa Rica's coffee library and tasting centre, with more than 25 coffees covering the country's eight growing regions, roasted in-house. Watch the staff bag your coffee, then eat in the garden seating in Barrio Escalante.
Order: Flight of coffees from different Costa Rican regions
A specialty coffee shop and bookstore set in a charming courtyard in central San José.
Order: Pour-over of Costa Rican coffee