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Cafés / North America

Cafés to visit in Nicaragua

3 cafés in 3 citys. Places change: check opening hours before you go.

Local tradition

Café de las Sonrisas

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Local tradition · Calle Real Xalteva, next to Hotel Real Merced, Granada

A Granada café that supports deaf, blind and mute Nicaraguans who work there, through the sale of coffee, food and handmade hammocks.

Order: Nicaraguan coffee · Breakfast

💡 Closed Mondays; Sunday mornings only.

Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.

Selva Negra

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Local tradition · since 1975 · Km 140, Matagalpa–Jinotega highway

An eco-lodge on Finca La Hammonia, a shade-grown coffee farm set up by German immigrants that has produced and exported coffee since 1890. Eddy Kühl and Mausi Hayn bought it in 1975 and built the lodge; it keeps old relics such as a railway wheel once used to haul coffee to the port.

Order: Fresh-roasted Matagalpa coffee in a French press

💡 Combine a meal or a night at the lodge with a coffee farm walk.

Specialty

Delafinca Specialty Coffee

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Specialty · since 2012 · Costado Sur del Parque, Managua

Founded in 2012, Delafinca grows its beans in the mountains of San Juan de Río Coco, Madriz, and controls everything from seed to cup. It ranked 12th on The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list for North and Central America.

Order: Madriz single origin on filter

Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.

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