4 cafés in 2 citys. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
Panama's self-described first gourmet coffee roasters run guided visits that cover the coffee tree, the history of coffee in Boquete, green processing and some roasting. The visit ends with a taste of their coffee.
Order: Café Ruiz Original
💡 Guided visits are by request through their website.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A small family farm that began as American owner Rich Lipner's retirement project on an abandoned coffee farm. The tour explains growing, moon-phase picking and processing, then tastes four of the farm's coffees, from geisha to a dark roast.
Order: Geisha in the four-coffee tasting
💡 Pickup is arranged in Boquete town.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A coffee shop in Plaza Los Establos, just south of Boquete's main square, in a valley famous for geisha coffee. It is a handy stop before or after one of the many local coffee farm tours.
Order: Boquete coffee by the cup
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Janson Farms dates to 1926, when Carl Axel Janson came from Sweden to Volcán; his descendants later founded Janson Coffee. Visitors come for guided tours and for coffee and something sweet in the coffee shop facing Volcán Barú.
Order: Geisha or pacamara from the farm
💡 Pair a guided tour with a stop at the coffee shop for the Barú views.