11 cafés in 3 citys. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
Bisetti has been roasting Peruvian coffee since 1958. Its team of cuppers, roasters and baristas selects and roasts beans daily, and the Barranco roastery doubles as a café where you can drink them fresh.
💡 Buy a bag of a single Peruvian origin to take home.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Diego Cisneros and Pamela Reymer opened Kafi Wasi in 2017 in a white sillar-stone mansion a few blocks from Arequipa's Plaza de Armas. They roast beans from Villa Rica and Cajamarca.
An Arequipa roastery café built around carefully chosen single-origin Peruvian beans. It roasts them itself and pairs them with a small kitchen.
A downtown Cusco café with a technical bent: quality control starts on its own precision-farmed estate. It also pairs coffee with drinks built from fermentations and distillates. It appears on both the world and South America lists of The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops.
Order: Pick your bean, roast and brew method
💡 You choose the bean, roast level and extraction, so ask the barista to walk you through them.
Founder Arturo Marín Salazar's family farms coffee in Villa Rica, so the brand handles everything from growing to roasting. The San Isidro café is a sleek, all-black room.
Order: Sparkling coffee · Filter coffee
Founded in 2015, Kaldis has grown into one of Lima's reference points for specialty coffee, with five shops, a coffee lab, its own roastery and a production centre.
A minimalist café in Barranco known for light-roasted beans and smooth espresso and filter brews. It ranks among the top ten on the South America list of The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops.
Order: Filter coffee · Espresso
Every year Origen closes its shops and takes the whole team to the farms for a week of working with growers and experimenting with fermentation. Three national barista champions have come from its staff, and it puts traceability front and centre on every coffee it serves.
💡 Ask where the day's coffee was grown; tracing each cup to its farm is the house habit.
A 100% Peruvian specialty chain that buys directly from coffee communities from Amazonas to Puno and pays farmers a fair, direct price. Each shop gets freshly roasted coffee delivered bag by bag, and the spaces give room to small local entrepreneurs.
Founded in 2011 by Central Café & Cacao to support growers through a fair, traceable supply chain. Puma calls itself the first Peruvian coffee brand certified organic, specialty and Fair Trade (SPP).
Order: Orange cold brew made with coffee cherry · V60 or Chemex
Raíz ("root") was started by people who wanted to know the coffee trees and the growers behind their cup. They roast carefully to bring out each bean's profile and calibrate the coffees for a balanced cup.