8 cafés in 6 citys. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
Shanga's workshops sit in the grounds of the Arusha Coffee Lodge, on what is described as Tanzania's oldest coffee estate. The social enterprise employs people with disabilities to make glassware and jewellery from recycled materials.
Order: Estate coffee with lunch at River House
💡 River House lunch is by reservation only.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Founded in the 1920s as a coffee plantation, Gibb's Farm is now a lodge on the outer slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater. Coffee is still grown on the farm and turns up in the kitchen, from brownies to mousse.
Order: Farm-grown coffee · Coffee chocolate brownie
💡 Non-guests can visit for lunch or dinner only with a confirmed reservation.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A lodge set on a coffee estate overlooking the Rift Valley, where coffee has been grown since 1919. The farm grows Bourbon varieties at about 1,400 m and supplies the Zanzibar Coffee House.
Order: Estate-grown Rift Valley coffee
💡 You need your own transport or a taxi to get there.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Run by the Kilimanjaro coffee growers' cooperative, the oldest co-op in Tanzania (founded 1930), Union Café roasts beans on site. It also organises the popular Kahawa Shamba coffee plantation tours on Kilimanjaro's lower slopes.
Order: Espresso from cooperative-grown Kilimanjaro beans
💡 Ask here about the Kahawa Shamba farm tour.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A European-style café in central Arusha that is a favourite with travellers. Despite the name, it serves real coffee drinks rather than the Africafe instant brand, along with carrot cake and muffins.
Order: Cappuccino · Carrot cake
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
The café at Neema Crafts is staffed by deaf people, which adds a twist to ordering, and is known for fresh-ground coffee and cake. In the centre's workshops, deaf artisans make elephant-dung paper and beadwork, and you can take a tour.
Order: Fresh-ground coffee · Cake
💡 Take the workshop tour while you are there.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A lunch café in central Moshi, formerly called the Tanzanian Coffee Lounge, known for bagels, fruit and vegetable plates and smoothies alongside coffee.
Order: Latte · Bagel
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A café and small roastery inside an old Arab house in the heart of Stone Town, opened in 2005 by the Utengule Coffee Company. The beans come from their own farm in the Southern Highlands, and the rooftop has a 360-degree view over the old town.
Order: Espresso · Cappuccino · Coffee on the rooftop
💡 The café opens 8:30 to 18:00; the rooftop only 11:00 to 15:00.