Specialty coffee cafés in Phnom Penh

Robusta from the northeastern highlands

Most of the home crop is robusta: about 90 percent of Cambodian coffee farmers grow it, and the rest grow arabica.³ Well-managed farms can yield up to four tonnes per hectare, double the average of about two.³ The 2026 heatwaves hit hard; Piseth Duk, president of the Cambodian Coffee Association and a Mondulkiri grower, lost about 30 percent of his newly planted trees.³

Quality has been recognized abroad. In 2024, Mondulkiri robusta processed by the company Kofi was graded Fine Robusta by the Coffee Quality Institute, the first Cambodian coffee to reach that grade.⁴ Much of the local harvest leaves the country: Cambodia exported 601 tonnes in 2025, to markets including Estonia, China, Japan and Russia.¹

Phnom Penh roasters and Cambodian beans

The traditional cup is a different drink. Street-stall beans are roasted in vegetable or pork fat until black, brewed thick and strong, and served over ice, sometimes with condensed milk.⁵ Specialty roasters in the capital work at the other end of the scale.

Three Corner Coffee Roaster, established in 2010, describes itself as the first international-standard roaster in Cambodia.⁶ Josh Jones, a co-founder who took over the business in 2017, buys robusta from Bunong farmers in Mondulkiri; the company began in Ratanakiri but moved when supply there ran short, and its Phnom Penh café sells beans through a jar-refill system.⁷ The address is House #11, Street 41BT, in Boeng Tumpun & Mean Chey.

Feel Good Coffee, an employee-owned social business, roasts organic fair-trade beans from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.⁸ Its Feel Good Café at 136 Street 136, a few blocks from the riverside, opens daily 07:30–18:00.

Where the specialty cafés are

Toul Tom Poung, around the Russian Market, ties with Teuk Laak and Toul Kork for the most specialty cafés, with Daun Penh next. Near the market, Chadajima Coffee Roasters is on Street 450, Roast. at 35 Street 456 and Founan Café Coffee Roaster at 117 Street 95. Lot 369, at 32A Street 468, serves pour-over and cold brew next to a full espresso menu.⁹

In Daun Penh, Kuro Specialty Coffee is at 19 Samdech Mongkol Iem Street (228) and Uroast Bean on Street 242. Toul Kork has d.e.s. coffee roasters at 103 Street 273, Eagle Specialty Coffee at 10b Street 315 and Six Bean Coffee Roasters and Pho on Street 337. In Teuk Laak, MAO's Coffee & Roastery is on Street 122, Coffee Labkh on Street 358 and Gatna Roastery Cambodia on Street 2.

Across the Tonlé Sap, Leopard Coffee Roasters is on Keo Chenda Street in Chroy Changvar. On Koh Pich (Diamond Island), a café called simply Roasters opens daily 07:00–22:00 and has Wi-Fi.