Specialty coffee cafés in Munich

Fausto, Munich's largest independent roaster

Klaus Wildmoser taught himself to roast while studying food technology in Weihenstephan, after a Konditorei owner promised to buy his coffee if it tasted like Illy. Today Fausto roasts 200 kilograms an hour, about 300 tonnes a year, in the Kraemer'sche Kunstmühle in Giesing, a building heated with wood pellets and powered by the mill stream.¹

About 60 percent of the green coffee is bought directly from farmers or cooperatives. Fausto does without the Fairtrade seal, because many small farmers cannot afford the license, and it runs barista and latte-art courses on Sundays.¹ The shop café on Birkenleiten opens at 11:00 on weekdays and 10:00 on Saturdays.

Light roasts and brew bars

Man Versus Machine buys part of its green coffee through Nordic Approach, and The Barn, founded in Berlin by Ralf Rüller, runs two cafés in Munich, on Müllerstraße and on Hochbrückenstraße.²

Vits on Rumfordstraße sells blends, single origins and what it calls third wave specialties, and teaches home brewing in four seminar modules that can be booked singly or together.³ NINE FINE by the Hirschgarten roasts its own beans and sells the coffee it serves in bags at the bar and online.⁴

In Neuhausen, SALLIS developed its own roast profiles for each blend after starting out with coffee roasted by partners.⁵ Pacandé on Implerstraße buys microlots, coffee from a single farm, and sells its rarest nano-lots as special editions.⁶

Market stalls and kiosks

Standl 20, a cabin on the Elisabethmarkt in Schwabing, pours JB Kaffee as flat white, filter or espresso tonic, all without bitterness.⁷ At the Viktualienmarkt, the Kaffeerösterei buys mostly from small sustainable farms that cannot pay for expensive certification.⁷

Kyso on Tegernseer Landstraße in Obergiesing is run by Maksim and Patrick, two Giesing locals with a portafilter machine, a house espresso from JB Kaffee and a vegan affogato.⁷ Alrighty in the Werksviertel roasts beside its café and lets visitors look into the roastery.⁷

Where the roasters are

In Neuhausen, SALLIS is on Donnersbergerstraße and NINE FINE's bar on Hirschgartenallee, by the park. In the old town there are sweet spot kaffee on Heiliggeiststraße, Kanso Coffee Lab on Theatinerstraße and Rösterei am Platzl on Orlandostraße.

Haidhausen has VogelMaier on Einsteinstraße and M8 on Mühldorfstraße, with Alrighty further east on Speicherstraße. In Sendling, The Annamites roasts on Fallstraße and serves Vietnamese drinks such as egg coffee and coconut latte; Calima on Nestroystraße is nearby.⁸ In the Maxvorstadt, humpback whale on Türkenstraße opens at 08:30 from Tuesday to Saturday.