Featured Café
Café Central
Vienna, Austria
A Viennese coffeehouse that opened in 1876 beneath the former stock-exchange hall of the Palais Ferstel.
Selected by Sunjae Sharmah
A small, evolving set of places, people and tools from the world of coffee, chosen because they belong in the story.
Editor’s Selection is an editorial choice by Sunjae Sharmah. Names and marks belong to their owners; no affiliation with, or endorsement by, the brand is implied.
A Viennese coffeehouse that opened in 1876 beneath the former stock-exchange hall of the Palais Ferstel.
A chain of coffeehouses run by workers’ co-operatives, remembered as a public room for conversation as much as a place to drink coffee.
A Delhi-based coffee roaster and café company that began roasting in 2013.
Not a single brand or estate, but a distinctive way of conditioning coffee in the monsoon air of India’s Malabar coast.
A Florentine espresso-machine maker whose own history begins in 1927 and takes its name from the lion symbol of Florence.
A German-made hand grinder, built around a steel burr and an oak knob.
A forested zone of south-western Ethiopia long associated with the origins of Arabica coffee, and now a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
A range of hills in Karnataka associated with the tradition that coffee first reached India as seven beans carried from Mocha.
A hill district in Karnataka where coffee grows beneath shade trees, with a history of local planting, colonial estates, decline and recovery.
A coffee origin in the Eastern Ghats built around tribal farmers, and known well beyond India.
A hill district in Kerala whose coffee is overwhelmingly Robusta, and a window onto the species behind much of India’s output.
Coffee as a daily ritual: a strong decoction, hot milk, and a tumbler and davara.