# 15 Best Specialty Coffee Shops in Barcelona > The 15 best specialty coffee shops in Barcelona, from origin-focused roasters in Gràcia and the Born to coffee-first bars pouring single-origin espresso and filter. Where to drink and buy great beans, ranked by an independent consensus, no paid placement. - **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/best-specialty-coffee - **City:** Barcelona, Spain - **Published:** 2026-07-01 - **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder - **Reading time:** 8 min ## Introduction This is the list for people who take their coffee seriously, the ones who want to know where the beans come from and how they were roasted, not just a caffeine hit before the metro. Barcelona's default coffee culture is the traditional Spanish one: a quick, strong cortado thrown back standing at the bar. Good, but not the point here. Over the last decade a small group of roasters and coffee-first cafés quietly built a proper specialty scene, sourcing single-origin beans, often travelling to origin to choose them, roasting in the city (or, in one case, in Prague), and brewing them with real care as espresso and filter. Most of these places also sell the beans to take home and run subscriptions, so they're as much roasters as cafés. We've split the pure coffee purists from the all-day brunch rooms here, this is the former; the brunch spots have their own guide. What's below is where to go when the coffee itself is the reason. ## A guide to Specialty Coffee Shops in Barcelona ### What does 'specialty coffee' actually mean? Specialty coffee refers to high-grade beans, traceable to a specific farm or region and scored highly for quality, roasted and brewed to bring out their individual character rather than blended into anonymity. It's the 'third wave' of coffee: treating coffee more like wine, with origin, varietal and roast all mattering. In practice, at a specialty shop you'll find single-origin beans, lighter roasts than the dark Spanish norm, and baristas who can tell you where a coffee is from and how it was processed. It's a deliberate step up from the traditional cortado-at-the-bar culture, and Barcelona now has a small but genuinely excellent specialty scene. ### Do these places roast their own beans? Many do, and it's a large part of what sets them apart. Several of the shops on this list, SlowMov, Three Marks, Roast Club, Nomad and Hidden among them, roast their own coffee, often from single-origin beans they've selected themselves, sometimes travelling to origin to do it. That means the coffee in your cup was roasted by the same people serving it, usually within days. Nearly all of them sell those beans by the bag, whole or ground, and run subscriptions so you can brew the same coffee at home. So a specialty café here often doubles as a roastery and a shop, not just a place to sit. ### Coffee-first bar or brunch café, what's the difference? It matters for what you're after. Some of these are coffee-first spots, Nomad and Hidden, for instance, are built around the cup: espresso, filter, beans to take home, and not much in the way of food. Others, like Satan's Coffee Corner and Roast Club, pair serious coffee with a proper kitchen or bakery, so you can settle in for a plate too. If you want to geek out on a pour-over and buy beans, head to the coffee-first bars; if you want great coffee with a full breakfast, the ones with kitchens, or our brunch guide, are the better call. We've noted which is which below. > "Barcelona's coffee culture used to mean a quick cortado at the bar; a wave of small roasters quietly rebuilt it around the bean." ## How we built this list This guide covers coffee-first specialty roasters and cafés. All-day brunch rooms are covered separately, so the focus here stays on the coffee. We favour shops that roast their own single-origin beans or pour from named roasters, and that can tell you where a coffee comes from, over generic café blends. We weight our own visits alongside the consensus of locals and the coffee community, and note which spots are coffee-first versus food-forward. No shop pays for placement. Guidavera has no affiliate or sponsorship deals with any venue on this list. ## The 15 best Coffee Shops, compared | # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [Cafés El Magnífico](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/cafes-el-magnifico) | El Born / La Ribera | €€ | — | — | | 2 | [Nomad Coffee](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/nomad-coffee) | Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera | €€ | — | — | | 3 | [Right Side Coffee Bar](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/right-side-coffee-bar) | Gothic Quarter | €€ | — | — | | 4 | [SlowMov](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/slowmov) | la Vila de Gràcia | €€ | — | — | | 5 | [Syra Coffee](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/syra-coffee) | Gràcia | € | — | — | | 6 | [Three Marks Coffee](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/three-marks-coffee) | el Fort Pienc | €€ | — | — | | 7 | [Dalston Coffee](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/dalston-coffee) | El Raval | € | — | — | | 8 | [Morrow Coffee](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/morrow-coffee) | La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample | €€ | — | — | | 9 | [Roast Club Café](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/roast-club-cafe) | l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample | €€ | — | Il Porcone (porchetta brioche) | | 10 | [Sensorial Coffee Roasters](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/sensorial-coffee-roasters) | Poblenou | € | — | — | | 11 | [Hidden Coffee Roasters](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/hidden-coffee-roasters) | Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera | €€ | Repsol Solete | — | | 12 | [La Cherry Coffee Co.](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/la-cherry-coffee-co) | La Dreta de l'Eixample | € | — | — | | 13 | [Austral Coffee Bar](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/austral-coffee-bar) | La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample | € | — | — | | 14 | [Skye Coffee Co](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/skye-coffee-co) | el Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou | €€ | — | — | | 15 | [The Miners Coffee](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/the-miners-coffee) | el Poblenou | € | — | — | ## The 15 best Coffee Shops in Barcelona ### 1. Cafés El Magnífico *Barcelona's heritage roaster-café, roasting single-origin coffee on Carrer de l'Argenteria since 1989.* - **Neighbourhood:** El Born / La Ribera - **Address:** Carrer de l'Argenteria, 64, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://cafeselmagnifico.com/en/ - **Booking:** https://cafeselmagnifico.com/en/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/cafes-el-magnifico Cafés El Magnífico is Barcelona's heritage specialty-coffee roaster-café, and its story runs deep in El Born. Salvador Sans's grandfather began roasting coffee in the neighbourhood back in 1919; his parents created the El Magnífico brand in 1962, and in 1989 Salvador opened the shop on Carrer de l'Argenteria where they still roast today. A pivotal 1987 meeting with fine-coffee importer Philippe Jobin pushed the family toward traceable, single-estate beans long before "specialty coffee" was a phrase. Today they focus almost exclusively on searching out, selecting, roasting and pouring the world's best single-origin coffees — beans bought green and roasted in Barcelona on Loring machines. You'll find espresso, serious pour-over filter, cold infusion and their signature iced shakerato, plus shelves of beans and gear to take home. In 2018 they even acquired the historic La Portorriqueña roaster, founded in 1906. ### 2. Nomad Coffee *A coffee-first specialty bar built entirely around the cup* - **Neighbourhood:** Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera - **Address:** Passatge Sert, 12, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://nomadcoffee.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/nomad-coffee Nomad is coffee at its most single-minded. Tucked into Passatge de Sert in Sant Pere, it's built around the cup and nothing else: espresso and filter from single-origin beans, with those same beans bagged for retail so you can brew them at home. This is a coffee-first spot, not a brunch café, so come for the coffee itself rather than a plate, the whole operation is geared to getting the most out of the bean. It runs weekdays with walk-ins welcome, about four minutes from Urquinaona. For serious drinkers who want the purest expression of specialty coffee in the city, it's the benchmark. ### 3. Right Side Coffee Bar *The Gothic Quarter bar of a three-time Spanish Roasting Champion, pouring single origins roasted on restored vintage Probats.* - **Neighbourhood:** Gothic Quarter - **Address:** Carrer de l'Arc de Sant Ramon del Call, 11, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.rightsidecoffee.com - **Booking:** https://www.rightsidecoffee.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/right-side-coffee-bar Right Side Coffee is the Barcelona bar of a roaster that started small and stubborn. Joaquín Parra launched it in 2012 with about €2,000 and a secondhand roaster in a garage, having grown up around the family green-coffee import business. He's since become a three-time Spanish Roasting Champion — SCA national titles in 2013 and 2017 among them — and competed at the World Coffee Roasting Championship; his partner Lara San Miguel joined in 2014. The team imports 100% of its coffee directly and roasts single origins in Castelldefels, just south of the city, on lovingly restored vintage Probat machines (a 1993 L12 and a 1959 UG22). The Gothic Quarter bar, opened in 2023, is where you drink the results: a bright, compact, coffee-first room with big windows, pouring espresso and filter alongside artisan pastries. Beans and subscriptions are for sale too. ### 4. SlowMov *A Gràcia roaster that travels to origin, since 2015* - **Neighbourhood:** la Vila de Gràcia - **Address:** Carrer de Neptú, 36, Gràcia, 08006 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://slowmov.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/slowmov SlowMov is a roaster and café on Carrer de Neptú in Gràcia, and its ethos is right there in the name. François and Carmen started it in 2015, naming it after the Slow Movement, and they travel to origin to choose their coffees, roast them in Barcelona, and pour them here. Beans go home with you, whole or ground, for espresso or filter. It's a calm, considered space that treats coffee as something to slow down for rather than rush, and the origin-first sourcing means the cup genuinely reflects the care behind it. One of the loveliest coffee spots in the city, and a Gràcia fixture. ### 5. Syra Coffee *The original Gràcia hatch where architect-turned-roaster Yassir Raïs set out to democratise specialty coffee in 2015.* - **Neighbourhood:** Gràcia - **Address:** Carrer de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats, 8, Gràcia, 08012 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://syra.coffee/en - **Booking:** https://syra.coffee/en - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/syra-coffee Syra Coffee started as a tiny takeaway hatch in Gràcia, opened on 20 October 2015 by founder Yassir Raïs — a trained architect who wanted to bring proper specialty coffee to his neighbourhood at a time when the to-go, quality-first model barely existed in Barcelona. That first small premises grew into a roaster with cafés across several Spanish cities, but the idea has stayed the same: democratise good coffee. Syra roasts weekly in Barcelona and pours 100% single-origin Arabica, buying directly from small farms, families and cooperatives — origins have included Ethiopia, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil and Uganda. Expect espresso and filter done carefully, with home-brew methods like V60, Aeropress and cold brew championed on their beans. This Gràcia address on Carrer de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats is a coffee-first spot, not a sit-down kitchen — come for a properly made cup and beans to take home. ### 6. Three Marks Coffee *A Fort Pienc roaster with its own single-origin beans and a coffee club* - **Neighbourhood:** el Fort Pienc - **Address:** Carrer d'Ausiàs Marc, 151, Eixample, 08013 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.threemarkscoffee.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/three-marks-coffee Three Marks roasts its own single-origin beans in el Fort Pienc, in the Eixample, and serves them as espresso and filter across the counter. What marks it out is how deep it lets you go: whole bean and ground coffee to take home, and a monthly coffee club subscription for people who want a rotating supply of what they're roasting. There's a terrace, takeaway and breakfast, and it opens every day from 8am. It's a proper neighbourhood roastery-café, less about the scene, more about consistently excellent coffee and building a relationship with the people who drink it. ### 7. Dalston Coffee *A tiny El Raval café pouring single-origin coffee roasted at its own La Garriga roastery.* - **Neighbourhood:** El Raval - **Address:** Carrer de les Ramelleres, 16, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://dalstoncoffee.com - **Booking:** https://dalstoncoffee.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/dalston-coffee Dalston Coffee started in 2017 in El Raval, the work of former chef Borja Roselló, who made the jump from professional kitchens to specialty coffee while living in London — the café takes its name from Dalston, the East London neighbourhood where that shift happened. It's a tiny, coffee-first spot, and Roselló roasts his own beans at the brand's own roastery in La Garriga, just outside Barcelona, on Mondays and Wednesdays in small batches. The rotating line-up leans single-origin: recent coffees have come from Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi, Brazil and Papua New Guinea, roasted for espresso, Italian moka and filter, all scoring above 80 points on the SCA scale. You can drink it here or take the beans home — the shop sells whole beans, capsules and a monthly subscription. The brand talks about quality, flavour, sustainability and traceability, with compostable packaging and hand-harvested green coffee. ### 8. Morrow Coffee *A Gran Via micro-roastery near Plaça d'Espanya where you can watch the beans roast while you order an espresso, pour-over, or cold brew.* - **Neighbourhood:** La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample - **Address:** Av. Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes 403 Barcelona, Spain, Eixample, 08015 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://morrowcoffee.com/ - **Booking:** https://morrowcoffee.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/morrow-coffee Morrow Coffee is the specialty roaster-café that Andrey Rachnov and Daria Repina opened in 2017 on Gran Via, a couple of blocks from Plaça d'Espanya. The pair roast on-site in a micro-roastery, so the smell of fresh coffee greets you at the door and you can often watch the process while you order. The menu runs from a fruity, syrupy espresso to pour-overs on the V60 or Chemex and a cold brew, with beans that rotate through African and Central American origins — recent lots include Ethiopia Banko Chelbesa, Rwanda Gakenke, and Costa Rica Diego Robelo. It's a coffee-first spot rather than a full kitchen, but there are artisanal pastries (the banana bread is a favourite), avocado toasts, and brunch-friendly bites. The space is minimalist and light-filled, and knowledgeable staff will happily steer you toward beans to take home. ### 9. Roast Club Café *An Esquerra roaster where the food is worth staying for* - **Neighbourhood:** l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de València, 190, Loc 1-2, Eixample, 08011 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://roastclub.coffee/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/roast-club-cafe Roast Club roasts its own beans in l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample and, unusually for a coffee-first spot, backs the coffee with food genuinely worth ordering. The short menu splits into Salado, Dulce and Extra, with the porchetta brioche, Il Porcone, as the house best seller and a Roast Club Toast with avocado and roasted pears. You can take a bag of beans home or set up a subscription. It's walk-ins only, open from 8am on weekdays, with a terrace and takeaway. The best of both worlds: a serious roaster that also happens to make a mean brioche. **Order:** - Il Porcone (porchetta brioche) - Roast Club Toast (avocado, roasted pears) ### 10. Sensorial Coffee Roasters *A Poblenou house-roaster café pouring farm-to-cup coffee from its own six origins, as batch, V60 and espresso.* - **Neighbourhood:** Poblenou - **Address:** Carrer de Llull, 199, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://sensorial.coffee - **Booking:** https://sensorial.coffee - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/sensorial-coffee-roasters Sensorial Coffee Roasters sits on a bright Poblenou corner where Carrer de Llull meets Marià Aguiló, all glass frontage and a long counter lined with pastries. It's the Barcelona home of a farm-to-cup coffee project that grew out of a Colombian grower's finca and now spans six origins — Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ethiopia and El Salvador — with beans imported direct from origin and roasted locally under Sensorial's own label. That own-roasting backbone is the point: this is a house-roaster café, not a generic multi-roaster room. On the bar you'll find espresso, flat whites, cortados and cold brew alongside filter done as batch brew or V60, plus matcha and a dirty chai for the crowd that strays off the coffee path. It opened in Poblenou in early 2024, and it's coffee-first — good croissants and toast, but you come for the cup. ### 11. Hidden Coffee Roasters *A coffee-first roaster in El Born, espresso to filter to matcha* - **Neighbourhood:** Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera - **Address:** Carrer dels Canvis Vells, 10, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Solete - **Website:** https://hiddencoffeeroasters.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/hidden-coffee-roasters Hidden Coffee Roasters is a coffee-first shop in El Born, on Carrer dels Canvis Vells near the Barceloneta edge of Ciutat Vella. It keeps the focus tight, espresso, filter and drip, plus matcha, with whole beans and coffee packs to take home. The Born shop is one of several Hidden locations around the city, and the brand roasts under its own name, so you're drinking their own coffee wherever you find them. It's open daily, walk-in and set up for takeaway. A reliable, unpretentious spot for a proper cup in the old city, without a brunch menu to distract from it. ### 12. La Cherry Coffee Co. *A Sagrada Família specialty-coffee company pouring rotating single origins — the kind of small, coffee-first spot regulars grab a flat white to go.* - **Neighbourhood:** La Dreta de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Lepant, 330, Eixample, 08025 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://www.lacherrycoffee.com/ - **Booking:** https://www.lacherrycoffee.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/la-cherry-coffee-co La Cherry Coffee Co. is a specialty-coffee company and small café tucked into La Dreta de l'Eixample, a short walk from the Sagrada Família on Carrer de Lepant. This is a coffee-first address: the space is compact, filled with equipment, and geared to a properly made cup rather than a long sit-down, so plenty of regulars grab a flat white or filter to go. What sets La Cherry apart is the rotating line-up of carefully sourced single origins — recent releases have spanned Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico and Nicaragua — alongside their own blends, so the cup in your hand changes with the season. You can take it further at home: they sell whole beans, accessories and even run a monthly coffee subscription. Their coffee also turns up around town, poured at cafés like Ombu in Poblenou. Reviewers single out the friendly, knowledgeable team, and it earns a spot in European Coffee Trip's Barcelona guide. ### 13. Austral Coffee Bar *A family-run Eixample coffee bar where Claudio and Marga pour specialty beans from Barcelona micro-roasters alongside homemade cheese bread and Argentine-Brazilian snacks.* - **Neighbourhood:** La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Viladomat, 140, Eixample, 08015 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://australcoffeebar.com - **Booking:** https://australcoffeebar.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/austral-coffee-bar Austral Coffee Bar is the work of Claudio and Marga, who came back to the land of their grandparents carrying the flavours of their South American travels and folded them into a small, family-run coffee bar on Carrer de Viladomat, in La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample. It's a coffee-first place rather than a roaster: the beans come from micro-roasters around Barcelona and Catalonia, pulled as espresso or brewed by hand through V60, Aeropress and Chemex, with filter, cold brew and nitro rounding out the menu. Alongside the cup there's a small, personal food offer — homemade pastries and a much-loved cheese bread, plus Argentine and Brazilian touches sitting next to the local staples. The room is cosy and informal with a handful of outdoor seats and free wifi, the kind of neighbourhood spot the owners run themselves. ### 14. Skye Coffee Co *A Poblenou specialty café with pastries* - **Neighbourhood:** el Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou - **Address:** Carrer d'Àvila, 32, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/skye-coffee-co Skye Coffee Co pours specialty coffee in el Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou, in the Sant Martí district, with pastries alongside and brunch turning up now and then. The hours are tight, mornings only, Monday to Friday, closing around lunchtime, so it's an early-in-the-day spot rather than an all-dayer. Walk in; there's no booking. It's a well-regarded fixture of Poblenou's coffee scene, the kind of place to grab a great flat white and a pastry on a weekday morning. Check the hours before you make the trip, since it winds down by midday. ### 15. The Miners Coffee *A Poblenou roaster-café with its own bakery counter* - **Neighbourhood:** el Poblenou - **Address:** Rbla. del Poblenou, 107, Bajo 1, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://www.theminers.eu/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/the-miners-coffee The Miners Coffee sits on Rambla del Poblenou and pairs serious coffee with its own bakery. It's part of a group that roasts its own beans, in Prague, and the baristas brew from those; the company lists this branch as The Miners Poblenou Bakery, so there's a bakery counter alongside the coffee. It opens early and runs through to the evening, with takeaway part of the deal, and it's walk-in any day with no booking. The wider hours and the bakery make it a more flexible, drop-in kind of specialty spot than the tightly focused coffee-first bars, good whether you want a quick flat white or something to eat with it. ## Honourable mentions - **[La Galena](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/la-galena)** (el Poble-sec) — A Poble Sec café on Plaça del Sortidor pouring locally roasted coffee alongside a homemade brunch kitchen, with a terrace on the square. - **[Manso's Café](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/mansos-cafe)** (Sant Antoni) — Specialty coffee and a midday brunch menu on Carrer de Manso in Sant Antoni, close to Poble Sec metro. ## The Specialty Coffee Shops scene in Barcelona Barcelona's specialty coffee is concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods: Gràcia (SlowMov), the old city around Sant Pere, El Born and the Gothic Quarter (Nomad, Hidden, Satan's), and the Sant Martí district in Poblenou (Skye), with the Eixample's Fort Pienc holding Three Marks. Many of these are roaster-cafés that select and roast their own single-origin beans and sell them by the bag with subscriptions, so they double as shops. Most keep daytime hours and welcome walk-ins; the coffee-first bars lean more toward espresso, filter and takeaway than sit-down food. ## Glossary - **Specialty coffee** — High-grade, traceable coffee scored highly for quality and roasted to bring out the beans' individual character. The 'third wave' approach that treats coffee more like wine, by origin and varietal. - **Single-origin** — Coffee sourced from one specific farm, region or country rather than blended from many. Lets the distinct flavour of a place come through, and the focus of most of the roasters here. - **Filter / pour-over** — Coffee brewed by passing hot water through ground beans in a filter, producing a cleaner, lighter cup than espresso. A staple brewing method at specialty shops alongside espresso. - **Roaster-café** — A café that roasts its own beans on site or nearby and sells them retail, rather than buying in from elsewhere. Common among Barcelona's specialty spots. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the best specialty coffee shop in Barcelona? For pure coffee, Nomad in Sant Pere is the benchmark, built entirely around single-origin espresso and filter. For an origin-focused roaster-café, SlowMov in Gràcia (roasting its own since 2015) is a favourite. And Satan's Coffee Corner in the Gothic Quarter is the original specialty spot that helped start the scene, with brunch alongside. ### Which Barcelona coffee shops roast their own beans? Several on this list roast in-house: SlowMov (Gràcia), Three Marks (Fort Pienc), Roast Club (Esquerra), Nomad (Sant Pere) and Hidden (El Born) all roast their own coffee, mostly single-origin, and sell it by the bag. Many also run subscriptions so you can brew the same beans at home. ### Where can I buy specialty coffee beans in Barcelona? Nearly all of these shops sell beans retail, whole or ground. Nomad, SlowMov, Three Marks, Roast Club and Hidden all bag their own roasts to take home, and Three Marks and Roast Club (among others) offer subscriptions. So any of the roaster-cafés here doubles as a place to stock up. ### Is specialty coffee different from a normal Spanish coffee? Yes. The traditional Barcelona coffee is a strong, dark-roast cortado or café con leche thrown back at the bar. Specialty coffee uses higher-grade, traceable single-origin beans, usually lighter roasts, brewed to highlight their individual character as espresso or filter. It's a slower, more deliberate approach, and a distinct scene from the classic bar cortado. ## About the author **Justin Mota** — Guidavera founder Justin Mota is the founder of Guidavera. He has lived in Spain for over 10 years and runs a native AI agency alongside building this platform. Food has always been the way Justin connects with friends, and Guidavera started as the list he kept sending to everyone visiting Barcelona. He built it for himself and his friends first, and now hopes it can transform the way people discover great food experiences everywhere. More: https://guidavera.com/about --- This guide is the canonical machine-readable version of https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/best-specialty-coffee. Every claim is verifiable against the linked restaurant profiles. Source: Guidavera (https://guidavera.com).