Best Specialty Coffee in Palma

Mistral Coffee roasts its own beans in Mallorca on a 12kg Probatone roaster, sourcing 100% traceable, seasonally produced Arabica to SCA standards, and pours it across three of its own Palma cafés: Coffee House, Coffee Banc and Ponent. Coffee House, at Plaça de Weyler, keeps the longest hours, Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 5pm and Sunday 9am to 2pm, while Ponent runs daily 8am to 3pm and Coffee Banc closes on Sundays. The same Mistral beans turn up again elsewhere on this list, in Surry Hills' house cold brew and behind the counter at Rapha Palma's cycling clubhouse.

Rosevelvet is the eatery side of a sourdough bakery business that has run in Palma since 2014, built around masa madre bread and pastries, and it also supplies restaurants, hotels and cafeterias on a wholesale basis. The Eatery on Carrer de Font i Monteros is modern, cozy and stylish, with a terrace, and keeps shorter hours on weekends than during the week. The Eatery runs its own Instagram account separate from the Bakery side, a sign of how the two halves of the business operate side by side.

Arabay's Palma flagship sits right on Plaça Major, stylish and cozy with an easy-going pace suited to a solo coffee break. Alongside espresso, the menu runs to filter methods like V60, Chemex and siphon, plus small llonguet sandwiches if you want something to eat alongside the coffee. The company operates multiple flagship stores and coffee corners across the Balearic Islands and Madrid, per its own site, so this is one outpost of a wider operation rather than a single-shop concept.

Cafè Riutort combines a coffee counter with an artisan bakery on Carrer del Carme, serving breakfast, coffee and house-made pastries and breads for dine-in or takeaway. It's been described as "the most urban café in Palma," with a relaxed, unpretentious feel that draws locals and visitors alike. The bakery side means it also works as a food store, so you can pick up baked goods to take away rather than just sit down for coffee. It has limited wheelchair accessibility and is closed Mondays and Sundays, so plan a weekday visit.

Surry Hills brings Sydney-style brunch and specialty coffee to Carrer del Carme, named for the Sydney neighbourhood that inspired it. The coffee comes from Mistral, including a house cold brew called "Meet Me at Surry," alongside all-day brunch plates like Smashed Avo Toast and Bacon & Egg on brioche. Its sister venue, Hotto Coffee Lab, is a coffee school and micro-roastery a short walk away at Plaça de Raimundo Clar. Weekends get busy: reviewers recommend arriving before 11am for a table, or sticking to takeaway coffee and pastries on quieter midweek mornings.

Mama Carmen's Coffee & Kitchen sits in the heart of Santa Catalina, near Plaça del Progrés and a short walk from the Mercat de Santa Catalina. It's a fully vegetarian kitchen built around specialty coffee, breakfast and lunch, with dishes like hazelnut-cream pancakes and croissants, and it shares its name with a small Palma group that also runs a 100%-vegan Coffee & Bakery outpost on Carrer de Rossiñol. It's open daily 8:30am to 3pm and doesn't take reservations, so it's a walk-in-only stop.

Hotto Coffee Lab was opened by Felipe Vessena and Tatiana Weiman, the founders of Surry Hills nearby on Carrer del Carme. Where Surry Hills leans Australian, Hotto is built around Japan: it roasts single-origin coffee on-site and from guest roasters, pours ceremonial matcha sourced from Uji, and serves a brunch menu of shokupan-bread sandos like the Tamago Sando and dishes like Shibuya Toast. The room is minimalist with white brick walls and a communal table, plus a bar counter facing the plaza. It also runs small-group barista workshops on espresso, filter methods and latte art, and doesn't take table reservations.

Batx runs two cafés in Palma: the original on Carrer de l'Arxiduc Lluís Salvador near the Mercat de l'Olivar, and a second in Santa Catalina on Carrer de Despuig. It's a project of Cómodo&Co, a Palma coworking and office-space operator, built around coffee from Amsterdam roaster Lot61, served alongside toasts, jaffles, bagels and healthy breakfast dishes in a spacious, verdant room. It's closed Sundays, with shorter Saturday hours than the working week.

The Barn Coffee Roasters is a Berlin-founded specialty coffee network with cafés across several countries, and its La Rambla location is listed among its official Specialty Coffee Cafés. All the coffee is roasted centrally in Berlin, so this reads more as a coffee-and-cakes stop than a full restaurant: espresso drinks, filter coffee like a V60, tea and pastries, close to the Old Town. Listed hours run 10:00-13:00 and 13:30-16:30 seven days a week, a narrower window than most cafés on this list, so it's worth checking before you plan around it.

Acco is a genuine hole-in-the-wall on Carrer de l'Argenteria, wedged between two busy streets in Palma's Old Town, with room for roughly two people standing and two more at a small bar. It was founded by Nahuel Accorinti in late 2024, after several years managing a nearby coffee shop, and pours coffee roasted in Barcelona alongside homemade pastries. It runs mostly as a grab-and-go counter under the motto "More espresso less depresso," though there's a small spot to stay if you want one. It's closed Sundays.

Nano Coffee Lab is tucked on a quiet side street off the busier Avinguda Jaume III, run by two coffee entrepreneurs focused on coffee quality. Alongside its espresso-based drinks, it stocks a rotating, largely vegan pastry selection: lemon cake, banana bread, croissants and focaccia, sourced from local bakeries. It's a small-footprint shop with very limited seating that can fill up quickly at peak hours, so it works best as a quick stop rather than a place to camp out. It's open Monday to Saturday and closed Sundays.

Bacán is a minimalist, small-format café in Palma's Centro district, brewing beans from Madrid roaster Hola Coffee across espresso, filter, cold brew and nitro. The brunch menu is concise but considered, with Eggs Benedict, Turkish eggs and avocado-egg toasts, plus vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. It's dog-friendly, kid-friendly and wheelchair accessible, and the small patio out back gives it a leafy, close-quarters feel. Seating is limited, especially on weekends, so it can mean a short wait at peak brunch hours. It's open daily roughly 8:30am to 2:30pm.

Menut Cafè sits just off Avinguda Jaume III, serving espresso drinks made with beans from Barcelona roaster Nomad alongside cold brew, juices, pastries and brunch dishes like toasted sourdough with smoked salmon, avocado and poached egg. Coffee writers have singled out its cortado as "sweet and smooth," and the café frames itself as a place for lingering rather than rushing, with both indoor and outdoor seating. It stays open into the evening Tuesday to Saturday, with shorter hours Monday and closed Sunday, a solid pick if you want a neighbourhood coffee stop away from the Old Town crowds.

Rapha Palma pairs a full cycling apparel shop with a café bar just north of the cathedral, home base for the island's Rapha Cycling Club chapter (RCCMLL), with weekly group rides and live race screenings alongside the coffee. The coffee is sourced from Mistral, the Palma roastery that also supplies Surry Hills, and the food side runs to flat whites, croissants, vegan banana bread and donuts. Per Estilo Palma, Rapha Palma is credited as the venue that started the pairing of cycling and coffee culture in the city. Bike racks, a pump and wifi make it a natural stop for riders passing through the Old Town.

Federal Café Palma sits in the Llevant neighbourhood as part of the Federal Café group, which also runs locations in Barcelona and Madrid. It's open every day from 9am to 9pm, with a menu that spans breakfast bowls and toast through to lunch dishes, sandwiches and an extensive coffee and drinks list, including a ceremonial iced matcha latte alongside the standard espresso-based drinks. Menus are available in Spanish, English and Catalan on the website. It's a good option if you want longer hours than a morning-only specialty coffee bar.