Leonhard and Stefanie Wild founded Wildkaffee in 2010 as the first coffee roastery in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Both came from professional sport: Stefanie was an alpine skier and Leonhard a professional ice hockey goalkeeper in Cologne, Hamburg and Munich, and they ran a sandwich franchise and two pizzerias before turning to coffee. Leonhard’s great-grandfather sold roasted coffee from Hamburg at his grocery by Partenkirchen station in 1892. The name joins the family name to the wild coffee of Ethiopia.

The roastery started in a backyard in Partenkirchen with a small café attached, moved to Farchant and now works in Grainau, in the Zugspitze region, on an IMF RM60 and a Giesen W6. Leonhard Wild and Josef Staltmayr are the roasting masters, and each green coffee gets its own profile from test roasts. Wildkaffee buys directly from farmers and cooperatives it visits regularly, and in the Buenos Aires region of El Salvador it bought a farm for its Coffee School Project, where it trains local farmers; the coffee from that farm is sold as El Salvador - Coffee School Project. The Brewers Cup Series offers small bags of geishas from Panama, Ethiopia, Colombia and Brazil.

Wildkaffee Bahnhofstraße opened in 2014 in a bank building in the centre of Garmisch. Run since 2018 by former roastery employee Benjamin Fleischhacker, it serves the coffee at a brew bar on AeroPress, Karlsbader Kanne and portafilter, with homemade cakes, a daily lunch and vegan options. The newer café at the Kurpark, in the pedestrian zone, has standing tables, indoor and outdoor seating, cakes and croissants, and sells the full range to take home.

In Vienna, Wildkaffee has had a showroom since 2023 and, since April 2026, the Wildkaffee Wien coffee shop in Margareten. It is run by Martin Wölfl, Austrian Brewers Cup champion and, in 2024, world champion, and pours the whole range alongside coffees used in world championships. Wildkaffee also roasts for BALTHASAR Kaffee Bar in Leopoldstadt, including its No. 11 espresso blend.

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