Coffee Rain is a roastery and café in Borek Fałęcki, in the south of Kraków, where Guatemalan coffee and people are “the main characters” of the everyday work. Its coffee is meant to be “jak spokojny dzień w deszczu”, like a calm, rainy day, and its motto is “Im prościej, tym lepiej”, the simpler, the better.

All of its coffee comes from Guatemala. Coffee Rain set out to build a bridge between Guatemala and Poland and works directly with family farms there, among them La Soledad in Acatenango, which has belonged to the Pérez family for five generations and keeps half of its 90 hectares as natural forest, and San Gerardo in the Amatitlán region. Every lot scores at least 80 SCA points, and the roasting happens every Monday in small batches so that the coffee is always fresh.

The shelf splits into filter coffees from single farms and espressos, and it also carries the official coffee of the local club KS Borek, chosen with the club for its supporters to brew at home, from zalewajka (hot water poured straight over the grounds) to the moka pot. Coffee Rain supplies companies on request.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Coffee Rain