Prague coffee guide: past the grand cafés to the roasters

Doubleshot, The Miners, mamacoffee, Dos Mundos, Alf & Bet, Coffee Source, Kavárna Pražírna and Mazelab all roast their own coffee and pour it in their own cafés. Coffee Source has roasted in its own roastery since 2007, Doubleshot since 2010 and Mazelab since May 2023, and mamacoffee, founded in 2007, roasts, bakes and runs six cafés. Some roast in the room: Kavárna Pražírna keeps its roaster in the café, and The Miners and Alf & Bet each run a bar inside their roastery. Café Jen in Vršovice roasts nothing and pours Father’s alongside a different guest roaster each month. Most of their cafés are in Vinohrady, Karlín, Holešovice, Letná and the New Town.

Doubleshot, Karlín and Bubeneč

Doubleshot has roasted in Prague since 2010 and buys more than 90% of its green coffee directly from producers it knows personally and visits, often taking part in the harvest and the processing. The beans are frozen when they arrive, to stay fresh through the year, and roasted on a 60 kg IMF machine. The range is sorted into three flavour profiles, each with its own bag colour: sweet and creamy, fruity and elegant, juicy and exotic. Era, a honey-processed espresso from Heleanna Georgalis’s Sheka farm in south-western Ethiopia, is its bestseller, the one known from cafés, and the Farm series names the producer of each lot, from the Imbachi family in Huila, sold since 2011, to the Solis family’s Don Oscar farm in Costa Rica. Doubleshot’s own cafés are Můj šálek kávy in Karlín and Místo in Bubeneč, and its LOKA espresso bars sit in the Holešovice market and at Masaryčka. It also runs a coffee school.

The Miners, from Vinohrady to the DOCK roastery

The Miners opened its first café in Vinohrady in March 2019, as a cultural hub for people working on their own projects. It now has fourteen places to drink coffee in Prague, the roastery and a bakery among them, two cafés in Brno and others from Barcelona and Madrid to Kraków, Vienna, Amsterdam, Dresden and Brussels. Every bean passes through The Miners Roastery in the DOCK building in Libeň, which is a production space, café and showroom in one. The roaster stands in the room with the tables, new coffees are tested on its bar before they reach the other cafés, and the bar runs a deep-blue La Marzocco KB90, the only one in the network. Baristas finish a one-week training programme with an exam, and The Miners sources its coffee directly from farmers.

mamacoffee, six cafés from Hradčany to Podolí

mamacoffee was founded in 2007 by Daniel Kolský and Marta Kolská with friends, and today it is a roastery, a craft bakery and six Prague cafés. It works through direct partnerships with farmers, among them the Chavarría brothers at El Progreso in Nicaragua, its partners since 2018, and a women’s project with the COASSAN cooperative in Jinotega. The bakery works with local suppliers and without semi-finished products, colourings or preservatives, and it holds a kosher certificate from the rabbinate of the Prague Jewish Community alongside vegan, gluten-free and lactose-free baking. The cafés are by Karlovo náměstí, near Náměstí Míru, on Náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad, in Nusle and in Podolí. The sixth, Café Nezisk in Hradčany, hands its space each month to a non-profit organisation and gives it that month’s profit.

Dos Mundos, Vinohrady and Letná

Dos Mundos, “two worlds”, belongs to Adéla and Lukáš Zugar. Lukáš, the head roaster, discovered filter coffee on a trip to China more than fifteen years ago, and the roastery grew from the couple’s shared passion for gastronomy. The coffee is roasted in Pankrác on Giesen W30 and W6 machines, from named farmers and their best harvests: the Yellow Catuaí from Cleverson Daniel da Silva’s Sítio Vargem Alegre in Brazil is in its eighth season, bought as a whole lot. Dos Mundos Vinohrady moved to larger rooms in 2025 and pairs espresso and filter with brunch and natural wine. Dos Mundos Café Letná has swings in its windows and an interior by the studio arch+ that won an award in the Interiér roku competition.

Alf & Bet and the EMA espresso bars, Florenc to Holešovice

Alf & Bet roasts coffee and bakes bread, and the same crew runs the four EMA espresso bars, which serve both. The roastery is in the former Municipal Brewery in Holešovice, where the newest EMA looks straight into it, and the bakery is in an old workshop in Libeň by Palmovka, with a second EMA attached. The first EMA opened in 2013 by Florenc, in the building of the Institute of Czech Literature, and takes its name from the Czech primer line “Ema mele maso”. Another is in Palác Karlín. Most Alf & Bet coffees are roasted twice, for filter and for espresso, and every bar except the one in Libeň also grinds coffee from other micro-roasteries. EMA stopped using paper cups in April 2024.

Coffee Source, Vinohrady

Coffee Source began in 2003 by importing coffee from a small Italian roastery along with La Marzocco machines, and it has roasted in its own roastery since 2007. It roasts on a Coffee-Tech R45 drum roaster built to its specification, cups and scores every batch, and sorts the roasted beans twice on its own laser sorter. Part of its green coffee arrives by sailing ship, and some of the range is certified organic, including the Suke Quto lots from Tesfaye Bekele in Guji, which it has bought for several years. Its café in Vinohrady opened in 2019 and serves coffee drinks, cakes and beans to take home.

Kavárna Pražírna, Vinohrady

Kavárna Pražírna is a café with its own roasting machine in the room. It roasts a short list of coffees, among them a carbonic maceration lot from Nicaragua, and the staff help guests brew them at home. Everything from the bakery is made in house, from sourdough bread, baked on weekdays and reservable, to loupáky, cinnamon rolls with pistachios and pastel de nata. Breakfast is served in the morning and toasties and sandwiches all day, with homemade lemonades, draught beer from small breweries and wine, and tables are booked by phone only.

Mazelab Coffee, Prague 6, Libeň and Vinohrady

Mazelab Coffee belongs to Jackie and Thu, life partners who met over a cup of coffee. Mazelab’s roasting began in May 2023, after six years in specialty coffee, in a roastery in Prague 6 that keeps public opening hours. Mazelab chooses lots for clarity, sweetness and complexity rather than for fashionable names, and roasts each one to where its character shows best, without a fixed light or dark style. Its own cafés are Pleiku in Libeň, with brunch and a coffee gallery, and May Cafe in Vinohrady, with hand brews and small brunches.

Café Jen, Vršovice

Café Jen opened in 2013 to bring coffee from Has Bean, the UK roaster now called Ozone, to the Czech Republic, along with breakfast and a café for its neighbours. Its house coffee is roasted by Father’s, and every month a guest roaster from elsewhere in Europe joins it on the grinder. Espresso comes from a La Marzocco Linea PB with a Mahlkönig E80, and there are usually two coffees on batch brew. Cakes and sandwiches come from Jen’s own bakery around the corner, there is brunch at weekends, and it takes walk-ins only. In 2022 the same team opened Vila 63, a café with a garden in a First Republic villa on the edge of Vinohrady.

What you need to know about Prague specialty coffee

Which Prague coffee shops roast their own coffee? Doubleshot, The Miners, mamacoffee, Dos Mundos, Alf & Bet, Coffee Source, Kavárna Pražírna and Mazelab all roast their own and pour it in their cafés.

Where can you watch the roasting? The Miners Roastery in Libeň has the roaster in the same room as the tables, the EMA bar in the former brewery in Holešovice looks into the Alf & Bet roastery, and Kavárna Pražírna roasts in the café.

Which café pours guest roasters? Café Jen serves a house coffee from Father’s and a different guest roaster every month, and the EMA bars, apart from the one in Libeň, grind coffee from other micro-roasteries alongside Alf & Bet’s own.

Where is the brunch? Dos Mundos Vinohrady serves brunch with natural wine, Café Jen has a weekend brunch, Mazelab’s Pleiku and May Cafe serve brunch, and Kavárna Pražírna serves breakfast in the morning.

Can you book a table? Café Jen takes walk-ins only. Kavárna Pražírna takes reservations by phone.

Is there kosher or vegan baking? mamacoffee’s bakery is certified kosher by the rabbinate of the Prague Jewish Community and bakes vegan, gluten-free and lactose-free cakes.