Daniel Kolský founded mamacoffee in 2007 with his wife, Marta Kolská, and friends. Today it is a roastery, a craft bakery, a wholesale supplier and six cafés in Prague, built on direct partnerships with farmers. The roasters follow each coffee from the farm and the way it was harvested and processed to its journey across the ocean, and several lots carry the “mamacoffee direct” label, among them coffee from the Chavarría brothers’ El Progreso farm in Nicaragua, where mamacoffee has bought since 2018, and a women’s project with the COASSAN cooperative in Jinotega.

The range runs from light roasts for V60, Chemex and AeroPress to fuller roasts for espresso and the moka pot, and every coffee is sold whole or ground for a chosen brewing method.

The bakery works without semi-finished products, colourings or preservatives and with local suppliers. Its counters hold pastry snails, pecan biscuits, chocolate brownies, banana bread and carrot cake, with vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, lactose-free and kosher options; the kosher certification comes from the rabbinate of the Prague Jewish Community, and it also caters events.

Five of the cafés are by Karlovo náměstí, near Náměstí Míru, in Nusle, in Podolí and on Náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad. The sixth, Café Nezisk in Hradčany, gives its space each month to one non-profit organisation, records a podcast with it and sends it that month’s profit.

Coffee on the shelf

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