Coffee Source started in 2003 by importing specialty coffee from a small Italian roastery along with La Marzocco machines. By 2005 it was selling coffee roasted by local roasters, and in 2007 it began roasting in its own roastery. A showroom and café followed in 2013 in Hostivař, and the café in Vinohrady opened in 2019. The Hostivař site is now an unstaffed shop, and since 2025 Coffee Source has also roasted coffee into capsules.

The roasting happens on a Coffee-Tech R45 drum roaster built to Coffee Source’s own specification. The roasters aim for neither a light nor a dark roast, stopping each batch when the flavours are fully developed. Every batch is cupped and given a flavour profile and an SCA score, and after roasting the beans are sorted twice on the roastery’s own laser sorter. Samples are shipped straight from the farms, so the team can taste dozens to hundreds of coffees a year without flying, and part of the green coffee arrives under sail. Coffee Source buys from farmers it works with over the long term and keeps some certified organic coffees in its range, such as the Suke Quto lots from Tesfaye Bekele’s farm in Guji, which it has bought for several years.

The Vinohrady café serves coffee drinks and cakes and sells beans, and Coffee Source also runs barista courses and a loyalty programme.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Coffee Source