Rocket Bean is a Latvian roaster, run by King Coffee Service, that covers coffee from sourcing and roasting to serving. It has been working for more than 15 years and has a team of over 70 people across the Baltics. By its own account it is the fastest-growing specialty coffee roastery and coffee shop business in Northern Europe.

The team travels to meet farmers in Africa, Indonesia, Central America and Latin America, and checks how each farm processes its coffee before agreeing a deal. The green coffee is shipped to Latvia and roasted there. Rocket Bean has won several gold medals at the Global Coffee Awards, among them for its Colombia decaf and its Rocket Fuel coffee, and a European Coffee Trip Award in 2025. Its Cold Brew Coffee Kombucha, made with Hard Tank technology, was named Best Innovation in the Coffee Industry in 2020, “The Most Innovative Beverage” at the Gulfood Innovation Awards 2022 and Best New Product in the Open Class at World of Coffee 2022 in Milan.

Rocket Bean Miera in central Riga is the roastery café, and there are more Rocket Bean cafés in the city, a café in the Kalamaja district of Tallinn and one in Vilnius. Beyond its cafés, Rocket Bean supplies offices, hotels, restaurants and petrol stations and rents out coffee machines.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Rocket Bean