Vienna coffee guide: the coffeehouse city that roasts its own

Vienna has been known for its coffeehouses for centuries. The cafés in this guide belong to a younger scene: eleven of these twelve businesses roast their own coffee, and the twelfth pours coffee roasted for it in Bavaria. Several of them come from Austria’s competition circuit, with national champions in brewing, cup tasting and latte art among their founders and teams, and a vice champion in roasting. These coffee shops in Vienna are spread across the districts, from the Innere Stadt and Leopoldstadt to Alsergrund, Josefstadt, Mariahilf, Wieden and Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus.

GOTA Coffee Experts, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus

GOTA Coffee Experts started after a trip to Peru, when the coffee back in Vienna no longer tasted the same. The siblings Katharina and Markus Brun opened it in 2017 with eight seats in the 15th district, and in September 2021 reopened in a new café with more than 45 seats. GOTA Coffee Plus is its room for latte art, home barista, filter and SCA courses. GOTA roasts its own coffees, light to medium, under the motto “We Harvest, Roast, Brew & Serve”, among them a Gesha, a Sidra and a Pink Bourbon from Jairo Arcila in Colombia and a Costa Rica from the Las Lajas farm that was the winning coffee at the Austrian Coffee in Good Spirits Championship 2022. It was third in the World’s 100 Best Coffee Shops and first in Europe in 2025, and second in Europe’s 100 Best Coffee Shops in 2026. The kitchen serves breakfast and brunch, tables can be reserved, and the GOTA Running Club runs from the café to Schönbrunn and back every week.

Jonas Reindl Coffee Roasters, four cafés from Alsergrund to Landstraße

Jonas Reindl Coffee Roasters takes its name from the Schottentor transport hub across the street from its first café in Alsergrund. Built under Mayor Franz Jonas in 1961, the station is shaped like a cooking pan, a Reindl in Viennese, so the residents ironically named the area Jonas’ pan. All the coffee is roasted at the café and roastery in Neubau, in batches of no more than 10 kg, and there are cafés in Josefstadt and Landstraße too. The house espresso, Misty Mountain, is the one coffee that never changes: the founder and head roaster Philip Feyer chose it after visiting Ulrich Salamun’s organically certified estate in the Cerro Kilambé reserve in Nicaragua, and it is imported directly. The filter list rotates through lots such as a lychee and wine-yeast co-ferment from Quindío and an anaerobic natural from Yirgacheffe.

Coffee Pirates, Alsergrund

Coffee Pirates opened in Alsergrund, the 9th district, in 2012, and by its own account was the first organic-certified third-wave coffee shop and roastery in Vienna. The café is meant as “a modern translation of the traditional Viennese coffeehouse culture”, a place for a quick cup, a homemade pastry or a few hours away from home, near the university, with the Coffee Pirates Bakery next door and work by the artist Norbert Brunner on the walls. The coffee is roasted in Vienna. The team travels to coffee-growing countries to build long-term relationships with farmers and cooperatives, and Coffee Pirates pays three to five times the market or Fairtrade price for exceptional coffees. The range runs from organic house blends for espresso to single origins and a water-processed decaf.

kaffeefabrik, Wieden and Mariahilf

kaffeefabrik roasts coffee that is “bio angebaut, fair gehandelt, lokal geröstet”: organic, fairly traded and roasted locally. It belongs to Roasters United, a cooperative of small European roasters that imports organic coffee together from the same producer cooperatives each year, from Indonesia and India to Ethiopia, Uganda, Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Honduras. The espresso bar in Wieden is the original kaffeefabrik, open for 15 years, and the café in Mariahilf adds cake for breakfast and filter roasts brewed in a Clever Dripper. Both pour two espresso roasts at a time, one dark, one lighter and fruitier, and change them about every two weeks. On Saturdays the whole range is on sale at a stand at the Brunnenmarkt, and kaffeefabrik runs a coffee school as well.

Süssmund Kaffee, Innere Stadt

Süssmund Kaffee was founded in 2014 by Nikolaus Hartmann, an architect who gave up architecture for coffee and won the Austrian Brewers Cup in 2014 and 2015. Süssmund roasts every week in Simmering on a handmade drum roaster from Greece, with a profile for each coffee, and trades as directly as it can. Its partners include the Unión Majomut cooperative in Chiapas, the Andrade family in Minas Gerais, the women’s groups of El Bombo in Colombia and La Prosperidad de Chirinos in Peru, and Mass & Plantrich in Kerala, whose robusta goes into darker blends such as Nocciola. Every Süssmund coffee can be drunk at the Süssmund Kaffee Shop in the Innere Stadt, which also sells the beans.

Kaffeemodul, Josefstadt

Kaffeemodul is, by its own account, the smallest coffee shop in Vienna, with a short rule: “Wir machen Kaffee. Alles andere sollen andere machen.” We make coffee, everything else others should make. The team includes Valentin, the Austrian Brewers Cup champion of 2016, and Boris, the Austrian Cup Tasting champion of the same year. Its coffee comes from nomi coffee, Kaffeemodul’s own roastery in Simmering, which buys from small importers such as The Coffee Quest and Nordic Approach and lists the price paid at origin for every green coffee, with a minimum set above the Fair Trade price. Several coffees come in a filter roast and an espresso roast, and the bar sells all of them, with a changing selection to taste. Kaffeemodul also holds workshops and takes a mobile bar to events.

Vogel Kaffee, Leopoldstadt

Vogel Kaffee is a family-run micro-roastery and café in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district, opened in 2019 by Ali and Michaela Vogel. Ali is the Austrian latte art champion of 2024; Michaela bakes the cheesecakes and pâtisserie. The house blend pairs Brazil and Nicaragua, and the single origins run from an East Javan natural for espresso to washed Ethiopian and Kenyan lots for filter, with some, such as a super natural Chelchele from Yirgacheffe, roasted for both. Vogel also caters events with a mobile coffee bar, in Austria and abroad, and runs a barista school.

Koun Coffee, Wieden

Koun Coffee was founded by Dominik Bruno Pausch after more than two decades in hospitality. Its roasts made it the Austrian vice roasting champion in 2023, and Falstaff placed it in the top three roasteries in Vienna in 2025. Koun trades directly with farmers it visits, and its range is short: espresso roasts from Brazil, Colombia and Peru, filter roasts from Ethiopia and Colombia, among them a black honey from Lalesa, and a sugar cane decaf from Huila. The Koun Coffee Shop near Karlsplatz holds tastings, serves unusual drinks and freshly baked cornetti, and sells the roasts, limited editions included.

OAKBREW, Innere Stadt and Wieden

OAKBREW began with a meeting in Vienna: Bradley brought roasting from South Africa, and Yannick brought a love of craft and woodwork from Switzerland. OAK stands for the wood and BREW for the coffee. OAKBREW roasts its own, a short range of Cocoa Espresso from Brazil, Milk & Crumb for milk drinks and a honey-processed Burundi Bliss for filter. There are two cafés, one in the Innere Stadt with a La Marzocco barista school on the first floor, and one in Wieden.

BEANDEPENDENT, Volkertviertel

BEANDEPENDENT is a one-person coffee shop and micro-roastery near the Augarten, next to the Volkertmarkt, open since the summer of 2024 in a corner of Leopoldstadt with a sleepy reputation. Every coffee brewed and served is roasted in house, in batches of 500 g for filter and up to about a kilo for espresso, each roasted for the way it will be brewed. The coffees rotate through seasonal single origins and micro lots, with a Signature Blend for espresso and a decaf, and a direct-trade link to a family farm in Nyeri, Kenya, supplies limited editions called “Origin Originals”. The bar is clad in recycled PET panels, and behind it the micro-roastery houses a La Marzocco Home showroom.

The Good Coffee Society, Mariahilf, Leopoldstadt and Alsergrund

The Good Coffee Society is the work of Daniel and Riccardo, two coffee nerds who had worked in cafés around the world before opening their first in Vienna in 2021. They source and roast coffee, and the shelves carry beans from roasters abroad that are hard to find elsewhere in Vienna beside house roasts such as the Stumpergasse Mix #2 espresso blend. The first café, in Mariahilf, is a shoebox of a room with a garden at the front and a 30-minute limit for laptops. Leopoldstadt serves breakfast all day by a fireplace, and the Lab in Alsergrund, a large Altbau room with a shared table, changes its coffee menu weekly and hosts roaster takeovers. None of the three takes reservations.

BALTHASAR Kaffee Bar, Leopoldstadt

BALTHASAR Kaffee Bar is run by Otto and Theresia Bayer in Leopoldstadt. Its coffee is roasted for it by Wildkaffee, Leonhard Wild’s roastery in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and BALTHASAR buys directly from producers rather than through certification labels. The bar pours espresso, several filter methods, cold brews and iced coffees, with teas, organic lemonades and a few wines, and food from local producers where possible. The beans roasted for the bar are sold at the counter. There are no reservations, and around the corner the BALTHASAR LAB holds barista workshops for groups of four to six.

What you need to know about Vienna specialty coffee

Which Vienna coffee shops roast their own coffee? GOTA, Jonas Reindl, Coffee Pirates, kaffeefabrik, Süssmund, Kaffeemodul through nomi coffee, Vogel, Koun, OAKBREW and BEANDEPENDENT all roast their own, and The Good Coffee Society has house roasts beside coffees from other roasters.

Where is the coffee roasted? Süssmund and nomi coffee roast in Simmering, Jonas Reindl at its café and roastery in Neubau, BEANDEPENDENT in its own shop in Leopoldstadt, and Coffee Pirates and kaffeefabrik in Vienna. BALTHASAR’s coffee is roasted by Wildkaffee in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Which cafés have Austrian champions behind them? Süssmund’s Nikolaus Hartmann won the Austrian Brewers Cup in 2014 and 2015, Kaffeemodul’s Valentin won it in 2016 and Boris the Austrian Cup Tasting Championship that year, Vogel’s Ali Vogel is the 2024 Austrian latte art champion, and Koun was the Austrian vice roasting champion in 2023.

Can you book a table? GOTA takes reservations. BALTHASAR and the three Good Coffee Society cafés do not.

Where can you learn to make coffee? GOTA Coffee Plus, the kaffeefabrik coffee school, the Vogel barista school, the OAKBREW barista school in the Innere Stadt and the BALTHASAR LAB all run courses, and Kaffeemodul holds workshops on request.

Where can you have breakfast? GOTA serves breakfast and brunch, The Good Coffee Society serves breakfast all day in Leopoldstadt, and kaffeefabrik’s Mariahilf café has cake for breakfast.