GOTA Coffee Experts began with a trip to Peru. Back in Vienna the coffee did not taste the same, and the siblings Katharina and Markus Brun set out to bring that kind of coffee home. They opened in 2017 with eight seats in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, the 15th district, and in September 2021 reopened in a new café with more than 45 seats. GOTA Coffee Plus is its room for workshops, from latte art and home barista courses to filter brewing and SCA classes, and the Miraflores florist shares the address under a “Coffee and Flowers” concept.

GOTA roasts its own coffees, light to medium, under the motto “We Harvest, Roast, Brew & Serve”. The range changes with quality, season and harvest, and many lots are bought as “great traded coffee”: a Gesha, a Sidra and a Pink Bourbon from Jairo Arcila in Colombia, naturals from Peru and El Salvador, a sugarcane decaf from the Nasa We’sx community in Tolima, and the GOTA Blend of Peru and El Salvador. The Costa Rica from the Las Lajas farm was the winning coffee at the Austrian Coffee in Good Spirits Championship 2022, and Markus won the Best Coffee in Spirits award with a Coffee Negroni Sbagliato.

GOTA 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, pâtissiers bake the pastries, tables can be reserved, and the GOTA Running Club runs weekly from the café to Schönbrunn and back, with breakfast and batch brew afterwards.

Coffee on the shelf

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