Vogel Kaffee is the story of Ali and Michaela Vogel and of two passions that fit together: good coffee and good baking. Ali is the Austrian latte art champion of 2024 and a several-time finalist at the national championships, and he competed at the World Latte Art Championship in Copenhagen that year. Michaela bakes the cheesecakes and pâtisserie. They opened their café in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district, in 2019, and run it as a family business that makes as much as it can itself and works with local suppliers it knows personally.

Vogel is a micro-roastery, and its coffees sell in the café as well as online. The house blend pairs Brazil and Nicaragua, the Kraft Blend is 60% arabica and 40% robusta from Brazil and India, and the single origins run from a natural Indonesian from East Java and a Doce Diamantina from Brazil’s Cerrado for espresso to washed Ethiopian and Kenyan lots for filter. Some, such as the super natural Chelchele from Yirgacheffe and a Papayo and Ombligon natural from Huila, are roasted for both.

Beyond the café, Vogel caters events with a mobile coffee bar, La Marzocco machines and Mazzer and Mahlkönig grinders, in Austria and abroad, with home-baked pastries and finger food on request. In the Vogel barista school the team teaches espresso, brewing methods and latte art to professionals and home baristas.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Vogel Kaffee