Cafelito Coffee Co. roasts its own coffee and runs a chain of five cafés in Warsaw under the name Cafe Central: two in Śródmieście, one in Powiśle and two in Wola. The cafés pour Cafelito coffee and sell the beans to take home, ground on request for an espresso machine, a moka pot, a drip or a French press. The roastery’s motto is “We do what we do, because we love doing what we do.”
The range runs from blends named after animals (lions, elephants, camels, birds, eagles and monkeys) to single lots from East Africa and Central America. Several of the blends mix arabica with robusta for espresso and the moka pot, and the roastery also sells a Fine Robusta from the Kaweri plantation in Uganda, inoculated with yeast and fermented without oxygen for 48 hours before drying. Some are omni roasts, for espresso and filter alike. Alongside the beans, Cafelito sells drip bags and its own Brawo Tea line.
The summer 2026 menu at Cafe Central added Flash Drip, chilled tonic poured through a drip bag, and malt drinks with a flavour likened to Maltesers. The cafés also stock dog treats from Hej Piesku.
Cafelito organises the Polish AeroPress Championship, with qualifying heats hosted by other cafés. The 2026 season ended with the final at Coffee Europe Expo in Nadarzyn, outside Warsaw, on 17 September.
Coffee on the shelf
- Grejpfrut
- Soczyste jabłko
- Słodkie
- Czekoladowy
- Gorzka czekolada
- Prażone orzechy
- Pomelo
- Czerwone winogrona
- Czekolada
- Orzechy włoskie
- Ananas
- Papaja
- Kwiat kawowca
- Słodki melon
- Ciemna czekolada
- Prażone orzechy
- Pomelo
- Zurawina
- Orzech włoski
- Jabłko w karmelu
- Ciasteczka chocolate chip
- Nektarynka
- Orzechy laskowe
- Owoce pestkowe
- Wiśniowe brownie
- Marcepan
- Orzechy
- Kakao
- Czarna porzeczka
- Czerwone winogrona
- Zurawina
- Rabarbar
Photograph: Cafe Central