Ministerstwo Kawy opened in 2011 by Plac Zbawiciela. It pours only lighter roasts of single-origin coffee, and much of what goes through its grinders comes from roasters it has worked with for years, among them Koppi, Gardelli and Right Side, alongside others from Poland and abroad.
The café hosted the Polish AeroPress Championship in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Many of the baristas who worked there went on to open cafés of their own or to build careers with coffee companies in Poland and abroad.
A second Ministerstwo Kawy opened in Stare Bielany in 2021, on the same avenue as the café of Story Coffee Roasters. It is now also the home of the business’s own roastery, built around a ROEST P3000, and some of the coffee in both cafés’ milk drinks and quick filters is roasted there. For espresso it roasts a Brazilian Red Catuai and a Kenyan lot from Mutitu, and for filter the same Kenyan coffee and a Honduran lot from El Jardin. Bags of these coffees are due to go on sale.
At the Plac Zbawiciela café, laptops go only at the designated seats on weekdays, and not at all at weekends or on public holidays.
Coffee on the shelf
- Koppi Guest roaster
- Gardelli Guest roaster
- Right Side Coffee Roasters Guest roaster
Photograph: Ministerstwo Kawy