miró manufactura de café was founded in 2013 by the brothers Dani and David Sanchez, after Dani got hooked on specialty coffee in Australia. It started with a 5 kg Probat roaster in a small disused garage in the suburbs, and its “first child” was a coffee truck. The café moved twice before settling in 2018 in Kreis 4, in the building that now holds the roastery, the shop and the training and lab facilities.

miró Brauer is the flagship, where the beans are roasted almost daily and the Espresso and Filter Masterclasses are held. The kitchen serves a short Spanish-inspired breakfast made from organic produce, most of it Swiss, with brunch at weekends and focaccia sandwiches on Mondays and Fridays. There are no reservations, and no laptops at weekends. miró Kreuzplatz is the newest café, two take-away bars sit in Zurich main station, one on the Europaallee side and one on the lower level of the station hall, and the coffee truck parks at ETH Hönggerberg on Wednesdays.

The coffees are seasonal and roasted every week, and miró imports its own green coffee. Most of it is fair trade and organic, some of it certified or direct trade. Boa Vista from Brazil was miró’s first direct trade coffee, found when David visited the exporter Sancoffee in Minas Gerais in search of a chocolate-forward coffee. Most coffees in the Filter and Espresso subscriptions are sold only there. Since April 2021 miró has been brewed on board SWISS flights, and many cafés, bars and hotels in Zurich pour it as their house coffee.

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