Four places that put speciality coffee first
Four Sofia stops with serious coffee credentials
If you’d call yourself a coffee nerd, this selection is for you.
There’s more to speciality coffee than its name. It’s a sensory habit, a particular kind of attention. Sofia’s scene has long had its own rhythm: small spaces, carefully selected beans and people whose interest goes beyond “sugar or no sugar?”. These four places have every chance of becoming regular stops.
At Daily Drip Coffee Shop, the idea is simple: feel at home from the first hello. It’s an easy addition to the day, whether you take a cup away or stay to
enjoy 100% Arabica prepared with care.
The menu includes blends and single origins, with flavours to explore as espresso or V60 filter coffee. We’re fond of small coffee rituals. Sometimes a very good cappuccino gives the whole day a point.
21 Patriarh Evtimiy Boulevard
+359 896 142 501
Gentlemen’s Roastery Lab arrived as a brand in 2025, but its story began with Columbus Coffee Lab in 2014. It continues more than a decade of speciality-coffee work: selecting beans, roasting in-house and looking for a better cup. Gentlemen’s is both a specialist roastery and a coffee bar.
The team roasts on its own production roaster,
following the process closely from green-coffee selection and roast profile to extraction at the bar. Coffees from different farms and origins are roasted to reveal their individual character. The range includes classic, sweet, balanced profiles as well as bright single origins and rare lots, for people who want a very good everyday coffee and those who like to explore. They roast. You drink. The flavour stays with you.
39 Tsar Shishman Street
+359 878 379 933
www.gentlemensroasterylab.bg
At EZAR, speciality coffee comes with a clear origin and care over the details. Selected coffees from established farms in Brazil, Ethiopia, Colombia, Mexico and Peru offer different processing methods, profiles and tasting notes.
The menu includes house blends and single origins,
with information running from roast date to the specific growing region. In warmer months, the freddo cappuccino is a favourite. For coffee at home, the baristas will help you choose beans and a grind suited to your brewing method.
7A Aksakov Street
+359 884 684 913
www.ezarkafe.com
At Story Cups, there’s always something new to discover. Alongside familiar favourites are carefully chosen microlots and experimental processes, ranging from fresh and fruity to deeper, more complex profiles. Highlights include
Colombian coffees co-fermented with peach and lychee,
and an Advanced Natural microlot from Huila with notes of cherry, apricot and walnut. The selection changes, but the attention to origin, processing and the way each flavour reaches the cup stays the same.
20 Tsar Ivan Asen II Street
+359 887 996 962
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