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Coffee beans to take home from Brasília
Almost every roaster in Brasília sells its coffee by the bag at the counter. Quanto also sells by weight, Studio Grão and Acervo stock named lots, Pilotis and Muy let you taste before you choose, Mercado do Café runs a monthly coffee club, and Calmaria sells its own coffee with V60 kits. Ask for whole beans and the roast date.
The shops
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No. 1
Quanto Café
Asa NorteMust-try
Quanto opened in 2018 on CLN 103 Norte and has roasted its own coffee there since 2021. The house rule is that no beans are served more than 40 days after roasting. Filter coffee is brewed in a Hario V60 or an AeroPress, with lots from regions such as Caparaó and the Cerrado Mineiro, and the espresso is a 40 ml double. The tables sit on a wooden deck under the trees, the kitchen makes its own food, and you can buy the house coffee by weight.
Asa Norte Comércio Local Norte 103 BL A Loja 52 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70732-510, Brazil
No. 2
Los Baristas. Coffee House
Asa NorteMust-try
Los Baristas has been on the commercial block of CLN 404 Norte for more than a decade and now roasts the coffee it serves and sells. It buys from producers it knows and tells the story of each farm, and recent posts feature a lot from Piatã, in the Chapada Diamantina. The filter menu has long been the draw, with several hand-brew methods, and the baristas like to explain them from behind the counter. Sit at the bar, ask for the lot of the day and take a bag home.
Asa Norte CLN 404 Loja 38/34 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70845-530, Brazil
No. 3
Civitá Café
Asa NorteMust-try
Civitá began in 2014 and, since 2021, its café on the 709 Norte strip has also been its roastery and its coffee school. Co-owner Fernando Bakker roasts the coffee and teaches, and the lots on the menu carry the producer's name, with many from Bahia this harvest. The Escola de Cafés runs courses from the basics to home brewing and sensory evaluation. The room is small, with about forty seats. Ask what came out of the roaster this week and try it as a filter.
SCLRN 709 Bloco F - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70750-516, Brazil
No. 4
AHA! Cafés
Asa NorteMust-try
AHA started in 2016 as a micro-roastery and later opened a café, which shares a space with the roastery and the coffee shop on CLN 111 Norte. The owners buy hand-picked lots from small farms in Caparaó, Bahia and the Mogiana and work with growers near Brasília. The coffee list changes with the harvest and names the producing family. Try a filter on the Gabi dripper or the batch brew, with a slice of the house broa, and take a 250 g bag home.
Asa Norte QUADRA 111 BL A - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70754-510, Brazil
No. 5
ACERVO CAFÉ
Asa Norte+1 locationMust-try
Acervo began in 2017 as a tiny café in Guará and grew into a roastery that buys its lots from farms and producer associations, from a Gesha grown in Carmo de Minas to catuaí from the Caparaó. Its recent coffees include a lot from producer Rodrigo Mazzoco made with the Danish roaster La Cabra. This café on CLN 116 is its newest room, designed by founder Paulo Lins, with large windows, plants and music chosen with care. Order a filter of the current lot and stay a while. Its second café, on the mezzanine of the Livraria da Travessa bookshop at CasaPark in Guará, seats about a hundred among the shelves.
Asa Norte Superquadra Norte 116 CLN 116 Edifício Castanheira, Bloco F Loja 47 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70773-560, Brazil
No. 6
Studio Grão Coffee Roasters
Sudoeste+2 locationsMust-try
Studio Grão is a roastery first: it supplies cafés around Brazil and, from this shop on 301 Sudoeste, runs a coffee school whose modules go from the basics to extraction methods, water and sensory analysis. The coffees come from different regions, varieties and post-harvest processes, and the shelf names its lots, a Geisha and a Catucaí among them. Ask the bar to brew two lots side by side to compare them, and take a bag of the one you prefer.
St. Sudoeste SQSW 301 subsolo - Sudoeste, Brasília - DF, 70673-602, Brazil
No. 7
Muy Café Brasília
Asa SulMust-try
Muy is a specialty roaster from Goiânia, and its Brasília shop on CLS 307 Sul is a place to taste before you buy rather than a classic café. Walk in and the team will brew the coffees you are curious about at the counter and talk you through origin, process and tasting notes. The coffees come from several Brazilian regions and the shop also runs a subscription club. Come here to choose your beans, and leave with a bag.
CLS 307, BLOCO C, LOJA 29, ASA SUL, BRASILIA DF, 70354530, Brasília - DF, 70354-530, Brazil
No. 8
Brasilia Coffee's Market
Asa SulGood
Mercado do Café, on the W3 Sul at CRS 509, is a café, a coffee shop and a training room in one place. Founder Tete Moulaz, whose family grows coffee, opened it in 2018 and still works the bar. The menu runs from espresso to filter, French press and AeroPress, and the house coffee, Moulaz, is chocolatey and full-bodied. The space runs courses on brewing and roasting, and in 2024 it was the venue for a stage of the Brazilian Latte Art Championship. Buy a bag or join the coffee club before you leave.
Asa Sul Comércio Residencial Sul 509 Bl C - Asa Sul, Brasília - DF, 70360-530, Brazil
No. 9
Ernesto Specialty Coffees
Asa Sul+1 locationGood
Ernesto opened on 115 Sul in 2011 and is one of the cafés that started Brasília's specialty scene. Since 2021 it has roasted its own coffee, with master roaster Marcelo Ribeiro checking the beans, the storage and the roast, and in 2024 its coffee was used in the Brazilian Latte Art Championship stage held in the city. Filter comes by V60 or French press, with origins that change with the harvest. The bread comes from its own bakery, and the house is big and busy from early morning to late evening.
Asa Sul CLS 115 BL C - Asa Sul, Brasília - DF, 70385-530, Brazil
No. 10
Pilotis
Asa NorteGood
Pilotis has roasted coffee in Brasília since 2018, and in 2025 it opened a shop and lab on CLN 315 Norte. The name comes from the columns that lift the city's buildings, and many of its coffees are numbered after the superquadras. It is a roaster's counter more than a café: you walk in, taste coffees brewed in a V60, a French press, an AeroPress or as cold brew, and buy the bag you like. It also runs courses and workshops. Check the afternoon hours before you go.
Asa Norte CLN 315 BL D Lj 56 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70774-540, Brazil
No. 11
Calmaria café
SudoesteGood
Calmaria, on Quadra 3 of the Sudoeste, is a café and brunch spot that serves both all day. Filter coffee is brewed to order in a V60 or a French press, in two sizes, next to espresso, macchiato, cappuccinos and an espresso tonic with lemon. The shop also sells its own specialty coffee in 250 g bags, with V60 kits, drippers and French presses, so you can brew the same coffee at home. Order a V60 at the table and take a bag with you when you leave.
St. Sudoeste Q. Res. Sudoeste 3 lote 01 - Sudoeste/Octogonal, Brasília - DF, 70675-300, Brazil
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