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A coffee guide to Brasília

How to spend a coffee day in Brasília: where the roasters are, what to order and when to go.

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Specialty coffee in Brasília grew out of a few cafés in the commercial blocks of the Plano Piloto. Ernesto opened in the Asa Sul in 2011, and by 2016 Los Baristas in the Asa Norte had a brew bar with several hand-brew methods. The next step was roasting. AHA! Cafés started as a micro-roastery in 2016, Pilotis began roasting in 2018, Quanto Café and Civitá Café added roasters in 2021, and by 2023 the local press counted more than a dozen roasters in the city. In 2021 a newspaper coffee map, the Mapa Afetivo dos Cafés, put many of the cafés in this guide on one page.

The city is built in sectors, so the cafés cluster in the commercial strips between the residential superquadras. The Asa Norte is the best base for a coffee day: Quanto Café is at 103, the Asa Norte Ernesto at 108, AHA! Cafés and Concreto Café share the 111 strip, Los Baristas is at 404 and Pató at 407, and Civitá Café and Marilda Café sit near the W3 at 709 and 716. Further north, Acervo Café is at 116, Pilotis at 315 and Studio Grão at 413. In the Asa Sul, Muy is at 307, Mercado do Café is on the W3 at 509 and the original Ernesto is at 115. The Sudoeste has the Studio Grão flagship, a short walk from Saboretto. Distances are long and the blocks are built for cars, so plan one wing per morning and use a ride app between them.

What to order: a hand-brewed filter of a Brazilian lot. Menus often name the region and the producer, and the Caparaó, Bahia, the Mogiana and the Cerrado Mineiro come up often. Several cafés serve a microlot in a V60, an AeroPress or a Clever, and Saboretto brings a card with the origin, variety and process of every cup. For a different take, Nitrogênio has built its whole menu around cold brew and nitro coffee.

Most cafés open in the morning and close in the early evening, and many close on Sunday or Monday, so check the hours on each shop's own page before you go. Ernesto keeps the longest hours, from seven in the morning to ten at night. Pilotis opens only in the afternoon on weekdays and on Saturday morning.

To take beans home, buy them from the cafés that roast. AHA! Cafés, Quanto Café, Civitá Café, Los Baristas, Studio Grão, Acervo, Pilotis and Muy all sell their own roasts in bags, and at Pilotis and Muy you can taste at the counter before you choose. Ask for whole beans and the roast date. Each June the Coffee Brasília festival brings the city's roasters, baristas and producers together for four days.

Where to start

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Quanto Café, Brasília
Quanto Café.Photo: Google Maps

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. No. 7

    Marilda Café

    Asa NorteMust-try

    Marilda is a neighbourhood café on 716 Norte, on the W3 side, open every day from nine in the morning to eight at night. The coffee list goes further than most all-day cafés: espresso drinks, a house filter, and a microlot brewed to order in a V60, an AeroPress or a Clever. The kitchen covers toasts, sandwiches, a short lunch menu and homemade cakes, and there is a quieter room downstairs. Order the microlot by the method you prefer and stay for a slice of apple crumble.

    SCLRN 716 BL C Rua paralela a w3 Loja 57 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70770-533, Brazil

  8. No. 8

    Pató Cafeteria

    Asa NorteMust-try

    Pató is a small café and patisserie on the corner of the CLN 407 Norte commercial block. Coplanar Arquitetura designed it in 2021: the canopy is the main seating area and looks over the superquadra's green, and the black-and-white tiles honour Athos Bulcão, who designed the façade of the school next door. The bar serves espresso, a house filter coffee and cold brew drinks such as the Gengibrew, with ginger and lemon. Pair your cup with a pastel de nata made from Vó Therezinha's recipe. The chocolate in the mocha is made in house.

    Asa Norte CLN 407 BLOCO B LOJA 17 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70855-520, Brazil

  9. No. 9

    Concreto Café

    Asa NorteMust-try

    Concreto is a small specialty café on the commercial block of 111 Norte. Next to the espresso bar it brews filter coffee by method, and since it opened in 2024 the baristas have walked customers through the coffees, which have included natural and fermented lots. Ask what is on for filter that week. Cold brew and iced lattes cover the hot afternoons, and the short food menu makes it an easy stop for a coffee and a light bite between the other cafés on the 111 strip.

    Asa Norte CLN 111 Lj 43 - Plano Piloto, Brasília - DF, 70754-530, Brazil

  10. No. 10

    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

  11. No. 11

    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

  12. No. 12

    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

  13. No. 13

    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

  14. No. 14

    Saboretto Cafés Especiais

    SudoesteGood

    Saboretto is a small café on a commercial block in Sudoeste that treats each cup as a lot with a story. Every coffee arrives with a card that names the origin, the producer, the variety, the post-harvest process, the altitude and the tasting notes. For filter the bar uses an Orea V4, a flat-bottom brewer that gives a quick, even extraction. The house bakes its own bread, the caprese toast is a regular order, and on Sundays it opens in the morning for brunch.

    St. Sudoeste CLSW 300 B loja 02 - Plano Piloto, Brasília - DF, 70673-083, Brazil

  15. No. 15

    Lazo Café de Especialidade

    SIGGood

    Lazo roasts each of its coffees separately, in small batches, from beans it buys directly from small and medium Brazilian producers. Its first café is in the Centro Empresarial Parque Brasília, in the SIG, and opens on weekdays from eight in the morning, which makes it a natural stop for a focused hour of work with a filter at your side. There is a short lunch menu as well as coffee, and the banoffee is the dessert the café likes to show off.

    SIG QUADRA 1 LOTE 985 Centro Empresarial Parque Brasília, SIG, Brasília - DF, 70610-410, Brazil

  16. No. 16

    Paradeiro

    Asa NorteGood

    Paradeiro is a street bookshop on CLN 309 Norte with a café and a small kitchen, and it reads as a meeting place more than a coffee bar. The coffee is specialty coffee from Mokado Lab de Cafés, a Brasília roaster, and the room fills up for book launches, talks with authors, writing meetups and workshops. Come in the afternoon, take a coffee to a table between the shelves, and check the agenda on its Instagram before you go, because the evenings are often booked with events.

    Asa Norte CLN 309 Lj 60 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70755-540, Brazil

  17. No. 17

    Betina Cat Café

    Asa NorteGood

    Betina opened in 2022 as Brasília's first cat café, on CLN 409 Norte, and runs alongside a rescue and adoption project: the cats in the room are looking for homes, and you pay for a short session with them. The coffee is specialty coffee from Mokado, the Brasília roastery whose head roaster won the Brazilian roasting championship, and the drinks menu plays with the theme, from the Catpuccino to cold brews. It opens in the afternoon, Tuesday to Sunday.

    Asa Norte CLN 409 BL C - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 71857-530, Brazil

  18. No. 18

    Nitrogenio Café

    Asa NorteGood

    Nitrogênio calls itself Brazil's first café that specialises in cold brew. The cold brew steeps for 22 to 24 hours and is filtered twice, and the nitro coffee is that cold brew infused with nitrogen, which makes it creamy and smooth. Since August 2026 it runs as a snack bar inside the Escola Meiaseteoito at 704/705 Norte, on the side that faces the 704. It is still open to the public, with tables outside, while the school uses the main room. Order a nitro on its own or mixed with orange juice or coconut water.

    St. de Habitações Coletivas e Geminadas Norte SCRN 704/705 LOJA 06 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70730-620, Brazil

  19. No. 19

    The Coffee Hut

    Asa NorteGood

    The Coffee Hut is an all-day café on the commercial block of 213 Norte, open every day. The espresso comes from Mokado, a Brasília roastery whose master roaster won the national roasting championship in 2024, and the cappuccino is made the Italian way, with only espresso and steamed milk. Brunch combos, lunch and cakes fill much of the menu, and the house keeps room for people who come to work, so it suits a long morning with a laptop more than a quick tasting.

    Asa Norte CLN 213 BL B Lj 20 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70872-520, Brazil

  20. No. 20

    Dylan Cafe & Bakery

    Asa SulGood

    Dylan is a café and sourdough bakery on SCLS 315 Sul, run by Fabrício Campos. The breads rise slowly with natural leaven, including a 100% wholegrain loaf made with stone-ground flour, and the pastrami sandwich on the house baguette has been on the menu since the first day. The coffee side is small: espresso drinks that the shop calls specialty coffee, including a cappuccino with oat milk and pure cocoa. On weekdays it opens in the afternoon, there is brunch on weekend mornings, and on pizza nights you can bring your own wine with no corkage fee.

    15 - SCLS Quadra 315 - Asa Sul, Brasília - DF, 70384-510, Brazil

  21. No. 21

    Cerrado Vivo Café

    Lago SulGood

    Cerrado Vivo opened in 2025 in Lago Sul, at QI 03 next to the Medical Plaza. Biologist Samara Teixeira started it as a meeting point between people and the Cerrado. You sit on an outdoor deck or in a small indoor room, toucans, macaws and gralhas-cancã often stop by, and there are books about the biome to read. The coffee comes from the Seleções brand, from several Brazilian regions including the Centre-West, served as filter, espresso or cappuccino. Try the baru brownie, made with the region's nut, or a house tea named after Brasília, such as the Céu de Brasília.

    St. de Habitações Individuais Sul QI 03 Área Especial - Lago Sul, Brasília - DF, 71605-200, Brazil

  22. No. 22

    Di Prosa em Prosa

    Asa NorteGood

    Di Prosa em Prosa is a Minas Gerais-style café on CLN 112 Norte, opened in 2025 by Mariana and her husband, who moved to Brasília to start it. The shop sits in the commercial block but faces the residential side. The menu is built on Minas quitandas: the pão de queijo and the pastel de fubá come straight from Minas, and the coffee is passado na hora, brewed to order, good with a piece of rapadura. The owners open the room to the neighbourhood too, with watercolour and glass-painting workshops, crochet meet-ups and book launches.

    Asa Norte CLN 112 BL A térreo, loja 46 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70762-510, Brazil

  23. No. 23

    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

  24. No. 24

    Café Angelita

    Asa SulGood

    Café Angelita on CLS 409 Sul is a café and bistro with European décor and four rooms to choose from. The ground floor feels like a French café, the mezzanine is quieter, the side veranda suits a slow dinner, and the courtyard has a long family table, a fountain and a playground. Filter coffee comes as a coado or brewed in a V60 or a French press, with three coffees to choose from, next to espresso and cappuccinos. It serves from breakfast to dinner, and the breakfast sets come with sourdough bread baked in house.

    Asa Sul CLS 409 bloco D Lj 06 - Asa Sul, Brasília - DF, 70258-540, Brazil

  25. No. 25

    Castanho Café

    Asa NorteGood

    Castanho sits one level down from the CLN 108 Norte commercial block, facing the residential buildings instead of the street. Its motto is "made to share", and the weekend brunch boards are built for groups of two to five. The coffee menu covers espresso, a 200 ml filter and a larger filter to share, and a cold brew steeped for about 12 hours. Try the caffeinated lemonade, made with cold brew, Sicilian lemon, rosemary syrup and sparkling water, or the cuscuz with pot roast and plantain. Lunch runs Tuesday to Friday.

    Asa Norte QD 108 BLOCO, Bloco D Loja 58 e 66 - Asa Norte, Brasília - DF, 70744-540, Brazil

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