Café Monteverde Coffee Center
Local shop · Monteverde
A cozy coffee bar and shop serving beans from small Monteverde farms, with a giant mosaic coffee-cup sculpture right next to it. The place to taste local coffee without booking a tour.
- Cost
- Free
- Time there
- 30 min
- Best time
- morning
- Kids
- 6 / 10
- View
- 3 / 10
- Crowds
- 4 / 10
- Swimming
- 0 / 10
- Effort
- 0 / 10
- Location
- 10.30668, -84.81208 — Google Maps
Tip
It opens at 7 a.m., a good warm-up stop before heading to the reserves.
Be careful
Carry small bills in colones; keep an eye on bags and phones in busy areas.
Places nearby
- Restaurante La Cuchara de la Abuela (CASEM)Food & CoffeeCooperative-run kitchen at CASEM, the women's craft co-op, serving typical plates and handmade corn tortillas.
- Stella's Monteverde Bakery & CaféFood & CoffeeBakery opened in 1992 by English-born Stella Wallace, now a breakfast and lunch café across from the CASEM crafts co-op, using local cheeses and house bread.
- The Bat JungleParks & WildlifeIndoor bat exhibit designed by bat biologist Dr.
- El Establo Mountain HotelStays · from $253Mountain hotel in Monteverde with its own 65-hectare cloud forest reserve.
- Pizzería e Ristorante TramontiFood & CoffeeFamily-run Italian restaurant since 1993 (founded by an Italian and Costa Rican couple), with a wood-fired oven, house-made ravioli and lasagna and a glass-and-timber dining room above the valley.
- Hotel Fonda VelaStaysHillside cloud-forest hotel near the Monteverde reserve.
Sources: OpenStreetMap way/1040066888 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1040066888 · https://www.cafedemonteverde.com/