Specialty coffee in Mérida

Roasters in Santiago and Santa Ana

Manifesto, at Calle 59 #538 in Barrio de Santiago, describes itself as a family roasting house that roasts specialty coffee by hand in Mérida and wants fair pay for growers and an honest price for drinkers.⁴ Its posted rules include grinding just before brewing, drinking good coffee without sugar and never reheating it.⁴

Tierra de Café, on Calle 62 between 45 and 47, buys from a cooperative of about 50 families in the El Triunfo biosphere reserve in Chiapas, with farms at 1,450 to 1,900 m.⁵ The roaster was born in Chiapas and opened its first Mérida café in 2017.²

Cosmo, at Calle 66 #497B between 59 and 61, pairs specialty coffee, pour-over and cold brew with a seasonal all-day brunch menu.⁶

Itzimná and Colonia México

Itzimná and Colonia México have the most specialty cafés in Mérida, followed by Prolongación Montejo and the north and by Santa Ana and Santiago in the old center.

Manifesto Barra Cold Brew, the roaster's second bar, is at Calle 18 #107 between 27 and 29 in Colonia México, with outdoor seating.⁴² Lila Café Especial is on Calle 21 between 24 and 24A, Arista Barista Norte at Avenida José Díaz Bolio 121, and Mapaches Café Especial Casa Tostadora, a roasting house, at Circuito Colonias 382.

The north, García Ginerés and the southern center

On Prolongación Montejo, Amadeo Café at No. 306 is an Argentine café with specialty coffee, yerba mate and house-made dulce de leche; its favorite drink is a dulce de leche latte.⁷ It opens Monday to Friday 08:00–17:00. Café Origen Tostadores is at No. 250, and Ictze Coffee Roasters is on Avenida Andrés García Lavín between Calles 43 and 45.

Coffee Brew Lab SCR, at Calle 36 #153, calls itself a roasting house and laboratory of specialty coffee, grinds beans just before each drink and sells them in 250 g and 500 g bags.⁸ In the southern center, Origen Tostadores de Café at Calle 77 #528 serves Monday to Friday 08:00–17:00, and in Altabrisa, Vandola Café de Especialidad is at Calle 37A #335.

What to order and what it costs

Across Mexico in 2026, a specialty espresso cost MX$45–65, the filter coffee of the day MX$40–50 and a cold brew MX$60–90.³ A 250 g bag of specialty beans ran MX$180–280, about 14 to 16 cups' worth, against MX$30–50 for a single americano at a neighborhood café.³

Some bars leave the sweetening to you. Coffee Brew Lab SCR serves its drinks unsweetened and offers cane sugar, or stevia with monk fruit, on the side.⁸