Asunción · Carmelitas & Mburucuyá
Cafés in Carmelitas & Mburucuyá
Office towers on Aviadores del Chaco, new specialty coffee and late nights toward Mburucuyá.
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This is the newer, eastern side of Asunción. Mburucuyá is named after Paraguay's national flower, the passionflower Passiflora caerulea; the barrio covers 1.19 km² between Avenida Primer Presidente, Julio Correa, Molas López and Itapúa, and is best known for the law faculty of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.1 Carmelitas has Paseo Carmelitas, a complex of restaurants and after-office bars with parking for 300 cars.2
The cafés run from the office strip on Aviadores del Chaco north to Julio Correa and Molas López. Typica Café, Matcha Mía! and La Galette Mburucuya all open at 07:30, while Helados Doña Angela serves until 23:00 and Cooltural stays open until 02:00 on Saturday.
Local tip: For coffee after dark on a Saturday, Cooltural on Manuel Riquelme stays open until 02:00; check its calendar first for concerts, stand-up and film nights.8
At a glance
22Cafés listed
6With opening hours
07:30Earliest opening
02:00Latest closing
- Opens earliest: Typica Café Paraguay, from 07:30 (Tue–Sun 07:30–21:00).
- Closes latest: Cooltural, until 02:00 (Mon–Fri 11:30–15:00, 17:00–23:45 · Sat 17:00–02:00).
- Most common features: outdoor seating (18%), wi-fi (9%), open late (9%).
Typica Café Paraguay
Urbano
- Outdoor seating
- Takeaway
- Indoor seating
- Vegetarian options
- Bakery café
- Brunch
Cooltural
- Smoke-free indoors
- Open late
Matcha Mía!
Almarreina
Alta Loma
Café Ficha
Café Kobs
DELICE de France
El Molinillo - Molas López
La Galette Mburucuya
LaPatiss
Pederzani Caffe Bistro Mercato
Seven Coffee
Variété Coffee and Shop
Bliss
Cacao Bean to Bar
Bahía Café
Nuestro Cafecito
Sabores Del Café
TR Cafe Cotidiano
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Coffee chains in Carmelitas & Mburucuyá
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Juan Valdez Café
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Havanna
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Café Martínez
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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
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Starbucks
- Carmelitas & MburucuyáDaily 08:00–22:00
Aviadores del Chaco and the office towers
By 2016, Avenida Aviadores del Chaco was being marketed as Asunción's new corporate and financial center, with office towers such as Skypark, whose second frontage opens onto Juan XXIII.3 Paseo La Galería, at Santa Teresa and Aviadores del Chaco, opened on 5 May 2016 with more than 140 shops, ahead of its two office towers.4
Urbano, one street over at Papa Juan XXIII 1713, opens 08:00–21:00 on weekdays and 09:00–21:00 at weekends, with brunch, vegan dishes and its own baked goods. Alta Loma is on Aviadores del Chaco itself; in 2021 it was one of the cafés selling Café Guarania, a Paraguayan coffee brand.5
Typica and the newer specialty cafés
Typica Café is the newest arrival. The Bolivian brand, with more than ten years in coffee and a branch in Florianópolis, set up in Asunción around December 2025; it buys high-altitude microlots directly from producers and grades them by cupping.6 It is at Agustín Pío Barrios 1333c and opens Tuesday to Sunday, 07:30–21:00.
Matcha Mía!, at Doctor Cirilo Cáceres Zorrilla 923, opens at 07:30 Tuesday to Friday and at 09:00 at weekends, and is closed on Monday. Bliss, at Raúl Heisecke Ferreira and Ramón Chávez, and LaPatiss, on Coronel Alcides Basualdo, are a few blocks north, and Cacao Bean to Bar is south at Coronel Félix Cabrera 1143.
Ice cream and crêpes around Julio Correa
Helados Doña Angela began as a dairy business. A 2013 profile said it had moved into ice cream about 15 years earlier, starting with soft-serve machines, and by then made 46 flavors and about 700 kg of ice cream a day, with a shop on Julio Correa among its branches.7 The Julio Correa shop is open daily 09:00–23:00 and has Wi-Fi and outdoor tables.
La Galette Mburucuya opens 07:30–21:00 Monday to Saturday. El Molinillo has a branch on Avenida Doctor Felipe Molas López, the avenue that forms Mburucuyá's southwestern edge.1
Cooltural and late nights near Molas López
Cooltural, at Profesor Manuel Riquelme 1907, a block from Avenida Molas López, opened in 2016 as a café-bar with a library and a book swap, and a calendar of stand-up, film nights, open mics, flamenco and jazz.8 It serves lunch 11:30–15:00 on weekdays and reopens 17:00–23:45; on Saturday it opens only in the evening, 17:00–02:00, and the room is smoke-free.
Sources
- Mburucuyá (Asunción), Wikipedia (Spanish), accessed October 2026
- Paseo Carmelitas: el lugar de las opciones de entretenimiento, InfoNegocios Paraguay (July 10, 2017), accessed October 2026
- Skypark se suma a las ofertas de oficinas corporativas sobre la avenida Aviadores, InfoNegocios Paraguay (February 22, 2016), accessed October 2026
- La espléndida inauguración del Paseo La Galería, La Nación (May 6, 2016), accessed October 2026
- Siete cafés que deberías probar al menos una vez en Asunción, InfoNegocios Paraguay (October 1, 2021), accessed October 2026
- De Bolivia a Asunción: Typica Café se filtra en la escena local con café de especialidad, InfoNegocios Paraguay (January 14, 2026), accessed October 2026
- Desafío helado, ABC Color (January 13, 2013), accessed October 2026
- Damos la bienvenida a Cooltural Café y Libros, InfoNegocios Paraguay (July 15, 2016), accessed October 2026
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FAQ
Carmelitas & Mburucuyá cafés: questions
Where can you get coffee near the Aviadores del Chaco office towers in Asunción?
Urbano, at Papa Juan XXIII 1713, one street from Aviadores del Chaco, opens 08:00–21:00 on weekdays and 09:00–21:00 at weekends and serves brunch. Alta Loma is on the avenue itself. Paseo La Galería, at Santa Teresa and Aviadores del Chaco, opened on 5 May 2016 with more than 140 shops and two office towers.
What is Typica Café in Carmelitas, Asunción?
Typica is a Bolivian specialty coffee brand with more than ten years in the business and a branch in Florianópolis. It set up in Asunción around December 2025, buys high-altitude microlots directly from producers and grades them by cupping. The café is at Agustín Pío Barrios 1333c and opens Tuesday to Sunday, 07:30–21:00.
Which cafés in Carmelitas and Mburucuyá, Asunción, stay open late?
Cooltural, a café-bar with a library on Profesor Manuel Riquelme, stays open until 23:45 on weekdays and until 02:00 on Saturday, with concerts, stand-up and film nights. Helados Doña Angela on Julio Correa serves until 23:00 every day. Urbano and La Galette Mburucuya close at 21:00.
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