Senegal
Cafés in Dakar Djar, cloves and a ladle
Café Touba poured at street kiosks, millet cake at Kéliba in Hann Maristes, and coffee beside Place de l'Indépendance in the Plateau.
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Dakar's best-known coffee is sold on the street. Café Touba, robusta roasted with djar (grains of Selim) and cloves, is sold at tangana kiosks, plywood counters set up all over the capital, and in 2026 a paper cup cost 100 CFA francs.1 Vendors buy beans in bulk, mostly from Côte d'Ivoire, and the only branding on a stand is usually a photo of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, founder of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood.1
Sit-down cafés serve it too. Kéliba Café, near the Total station in Hann Maristes, pours a spiced, fair-trade café Touba and bakes cakes and tarts with millet or cassava flour.2 Its 2024 drinks menu priced a small café Touba at 1,000 CFA francs, the same as a small espresso.3 Nearby, close to Parc de Hann, the business once called curiositea changed hands in 2025 and now trades as Cadence Coffee.4
In the Mamelles, a district named after two volcanic hills between Ouakam and the Almadies, coffee comes with art. Loman Art House, a contemporary art gallery, keeps its café in the inner garden;5 the house is the idea of Loman Pawlitschek.6 Ban Café belongs to Ban Workshop, a pottery studio whose name is the Wolof word for clay,7 and serves brunch on Sundays only.8
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Before you sit down
How coffee works in Dakar
At a tangana, ask for café Touba and watch the pour: the vendor tips the coffee between cup and ladle, lifting it higher each time.1 Sugar is on the counter. In 2022 Le360 Afrique reported a cup at 50 CFA francs, with Ivorian beans ground at the Keur Massar market and spiced with poivre de Guinée (another name for djar).9
After a meal, the drink offered to friends and visitors is more often ataya, Chinese green tea boiled with sugar, and sometimes mint, over a charcoal stove.10 It comes in three rounds brewed from the same leaves, each sweeter and less bitter than the one before, and is poured back and forth between glass and pot until it foams; thicker foam counts as better.10
Café menus run on espresso. At Kéliba Café in 2024 a small cappuccino or café latte cost 1,500 CFA francs and a large one 2,000, and café Touba also came as a latte or over ice.3 Ban Café's current menu charges 1,500 CFA francs for a Nespresso or Americano and 2,000 for a latte.11
Prices are in West African CFA francs, pegged to the euro at 655.957 francs since 1999 and shared with seven other countries.12 Wave, a mobile-money app launched in Senegal in 2018, charges a flat 1% on transfers with free deposits and withdrawals, and pushed Orange Money to cut its rates.13 Dakar taxis almost never have meters, so agree the fare first; in 2022 the BCEAO put a taxi between the airport and the city at 25,000 CFA francs.14
What coffee costs in Dakar
| Drink | Typical price |
|---|---|
| Café Touba Street cup from a tangana kiosk | 100 CFA Street kiosks, 2026 |
| Café Touba Small / large, in a café | 1,000–1,500 CFA Kéliba Café, Hann Maristes, 2024 |
| Espresso Small / large | 1,000–2,000 CFA Kéliba Café, Hann Maristes, 2024 |
| Café latte With milk | 1,500–2,000 CFA Kéliba Café (2024), Ban Café (2026) |
| Cake au mil Slice of millet-flour cake | 1,000 CFA Kéliba Café, Hann Maristes, 2024 |
Street price as of April 2026, from New Lines Magazine; café prices from Kéliba Café's drinks menu (April 2024) and Ban Café's online menu, read in October 2026.1311
Sources
- How a Sufi Saint's Coffee Recipe Took Senegal by Storm, New Lines Magazine (Ryan Biller, April 24, 2026), accessed October 2026
- Kéliba Café, Kéliba Café (official site), accessed October 2026
- Menu boissons, Kéliba Café (drinks menu, April 2024), accessed October 2026
- curiositea is now Cadence Coffee, Cadence Coffee (former curiositea site), accessed October 2026
- Les bonnes adresses du quartier des Mamelles à Dakar, Le Petit Journal Dakar (Gaëlle Picut, January 30, 2019, updated November 23, 2023), accessed October 2026
- Loman Art House, Loman Art (official site), accessed October 2026
- Ban Workshop, un projet de centre de poterie à Dakar, Au Sénégal (November 21, 2019), accessed October 2026
- Le café, Ban Workshop (official site), accessed October 2026
- Sénégal: le café Touba, une source de revenus pour de nombreux jeunes, Le360 Afrique (Moustapha Cissé, September 22, 2022), accessed October 2026
- Senegalese tea culture, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- Ban Café menu (English), Ban Café (online menu, read October 2026), accessed October 2026
- West African CFA franc, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- How Wave is using Amazon's playbook to crush the competition in the mobile money market in Senegal, Rest of World (Nick Roll, September 7, 2022), accessed October 2026
- Informations pratiques pour un séjour à Dakar, BCEAO (leaflet, November 2022), accessed October 2026
- Dakar, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
FAQ
Cafés in Dakar: common questions
How much does a coffee cost in Dakar?
In 2026 a cup of café Touba from a street kiosk cost about 100 CFA francs. In cafés, Kéliba Café's 2024 menu listed a small café Touba or espresso at 1,000 CFA francs and a small cappuccino at 1,500, and Ban Café charges 1,500 for a Nespresso or Americano and 2,000 for a latte.
Which neighborhood of Dakar has the most cafés?
Plateau and Almadies & Ngor have the most cafés, followed by Ouakam & Mamelles. In the Plateau they sit around Place de l'Indépendance, Rue Joseph Gomis and Rue Bérenger Ferraud; in the Almadies, near Rue NG 90.
What is café Touba in Dakar?
Café Touba is robusta roasted with djar (grains of Selim) and cloves, poured between cup and ladle at tangana kiosks across Dakar for about 100 CFA francs a cup in 2026. Kéliba Café in Hann Maristes serves a spiced, fair-trade version, also as a latte or iced.
What is ataya, the tea served in Dakar?
Ataya is Chinese green tea boiled with sugar, and sometimes mint, over a charcoal stove and served in three rounds from the same leaves, each sweeter than the last. It is poured between glass and pot until it foams, and it is the drink usually offered to friends and visitors after a meal.
How do you pay for coffee and taxis in Dakar?
Prices are in West African CFA francs, pegged to the euro at 655.957. Mobile money is common, and Wave charges a flat 1% on transfers. Taxis rarely have meters, so agree the fare before you get in; an airport taxi into the city cost 25,000 CFA francs in 2022.
Which cafés in Dakar are in art spaces?
Two are in the Mamelles: the café in the inner garden of Loman Art House, a contemporary art gallery, and Ban Café, run by the Ban Workshop pottery studio, which serves brunch on Sundays only.
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