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Cape Town, the “Mother City,” is a tiny dot at the bottom of the paunchy African continentย that has remainedย on the bucket lists of travelers in recent times. The weather is mostly perfect, the people are chiefly gorgeous, and the natural beauty can stagger even the coldest of hearts.

What used to be a sort of summer playground has become a real alternative recreation spot,ย where the living is easy but the fare is excellent. For all these reasons the city is ripe for caffeinating. And in a short 10 years Cape Town’s coffee sceneย has evolved from just one specialty haunt to dozens roasting and/or serving. Here are some of myย favorites, old and new:

Dapper Coffee Company

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Proudly residing withinย an investment-car showroom, Dapper Coffee Company brings some sexiness to the cityโ€™s coffee scene. A shiny white vintage-’80s Porsche 911 and a rouge-kissed Ferrari to behold whilst holding a flat white isnโ€™t a bad way to start a morning. Breakfasts are aย specialty here with eggs and the works, and they naturally come with a coffee of your choice.

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Dapper Coffee Company is located atย 73 Strand Street. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Yours Trulyrosetta yours truly dapper tribe coffee company deluxe coffeeworks origin roasters cape town south africa cafe sprudge

At the helm of this small empire of coffee shops is Daniel Holland, your typical smiling, bike-riding Cape Townian. Starting with a small coffee cart in 2010, Holland has grown to four stores dotting the central business district. Yours Truly has a sloganโ€”โ€œsame time tomorrowโ€โ€”and it thusly pulls hipsters and fellow out-of-the-fray locals to stand around drinking cortados and straight-up espressos. Their latest initiative is to donate 1 randย (donโ€™t even do a conversion to US dollars) forย every cup sold to the Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unitโ€”an all-women anti-rhino poaching organization. (!)

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Yours Truly has multiple locations; visit their official website and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Tribe Coffeeย 

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Behindย the motto โ€œluxury coffee for everyone,โ€ Tribe Coffee has aimed to offer well-executed and freshly roasted beans to a city coming out of an Illy coma. Besides itsย two venuesโ€”one in the Woodstock design area of the city, the other inside aย BMW motorcycle storeโ€”the brand also supplies smaller cafes, grocery stores, and hotels all over town. Tribe’sย co-founder, Jake Easton, is originally from the United States, and settled in Cape Town with aย big heart and worthy opinions about life. He’s known to say things like: โ€œOur taste buds are all the same. Not a โ€˜some pigs are betterโ€™ Orwellian dystopia, but parity. Taste, in a coffee, is the equalizer.โ€

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Findย Tribe Coffee’sย locations at theirย official website and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Deluxe Coffeeworks

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The bad boys of the cityโ€™s coffee culture,ย Deluxe Coffeeworksย is helmed byย Judd Francis, a Kiwi, and Carl Wessel, a Saffa (a local). Here there are fast bikes (on the floors and on the walls), beautiful people, plenty of sexy espresso, and much fun-fueled late nights. Their machines are state of the art and (of course) customized, and the coffee served comes with a side of luscious good attitude.

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Deluxeย Coffeeworks has four Cape Townย locations (and a few elsewhere too).ย Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook.

Rosetta Roastery

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One may say that owners Jono Le Feuvre and Robert Cowles are the literati of the coffee business down south. They question every bean and ponder sustainability and the beauty of flavor notes. Every bag comes with a fableย on the back using flavor notes to ramble stream-of-consciously about something ordinary in its sheer simple beauty. With plans to expand into something more (the roastery has a coffee bar, but of course, these deep thinkers wonโ€™t just open yet another coffee store), this is the most interesting outfitย to watch.

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Rosetta Roastery is located atย 66 Albert Road. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Origin Coffee Roasting

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This is where it all started. Thanks to Origin founder Joel Singer (a sort of Canadian import), the coffee scene in Cape Town first took hold, and everyone started to appreciate flat whites, single-origin beans, and the artisanal craft of creating a truly superb cup of coffee. Today, more thanย 10 years later, the shop is as full as ever,ย and serves the best New York bagels on the continent. Ask anyone in the greaterย Cape Town area about coffee and this is where they will send you immediately.

Origin Coffee Roasting is located at 28 Hudson Street. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Daniel Schefflerย is an international freelance journalist whose work has appeared inย Tย Magazine,ย Travel And Leisure,ย Monocle,ย Playboy,ย New York Magazine,ย The New York Times, andย Butt. Read more Daniel Scheffler on Sprudge.

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