Question Coffee Gishushu

Café · Specialty coffee café$$Gishushu, Kigali

A specialty coffee café in Gishushu serving Rwandan coffee and running master classes and day trips to coffee cooperatives.

At a glance

Type: Specialty coffee café
Area: Gishushu, Kigali, Rwanda
Price: $$ · Mid-range
Opening: Open daily
Official site: questioncoffee.com

Good to know

Specialty coffee
Coffee master classes
Takeaway
Coffee to buy

Why we recommend it

Question Coffee's café in Gishushu is one of the best places in Kigali to understand why Rwandan coffee has such a strong reputation. The company describes it as a state-of-the-art specialty café, and it sells its own coffee, which it says is handled by professionals at every step from farm to cup. You can drink in or take your coffee to go, and bags of beans are available to buy.

For coffee lovers the café is more than a place for a cappuccino. Question Coffee runs a Specialty Coffee Master Class at the café, an immersive session on the coffee supply chain that you can do without leaving the city. It also organises cooperative tours, day trips into Rwanda's coffee-growing areas to meet farmers and follow the process from their plots to the washing station and drying tables. Heaven Rwanda includes a crop-to-cup visit to Question Coffee among the experiences it arranges for guests.

The café keeps long hours for Kigali: 7am to 6pm on weekdays and 8am to 5pm at weekends, which makes it useful for an early start before a museum visit or a morning meeting. It is a good place to work for an hour or to meet friends, and the staff are used to visitors who want to know where each coffee comes from and how it was processed.

If you want to take coffee home, this is a reliable place to buy freshly roasted Rwandan beans. Ask about master class times in advance, as sessions are scheduled rather than offered on demand, and book cooperative tours a few days ahead because they involve a full day of travel outside Kigali.

Rwanda's coffee is mostly grown by smallholder farmers and processed at washing stations around the country, so a cup here is a good introduction before you see the hillsides for yourself on the way to the national parks.

Gishushu is close to Kimihurura and the Kigali Convention Centre, between the city centre and the airport road, so the café is easy to combine with a visit to the Campaign Against Genocide Museum in the parliament grounds or with lunch in one of the nearby restaurants. Taxis and motorcycle taxis can reach it quickly from most parts of the city, and the address on KG 8 Avenue is straightforward for drivers to find.