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Best Cafés in Cartagena (2026)

Colombia grows some of the world's best-known coffee, and Cartagena is a good place to try it. Café San Alberto, from a multi-award-winning estate in Quindío, has its coffee shop on the Plaza de Santo Domingo and offers coffee experiences, while Libertario Coffee Roasters in Getsemaní serves single origins and blends roasted daily, with brunch dishes and cakes. Época, just off the Plaza de la Proclamación, sells its own blends alongside lunch dishes, and Érase un Café in San Diego prepares coffee using a range of filter methods in a carefully preserved interior.

For something different, Ábaco Libros y Café combines a well-stocked bookshop, including English-language titles, with a café in a colonial corner house, and Nía Bakery, led by a former Noma pastry chef, bakes breads and pastries with native Colombian fruits such as lulo and uchuva. Cafés are a good way to escape the midday heat between sights, and several open early for breakfast, so they suit the start of a day of sightseeing as well as an afternoon break.

6 places · Updated October 27, 2026

Our top 3 cafés in Cartagena

  1. Café San Alberto Specialty coffee shop, Ciudad AmuralladaThe Plaza Santo Domingo outpost of Café San Alberto, the multi-award-winning coffee estate from Buenavista in Quindío, serving its coffee and running tasting experiences.
  2. Ábaco Libros y Café Bookshop café, Ciudad AmuralladaA bookshop and café on a corner of a colonial house in the walled city, combining Colombian and Latin American literature with coffee, music and drinks.
  3. Nía Bakery Artisan bakery and coffee shop, Ciudad AmuralladaAn artisan bakery and social enterprise in the walled city led by Noma pastry chef Talia Richard, baking with native Colombian fruits and ingredients.

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1. Café San Alberto

Specialty coffee shop$$Ciudad Amurallada

The Plaza Santo Domingo outpost of Café San Alberto, the multi-award-winning coffee estate from Buenavista in Quindío, serving its coffee and running tasting experiences.

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3. Nía Bakery

Artisan bakery and coffee shop$$Ciudad Amurallada

An artisan bakery and social enterprise in the walled city led by Noma pastry chef Talia Richard, baking with native Colombian fruits and ingredients.

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5. Época

Specialty coffee and café-restaurant$$Ciudad Amurallada

A specialty coffee shop on Calle del Arzobispado, just off the Plaza de la Proclamación, serving espresso drinks, house blends and seafood and meat dishes.

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6. Érase un Café

Coffee shop and breakfast café$$San Diego

A coffee shop in a preserved colonial interior in San Diego, known for its range of filter coffees and breakfasts built on regional ingredients.

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