Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia
Porto sits on the north bank of the Douro, and Vila Nova de Gaia, a separate municipality, on the south bank, joined to it by the Luís I bridge, among others. 7g Roaster is on the Gaia side; the other cafés below are in Porto.
In Barista Magazine’s December 2025 guide, Isabelle Mani names Combi, SO Coffee and 7g Roaster among the cafés that led Porto’s first wave of specialty coffee, and reports that Porto Coffee Week’s third edition, in October 2025, drew 3,606 visitors over its last three days.
7g Roaster, Vila Nova de Gaia
From 7g Roaster’s own site, checked October 18, 2026:
- Address: Rua de França 52, 4400-174 Vila Nova de Gaia.
- What it is: a specialty roaster, roasting in Vila Nova de Gaia; a café serving brunch all day, with indoor and outdoor seating and no reservations; and apartments in the same building, some with views over the Douro to Porto.
- Coffee tasting: a guided tasting of four drinks chosen by the baristas (a filter coffee, a cappuccino, an espresso and a decaf), taking about 45 minutes, to compare how the brewing method changes aroma, body, acidity and texture.
- Coffee for sale: seven coffees in its online shop that day: Colombia (El Indio, and a decaf of it), Ethiopia (Ayla Bombe), Honduras (El Negro), Kenya (Ndunduri AA and Lot 20) and Peru (Bernabe Padilla).
In a Portugal Chapter election biography published on October 27, 2021, the SCA described David Coelho as 7g Roaster’s head roaster, overseeing green-coffee sourcing, roasting and barista training, and as a three-time Portuguese barista champion. He represented Portugal at the World Barista Championship in Rimini in 2014 and, for 7g Roaster, in Seoul in 2017, where Barista Magazine’s competitor profile quoted him: “I am the roaster and head barista of 7g Roaster in Portugal!”
If you book the tasting, it pairs well with our guide to training your palate, which uses the same side-by-side approach at home.
Specialty roasters with cafés in Porto
Both of these roast their own coffee. Details are from their own sites, checked October 18, 2026:
- Combi Coffee Roasters lists two locations: the original Combi at Rua Morgado Mateus 29 (4000-334 Porto), open every day from 9:00 to 17:00, and the Combi Roastery at Rua Prof. Augusto Nobre 451 A (4150-119 Porto), open Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00 to 17:00. It roasts “here in Combi’s house” and sells coffees by region, from Brazil to Kenya.
- von&vonnie is a café and roastery started in September 2023 by Morgan von Mantripp and Yvonne Spresny, who describe it as a “project first coffee roastery” buying from smaller-scale producers. Its site gives its address as Rua do Heroísmo 10 (4300-031 Porto); Barista Magazine’s guide lists the café at Rua do Heroísmo 287, in the Bonfim neighborhood, so check the number before you set out.
Barista Magazine’s December 2025 guide has three more cafés, with addresses: 5 must-try cafés in Porto.
How to order coffee in Portugal
In a traditional café the menu is Portuguese, and the espresso has two regional names: a cimbalino in Porto and a bica in Lisbon, though um café works in both. James Cave’s Portugalist guide (updated August 2026) describes the common orders this way:
- Um café: an espresso, usually not filled to the top unless you ask for it cheio.
- Um café pingado: an espresso topped up with milk.
- Uma meia de leite: half milk and half coffee, the closest thing to a flat white or latte, though not an exact match.
- Um galão: a tall glass of warm milk with coffee in it, popular in the morning and late afternoon.
- Um abatanado: somewhere between an espresso and an americano (around Porto it may be called um americano), and often not much bigger than an espresso.
For Copenhagen and the roaster a World Barista Champion co-founded there, see Klaus Thomsen and Coffee Collective. For other cities, see our coffee cities guide.
Sources
- Isabelle Mani, “An Updated Guide to Porto, Portugal: 5 Must-Try Cafés in the City,” Barista Magazine Online, December 29, 2025 (the Tasteology survey, Porto Coffee Week, bica and cimbalino, the café picks and addresses): baristamagazine.com
- 7g Roaster, home page, “About us,” “Cafeteria” and “Contacts” pages (address, roasting, café, apartments, coffee tasting) and its coffee shop listing, checked October 18, 2026: roaster.7groaster.pt
- Specialty Coffee Association, “SCA Portugal Chapter: Election Results,” October 27, 2021 (David Coelho’s biography; publication year confirmed in the page’s structured metadata): sca.coffee
- “Barista Champion of Portugal,” Barista Magazine Online, June 6, 2014 (Coelho, ahead of the 2014 World Barista Championship in Rimini): baristamagazine.com
- “Meet the 2017 World Barista Championship Competitors, Part Three (Portugal–Vietnam),” Barista Magazine Online, November 8, 2017: baristamagazine.com
- “The 2017 World Barista Championship Finals,” Barista Magazine Online, November 12, 2017 (held in Seoul): baristamagazine.com
- Combi Coffee Roasters, home page (locations, hours, roasting), checked October 18, 2026: combi-coffee.com
- von&vonnie, “About us” and “Contact” (founders, founding date, address), checked October 18, 2026: vonandvonnie.com
- James Cave, “Coffee in Portugal: What to Order, What Not to Order, and Why It Matters,” Portugalist, updated August 4, 2026: portugalist.com