Cafes to sit in and roasters to buy beans from.
Finding you, to put the closest first…
Favorite Order:Cortado / Manual Brew
Small, laptop-friendly speciality bar and bakehouse at C-15 Acharya Niketan, Mayur Vihar Phase 1. Manual brews are what it is known for, and it runs coffee workshops.
Favorite Order:Not specified
European-style cafe at Shop 7, Defence Colony Market Block A — comfort food, speciality coffee and a reading-room feel, with seating that takes a laptop happily.
Favorite Order:Brown Sugar Latte / Eclipse Affogato
Family-run cafe at D-23/425, 100 Feet Road, Chhatarpur Hills — high ceilings and a loft, open Tuesday to Saturday noon to 7pm and Sunday 3pm to 9pm. Worth calling ahead, as it sometimes closes early.
Known for:Paz / Libre House Blend
Colombian brand's first Indian cafe, opened July 2025 in Greater Kailash II by Arushi Mehra and Miguel Villaquiran. Roasts in house and grinds retail bags to your brew method; house blends are Paz and Libre, with Geisha and Bourbon Sidra on the specials line.
Favorite Order:Nubo Special Shaken Cold Coffee
Real-food counter at A-15A, Block X, Hauz Khas — grain bowls, salads and smoothies with no refined sugar, coffee and matcha alongside. Opened January 2026 by four Delhi-NCR friends; 9am to 10.30pm.
Known for:Single Origin Filter
Independent small-batch roastery and cafe up on the third floor at E-17, Hauz Khas Market, open 8am to 11pm. Quiet enough to work in on a weekday.
Known for:Latte
Billed as The Latte Art Atelier and dedicated to the pour, at B-74A Sarvodaya Enclave. The brand's first outlet in South Delhi and tenth in India, from Nishant Sinha, who started Roastery Coffee House in Hyderabad in 2017. 8am to 11pm.
Known for:Single Origin Pourover / Bean-to-bar Chocolate
Chhatarpur live roastery and chocolate factory from SCA-certified roaster Baninder Singh and chocolatier Paweena Withyasathien Kochar — India's first bean-to-bar and bean-to-cup under one roof, with a newer retail-cafe in Gurgaon.
Favorite Order:House Blend Espresso
Coffee bar and cocktail room at G-8, Hauz Khas Market, rotating a different Indian coffee through each week. The house blend is 80/20 Arabica-Robusta from Moganad, Orchardale and Bison Valley; bean jars come with a gramophone-style aroma sniffer.
Favorite Order:Filter Coffee
All-day cafe and Parisian-style bakehouse at 3/48 Malcha Marg Market, Chanakyapuri, opened September 2022 by Manish Yadav. Delhi-NCR's exclusive outlet for Marc's fair-trade organic coffee from Auroville, chosen after a two-year search.
Favorite Order:Coffee Sangria
Khan Market original of Delhi's first wine-and-coffee bar, from Vaibhav Singh of PCO. Coffee programme built by Krittivas Dalmia of Kaffa Cerrado on single origins from Kenya, Uganda, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Indonesia; the coffee sangria was a city first.
Favorite Order:Butterscotch Latte / Tiramisu Croissant
The original ate, on Westend Marg in Saidulajab, Saket — garden seating, an all-women kitchen and the pick-up point for every cake the brand makes. Co-founded by Anukriti and Vicky; 10am to 10pm.
Known for:Filter Coffee / Monsooned Malabar
Lodhi Colony coffee and tea house going since 1962, and among the first in Delhi to sell speciality Indian lots — Monsooned Malabar, Mysore Nuggets Extra Bold and Robusta Kaapi Royale — now run as a father-and-son shop you can taste in before buying.