Budějovice is not just a beer town anymore! Good coffee smelled the South Bohemian metropolis and traditional and choice cafes started to appear like mushrooms after the rain. If you're looking for a traditional Italian espresso, a stylish café, an interesting coffee place, or if you're tuned in to the wave of choice coffee, you've come to the right place in Budějovice. We've picked out the establishments that are worth a visit. In addition to cafes, you'll also find coffee roasters, and the local baristas are pros who won't get lost on the international stage.
Budějovice Coffee Trail
Based on customer reviews, your tips and personal experience, we have selected cafes in České Budějovice that are worth a trip. You will find traditional and specialty coffee, something good to eat - salty or sweet, they offer interesting interior, cozy atmosphere or are located in interesting places. The list includes cafés, espresso bars, but also roasters. You can find them in this map. So discover, taste and share your fragrant experiences!
Discover cafes - taste coffee - get rewarded
Do you go to Budejovice or do you live in the city? Do you like coffee? Great, this game is just for you! We wanted to motivate you to discover the cafes in the city, so we prepared the Budějovice Coffee Trail. We have created a list of participating cafés, a playing card and a fragrant reward for those who visit 10 cafés and collect stamps for consumption.
Pick up your playing card at the Tourist Information Centre at the Town Hall in České Budějovice (Nám. 1/1) and go to selected cafés. At each café visited from our list you will get one stamp for your playing card if you have at least one coffee drink. For 10 stamps collected, you will receive a reward in the form of a package of selected coffee. You can pick up your reward again at the Tourist Information Centre at the Town Hall in České Budějovice.
The promotion starts on 23 September. 2024 and is limited to 100 rewards.
1 cafe + at least 1 coffee = maximum 1 stamp in the playing card => 10 stamps = reward.
From Monday 23 September to 1 October 2024, Budweiser Coffee Week takes place, full of themed coffee programmes, workshops with local baristas, cuppings of selected coffee and other coffee-related events. For example, the 10th birthday celebration of Budweis' very first coffee shop, Café Datel, will also be part of the coffee week. This event brings together the local coffee community, introduces local enthusiasts passionate about coffee and its preparation and gives visitors to Budějovice and local residents the opportunity to get a glimpse into this fascinating and fragrant world, to taste top-quality selection coffee, meet professionals and gain experience and know-how from them.
17:00 - 18:00 COWORKING VŠTE, Kněžská 5, room 2C - capacity 15 people - book via form HERE
Lecture for those who want to learn the complete basics about coffee. How and where coffee is grown, how it's processed, the difference between commodity and specialty coffee, and many other things you wanted to know about coffee but were afraid to ask. Now you can. Vojen Smíšek is the marketing manager of the Budějovicko Tourist Area, but besides that, he and his girlfriend have been running the espresso bar Shots & Sparks in Lipno nad Vltavou for the past four years.
Tuesday, September 24. Tastes and aromas of coffee - workshop with Zbyněk Vojtěšek
17:00 - 20:00 Žižkárna - capacity 15 people - CLOSED
The sensory workshop focused on tastes and aromas of coffee will be led by barista and owner of the espresso bar QB box in České Budějovice Zbyněk Vojtěšek. Zbyněk is the winner of this year's Czech Cup Tasters Championship 2024 and a representative at the World Cup Tasters Championship finals in Chicago, USA.
The workshop will have 3 parts 1. cupping - coffee tasting 2. Triangulation - differentiating between the same and different coffees by tasting and discarding from a trio of bowls 3. concentration of basic flavours - from each basic flavour 4 different concentrations - ranking samples from highest to lowest concentration.
Workshop focused on the preparation of filter coffee in the iconic AeroPress coffee machine will be led by young gun of the coffee scene Lukáš Faber known as Coffee Dealer.
Lukáš is a finalist of the Czech Aeropress Championship 2022, where he placed 3rd, and also the owner of Coffee Dealer, a café in Písek that focuses on filtered coffee prepared by hand, the so-called hand brew coffee. During the workshop, he will show you the steps of preparation in the AeroPress, the differences compared to other preparation methods and also why this coffee machine is so popular. You will learn how to brew coffee in field conditions with the AeroPress and how to "shoot it into space" at the same time! As the icing on the cake, Lukáš will share his favourite competition recipe that got him to the final of the Czech Aeropress Championship.
Thursday 26. Preparation of coffee filter V60 - workshop with Honza Ašenbryl
Workshop focused on the preparation of filter coffee in Hario V60 filter will be led by barista and owner of the espresso bar Plachý Café in České Budějovice Honza Ašenbryl.
During the workshop, Honza will take you through the process of preparing coffee on the popular V60 dripper in individual steps and explain how each stage affects the final cup of coffee. You will have the opportunity to take a look under the hood of the legendary Budějovice espresso bar and take away some of the know-how.
Friday 27 September Tenth birthday of Café Datel
Café Datel, Piaristická 8 - programme of the event to be announced soon
Café Datel is the first ever Czech-Budějovice café of the so-called 3rd coffee wave. 10 years ago, it brought a selection of coffee to the city and showed Budějovecers what the coffee world smells like at the highest level, and also a bit of what was happening in Brno (yes, Brno) at the time. People started coming to Datla for espresso and filter, for a drink and a beer, and also for cool cakes. People started talking about Datl a lot, Datl became a phenomenon and 10 years later it still is, even though there are many other great cafes in the city. Around the corner from the square, a cafe by day, a bar by night, a meeting place both planned and casual. You can't miss Datla when you walk by. So come celebrate the anniversary!
5km morning run from Quality Fitness with a finish at Café Kapučo, where everyone can enjoy a well-deserved breakfast and tune up for the weekend. The event includes 1 free coffee and, if more than 10 people participate, a draw for vouchers to Kvalita fitness. Those interested in attending should confirm their participation at the link HERE. On registration, participants will be entered into a group chat where we will keep them updated.
Program: 8:00 AM Meet in front of Quality Fitness - transition to Hoch Spalíček 8:05 AM Quick warm-up (5 minutes) 8:10- 8:50 AM Easy pace run (6:50- 7:00 min/km) 9:00 - 9:20 Morning coffee at Kapůč 9:20 Closing and friendly farewell
Monday 30. 9. Coffee Mixology - lecture and workshop with Honza Lukas
Honza Lukas is a two-time finalist in the Czech Coffee in Good Spirits Championship, a competition that combines the art of making fine coffee with the art of mixology. Honza has placed bronze and silver in 2022 and 2023. Outside of competing, he is the head bartender at Café Datel in Budějovice. His talk will focus on coffee mixology, combining the flavours of drinks with coffee and learn about the history of where coffee met alcohol. During the course, you will also sample several classic drinks that are an integral part of the fusion of these two worlds.
Cupping is a coffee tasting in which the sensory and quality characteristics of coffee samples are determined. It is carried out, for example, on farms for the evaluation and pricing of coffee, but also in roasters to check the quality of individual bags of roasted coffee. Try this procedure and taste coffee from Kmen Coffee Roasters, the first roastery in České Budějovice to offer a selection of coffee.
Coffee events that go beyond
(but you shouldn't miss them!)
Wednesday 11.9. Zero Waste Latte Art Throwdown Kmen
17:00 - 22:00 Kmen Coffee Roasters, Lannova tr. 97/57
16 contestants will compete in a milk foam coffee drawing. Drawing will be done with Oatly plant milk. And why Zero Waste? Because the coffee that is made turns into coffee drinks. It'll be fun, there will be Pizza Paranormale, DJ Ramel will spin records and there will be beer from the Obora.
Thursday, Sept. 12 Cupping and discussion with farmer Anna Rodriguez
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Trunk Coffee Roasters, Lannova Tr. 97/57
Farmer Anna "Ancha" Gloria Rodriguez will be coming from Colombia to the Tribe, working with her coffee in the roastery and at the bar. The event will consist of two parts - cupping Ancha's coffees and a discussion/presentation about farming in Colombia. Anna will focus on women farmers. Capacity is limited.
This project is realized with the financial support of the Statutory City of České Budějovice.
