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No. 85 in the world · November 2026

Cafeoteca

Barrio Escalante · San José, Costa Rica

a pour-overNo. 85
A photo like it · Kim Sanso (CC0) (a pour-over, not from Cafeoteca) · source

The one cup to order

A tasting flight of Costa Rican coffees from different regions

When it's quiet: Weekday mornings.

No. 98 in the world for 2026: a San José bar that lets you taste the country's coffee regions side by side.

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A clean pour-over at home, the way the best filter bars do it

A clean pour-over at home, the way the best filter bars do it

6 min · 1 big cup (about 300 ml). The cup the Coffee 100's filter bars are built on: light-roasted beans, hot water poured by hand in stages, and a cup that tastes of fruit and the farm, not of roast.

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