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No. 68 in the world · November 2026

Truth Coffee

Buitenkant Street, City Bowl · Cape Town, South Africa

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The one cup to order

An espresso or a flat white in the steampunk roastery, with an egg breakfast

When it's quiet: Weekday mid-morning.

Cape Town's steampunk roastery: an old printworks fitted with a giant vintage roaster.

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Make it at home

Espresso at home: the Roman shot, dialled in by weight

Espresso at home: the Roman shot, dialled in by weight

10 min including warm-up · 1 double shot. The shot every Roman and Neapolitan bar on the chart lives by. A home machine can pull a very good one once you measure what goes in and what comes out.

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