Hidden Gem · 26
- 4 Elementos Café Artesanal Bogotá / Colombian coffee regions, Colombia
4 Elementos is a small coffee finca in Minca, in the mountains above Santa Marta, growing organic single-origin coffee. Visitors can take farm tours and join tastings and roasting on site. store page → · open in the atlas → - Artesanias Canaan (Artesanias de Raquira) Raquira, Boyaca
Artesanias Canaan sells crafts made by the artisans of Raquira, spanning ceramics, wood, textiles, natural fibres, glass and accessories. It runs both a physical storefront in Raquira and an online shop with a browsable catalogue. store page → · open in the atlas → - Artesanías de Colombia Carrera 5 # 34-49, Local 2, Calle del Arzobispado, Centro Histórico, Cartagena / Online
Artesanías de Colombia’s Centro Histórico shop in Cartagena sells Colombian artisan textiles, home objects, jewelry and craft. Its current official address is Carrera 5 # 34-49, Local 2, on Calle del Arzobispado. store page → · open in the atlas → - Café Don Rafa Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia
Café Don Rafa sells washed and honey-process coffee from its own Jericó finca, fermenting or drying each lot differently to shape acidity and sweetness. Guided tours and pairings in Medellín trace the beans back to the farm. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cano Jewelry Walled City / Online
Cano Jewelry is a Cartagena house for pre-Colombian inspired jewellery — ornate gold chokers, Amazonian hoop earrings. Founded in 1970; Made in Colombia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Caribe Jewelry Cartagena
Caribe Jewelry designs Colombian emerald pieces, setting the mined stones into gold rings, necklaces, and earrings sold direct. Its range centers on the deep-green emeralds that made the Colombian trade famous. store page → · open in the atlas → - Chocolate Andino Bogotá
Chocolate Andino has made table chocolate, bars and cocoa nibs from Colombian cacao since 1931, working from the same Carrera 21 workshop in Bogotá. It sells its chocolate and roasted coffee direct to the city and by delivery across Colombia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Discrepante Zona Rosa / Candelaria / Chapinero Alto / Online
Discrepante is a Bogotá concept store and marketplace for Colombian independent design, linking conscious shoppers with roughly 100 local entrepreneurs and brands. Across its physical stores and online shop, the mix runs from fashion and jewelry to stationery, craft, home objects and gifts. store page → · open in the atlas → - Guanabana Bogotá / Online
Madrid-designed accessories label founded in 2005 by Almudena Espinosa; bags are hand-crocheted in Colombia by Wayuu artisans among a network of more than 1,200 artisans across Spain and Colombia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Isidora Malva Bogotá
This label handmakes luxury handbags, totes and baskets from leather and natural fibres in its own Bogotá workshop. Its work centres on preserving artisanal leather traditions and fair trade in contemporary bag shapes. store page → · open in the atlas → - Libertario Coffee Roasters Bogotá
Libertario Coffee Roasters sources Colombian beans through a stated regenerative-agriculture approach, selling single-origin and blended coffees. Its Paz blend anchors three coffee shops across Bogotá, Cartagena and Medellín. store page → · open in the atlas → - Librería Nacional Cali / Bogotá / Online
From Cali since 1941, Librería Nacional grew into Colombia's great bookstore family — shelves, cafés and author nights across the country's cities. store page → · open in the atlas → - Loto del Sur Usaquén / Online
Loto del Sur is a Bogotá house for natural botanical soaps, creams, scents with Colombian-inspired packaging. Founded in 1999; Made in Colombia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Lucy Jewelry Cartagena
Lucy Jewelry has worked Colombian emeralds for more than forty years, setting the country's signature green stones into gold rings, necklaces, and earrings. The house handles certified emeralds alongside classic and contemporary designs. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mercedes Salazar Walled City / Online
Mercedes Salazar is a Cartagena house for fun jewellery and small accessories such as bags. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mister Emerald Cartagena
Mister Emerald deals in certified Colombian emeralds, offering loose stones and finished rings, earrings, and pendants from its Cartagena showroom. The shop walks buyers through grading and origin for the country's signature gem. store page → · open in the atlas → - Panadería Barichara Barichara, Santander
Panaderia Barichara has baked in the Santander town of Barichara since 1954, known locally for its Palitroques, cheese and coffee crackers, and tongue-shaped Lenguas cookies. Seventy years on, it still ships its snacks and tostadas nationwide. store page → · open in the atlas → - SAGA Marroquinera Alquería de la Fragua, Bogotá
A Bogotá leather workshop that manufactures belts, small leather goods, home and office accessories and pet collars on its own machinery. Everything is made in-house at its Alquería de la Fragua factory in the south of the city. store page → · open in the atlas → - Silvia Tcherassi Carrera 3 N 31-11, next to Plaza Santa Teresa (walled city), Cartagena
Silvia Tcherassi is a Colombian couturier whose Cartagena boutique sits beside Plaza Santa Teresa in the walled city, showing her resort and eveningwear. The house has operated in the city for more than two decades and later expanded into the adjacent Tcherassi Hotel. store page → · open in the atlas → - ST.DOM Bogotá Zona T / Online
Founded in 2014 by Alex Srour and Maya Memovic, ST.DOM is a Colombian concept store built around fashion, design, art and culture. Its Bogotá and Cartagena spaces showcase more than 100 Colombian designers alongside jewelry, accessories, contemporary art and Latin American books. store page → · open in the atlas → - Taller de Papel de Barichara (Fundación San Lorenzo) Barichara, Santander
Run by the Fundación San Lorenzo, this Barichara workshop makes paper by hand from fique and natural fibres. It is an emblematic artisan institution in the town. store page → · open in the atlas → - Todo Raquira Raquira, Boyaca
Todo Raquira is a Raquira ceramics business making handcrafted planters, decorative and columned pieces. It sells online and from its factory at Carrera 5 #3a-05 in Raquira, Boyaca. store page → · open in the atlas → - Upala Joyas Cali
Upala hand-forges jewellery in Cali from copper and silver, with its Terra collection drawn from the forms of valleys, peaks, and volcanoes. The family workshop, certified by Colombia's national mining agency, works to a small-batch method built on three decades of jewellery-making. store page → · open in the atlas → - VERDI Bogotá
A Colombian textile studio in Bogotá producing handwoven rugs, throws and home pieces in wool and natural fibres. Its designs are woven by Colombian artisans and carried by international design showrooms as well as its own studio. store page → · open in the atlas → - Wilborada1047 Chapinero, Bogotá
An independent bookshop-café spread over three floors of a heritage English-style house on Calle 71, stocking Colombian, Latin American and international literature plus graphic novels and art titles. It runs a reading club, book exchange and workshops alongside its 300-square-metre bookshop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ábaco Libros y Café Calle de la Iglesia / Online
Ábaco Libros y Café has occupied a corner of Cartagena’s walled city since May 2002, combining a general bookstore with coffee, wine and light food. It also functions as a cultural meeting place for readings, book launches, discussion groups and events tied to the city’s major festivals. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 1
- Finca Cafetera Margus Jardín, Antioquia, Colombia
Martha and Gustavo run this fifth-generation coffee farm outside Jardín, taking guests through a three-hour walk from picking to roasting and a tasting. The farm sells its own Arabica direct from the property, with overnight cabins including a private-jacuzzi option. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 21
- Artinek Villa De Leyva / Colombia
Artinek is Inés and Erika's ceramics workshop in Villa de Leyva, hand-molding, firing, and painting clay into utilitarian pieces, cup holders, and souvenirs that reflect the town's local identity. Custom and corporate orders can be arranged by phone from the studio on Carrera 10. store page → · open in the atlas → - Café Cielo Tostado Medellín / Colombia
Before Café Cielo Tostado existed as a brand, its founders spent sixteen years farming coffee — the roastery in Medellín grew out of that hands-on experience rather than the other way around. store page → · open in the atlas → - Café de mi finca Jardín, Antioquia, Colombia
This direct-from-producer brand sells Caturra, Castillo and honey-process coffee grown around Jardín, with manually selected ripe cherries and no intermediary between grower and buyer. Orders ship across Colombia by request through WhatsApp and its online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Café Velvet Medellin / Colombia / Online
Founder Ilse Geyskens launched Velvet in 2013 to import, roast and sell direct-trade Colombian coffee from her own Itagüí and Jodoigne roasteries. Her husband joined as master roaster in 2022, completing a Belgian-Colombian farm-to-cup model. store page → · open in the atlas → - Color Cacao Medellin / Colombia / Online
Founded in Medellín in 2011, Color Cacao is a bean-to-bar maker turning single-origin Colombian cacao into fine artisan chocolate bars, bonbons and corporate gifts. Its chocolates are sold through the online shop and a distributor network. store page → · open in the atlas → - Estanco Caquetá Express Central Florencia
Founded on 13 April 1982, this family-run estanco has spent more than four decades selling Colombian liquors, beers and sweets across four locations in central Florencia. Behind the counters at El Estanco, La Bombonera, La Sucursal and La Mayorista, the Caqueteño family stocks the regional and national brands their neighbours grew up with. store page → · open in the atlas → - Finca Sagrado Vereda La Traviesa, Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia
Finca Sagrado grows organic coffee on a working farm outside Jericó, using permaculture to fold the plantation into forest rather than clearing it. It also offers cacao tours, ceramics and short stays — though it deliberately avoids Google Maps to limit visitors. store page → · open in the atlas → - Fundación Escuela Taller Barichara Barichara, Santander
The Fundación Escuela Taller Barichara preserves the town's traditional building and artisan skills, from ceramics and stone to weaving. It also produces its own line of artisan goods. store page → · open in the atlas → - Galería Duque Arango Medellin / Colombia
Duque Arango is a Medellín gallery representing modern masters and contemporary Latin American artists for collectors and designers. Artworks are bought at its two Poblado-area spaces, DA Gallery and DA Contemporary. store page → · open in the atlas → - Hecho en Jericó Jericó, Antioquia, Colombia
Hecho en Jericó has made carrieles, the tooled leather satchel that originated in this Antioquia town, for more than fifteen years, offering both machine-sewn and hand-stitched options. The workshop also sells wallets, shoulder bags and waist pouches, all 100% Colombian leather. store page → · open in the atlas → - Kibys Medellin / Colombia / Online
Kibys is a Medellín swimwear and resort-wear label offering bikinis, one-pieces, cover-ups and knitted pieces in its own summery prints. Shop online or visit the brand's showroom at Mall Complex Los Balsos. store page → · open in the atlas → - La Palma & El Tucán Zipacón / Colombia
In Zipacón, west of Bogotá, La Palma & El Tucán collapses the distance between farm and cup: since 2012 the same team has grown, fermented, and roasted every lot on its own land, shipping beans within 48 hours of roasting so freshness is never a marketing line but a logistics fact. store page → · open in the atlas → - Librería Lerner Centro & Chapinero, Bogotá
One of Bogotá's longest-running bookshops, Librería Lerner sells across literature, science, the humanities, art and design from its store on Avenida Jiménez in the historic centre and a second on Calle 93. It ships books throughout Colombia from its own online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Luque Carteras y Accesorios Medellin / Colombia / Online
Luque designs and makes handbags and accessories in Medellín, handcrafted by Colombian women, from mini backpacks to structured totes. Pieces are sold through its online store and a physical shop in the Laureles district. store page → · open in the atlas → - Oromo Cafe Libreria Barrio Capri, Cali
Oromo Libreria Editorial opened in southern Cali, Colombia in 2020, pairing used books and craft beer with coffee. The name honors the Oromo people of Ethiopia and their coffee-based conflict-resolution ritual. store page → · open in the atlas → - Pardos Coffee Puente Nacional / Colombia
Pardos Coffee is about as close to single-estate as coffee gets: the Pardo family grows, harvests, and roasts every bag at their own Finca Casa Blanca in Puente Nacional, Santander, with no intermediary between the tree and the roaster. store page → · open in the atlas → - Pergamino Medellin / Colombia / Online
Pergamino grows and sources coffee from small Colombian producers and craft-roasts it in Medellín with full traceability. Fresh beans and gear are sold online and at its many cafés around the city, including the Vía Primavera flagship. store page → · open in the atlas → - Queso del Caquetá Central Florencia
Run under Colombia's first protected cheese denomination of origin, Queso del Caquetá gathers the region's dairy tradition into fresh quesillo, doble crema and salted picado made from Amazon-edge pasture milk. Its Tienda QC counter in central Florencia lets visitors carry home the white cheeses that families here have curdled by hand for generations. store page → · open in the atlas → - The Tea House Bogotá / Colombia
The Tea House opened in Bogotá in December 1990, built around a specific, uphill goal in a country with a deeply rooted coffee culture: introducing Colombians to tea as a category worth its own attention, not an afterthought next to the coffee counter. store page → · open in the atlas → - Varietale Bogotá / Colombia
Varietale mills and roasts specialty coffee sourced directly from named fincas across Huila, Cauca, and Santander, and it puts that sourcing on the label rather than behind it: each bag carries the farm it came from, the altitude it grew at, the varietal — Castillo, Bourbon, Caturra — and the processing method used to bring it to green. store page → · open in the atlas → - Vívolo Café Bogotá / Colombia
Alex Griffith started Vívolo Café as a tribute to his mother, and built it into an operation that spans the full chain — roasting, exporting, and teaching — while working directly with growers scattered across Colombia's mountain regions. store page → · open in the atlas →